Chimpanzee culture wars : rethinking human nature alongside Japanese, European, and American cultural primatologists /

"Do apes share with humans the capacity to acquire qualities not inherent in their nature? Debates within the field of primatology over the last century keep coming back to this fundamental question, which compels us to reexamine our understanding of culture and of the nature-culture divide. Th...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Langlitz, Nicolas, 1975- (Auteur)
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press [2020]
Online toegang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvz0h8ss
Inhoudsopgave:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Birth of Cultural Primatology from the Spirit of Japanese Uniqueness
  • 2. Multiculturalism beyond the Human
  • 3. Chimpanzee Ethnography
  • 4. Controlling for Pongoland
  • 5. Japanese Syntheses
  • 6. Field Experiments with a Totem Animal
  • 7. Salvage Primatology
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index