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Author Strier, Karen B

Title Primate Ethnographies
Published Old Tappan : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (267 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; List of Contributors; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1 Primate Ethnographies: The Biological and Cultural Dimensions of Field Primatology; PART II: STARTING OUT; 2 There and Back Again: A Primatologist's Tale; 3 Moonlit Walks: A Serendipitous Journey from Baboons and Chimpanzees to Nocturnal Primates; 4 The Lure of Lemurs to an Anthropologist; 5 On the Ground Looking Up; 6 Learning to Become a Monkey; PART III: SOCIAL COMPLEXITIES; 7 The Accidental Primatologist: My Encounters with Pygmy Marmosets and Cotton-Top Tamarins
8 Of Monkeys, Moonlight, and Monogamy in the Argentinean Chaco9 Stress in the Wilds; 10 Baboon Mechanics; 11 The Graceful Asian Ape; PART IV: COMPARATIVE LENSES; 12 Studying Lemurs on Three Continents; 13 A Tale of Two Monkeys; 14 There's a Monkey in My Kitchen (and I Like It): Fieldwork with Macaques in Bali and Beyond; 15 Gorillas Across Time and Space; 16 Chimpanzee Reunion; PART V: CHANGES WITH TIME; 17 Questions My Mother Asked Me: An Inside View of a Thirty-Year Primate Project in a Costa Rican National Park; 18 Male Bands in the Amazonian Rainforest
19 Blue Monkeys and Bridges: Transformations in Habituation, Habitat, and People20 The Evolution of a Conservation Biologist; 21 Studying Apes in a Human Landscape; Appendix: Tables of Cross-Referenced Regions, Species, and Key Topics and Concepts; Index
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ISBN 9781317345176
1317345177