Chimpanzee Culture Wars : : Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists /

Chimpanzee Culture Wars : : Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists / / Nicolas Langlitz.

The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of cultureIn the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and passed on new food-washing behaviors within their troop. The discovery opened the door to a startling q...

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Langlitz, Nicolas,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 20 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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