Wild Cultures - A Comparison Between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures

Zusatztext 'Remarkable findings ?' Times Literary Supplement Informationen zum Autor Christophe Boesch is Professor and Director of the Department of Primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. He has studied the chimpanzees of Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire for the last thirty-three years and those of Loango National Park in Gabon for six years. The author of two published books and the founding president of the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, he fights for a better future for the remaining wild ape populations at a grassroots level. Klappentext A journey into the lives of chimpanzees, revealing the many parallels and differences between us. Zusammenfassung Chimpanzees from different regions of Africa do things differently! as do humans from different countries. The question of why highlights the debate about culture. Wild Cultures takes readers into the lives of chimpanzees. This journey reveals many parallels between humans and chimpanzees and points to striking differences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Studying culture in the wild; 2. From human culture to wild culture; 3. Shaping nature into home: about material culture; 4. One for all and all for one: about social culture; 5. I want to have sex with you: about symbolic culture; 6. Learning culture: from pupils to teachers; 7. Dead or alive? Towards a notion of death and empathy; 8. Wild culture - wild intelligence; 9. Uniquely chimpanzee - uniquely human; Epilogue: will we have the time to study chimpanzee culture?; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Christophe Boesch, Boesch Christophe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2012
• EAN: 9781107025370
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02537-0
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 255 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; Evolution, Anthropology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology, Animal behaviour, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology & anthropology, Animal Ecology, Zoology and animal sciences, Physical anthropology, Primates, Zoology: primates (primatology)