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This new, second edition of
Primate Ethnographies: Fieldwork from Across the Globe is a collection of first-person accounts of immersive field studies of primates, people, and institutions. It is of interest to students of Primatology, Anthropology, Wildlife Ecology, Zoology, Conservation Biology, and Science/Nature Writing.
List of contents
Foreword
Preface List of Contributors Introduction to Primate Ethnographies
PART I: SOUTH AMERICA Map 1: Locations of South American field sites Chapter 1: The World's Most Peaceful Primate Chapter 2: Uncovering the Behavioral Diversity of Capuchin Monkeys across Brazilian Biomes Chapter 3: Voices of the Forest: Guides in my Journey through Primatology and Conservation Chapter 4: Adventure and Adaptation in the Amazon and Moonlight in the Argentinean Chaco Chapter 6: From Human to Non-human Primates Feeding Ecology
PART II: AFRICA and MADAGASCAR Map 2: Locations of African and Madagascar Field Sites Chapter 7: Blue Monkeys and Bridges: Ongoing Transformations in Habituation, Habitat, and People Chapter 8: Lessons Learned from the Lives of Chimpanzees Chapter 9: Studying Apes in a Human Landscape Chapter 10: Lemurs on the Edge
PART III: ASIA Map 3: Locations of Asian Field Sites Chapter 11: There's a Monkey in My Kitchen (and I Like It): Fieldwork with Macaques in Bali and Beyond Chapter 12: The Heart of the Forest: Community Voices and Gibbon Songs Chapter 13: The Monkey That I Became Chapter 14: Chronicles of an Accidental Primatologist Chapter 15: Anthropogenic Histories, Affective Geographies: The Macaques of Urban India
About the author
Karen B. Strier is Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She is a biological anthropologist and an authority on the Critically Endangered northern muriqui of Brazil. She founded the Projeto Muriqui de Caratinga in 1983. She is also the author of
Primate Behavioral Ecology, 6th Edition (Routledge, 2021).
