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.
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.
