Karen B. Strier

Primate Ethnographies (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Applies an ethnographic perspective to the study of primatesPrimate Ethnographies, 1/e is a collection of first-person accounts of immersive field studies of primates, people, and institutions, revealing the wide spectrum of primate science (primatology). Essays cover such primates as lemurs, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes. Readers experience the excitement of discovery and the challenges of primate field research. Primate Ethnographies can be used as a textbook or a companion reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317345169
• Artikelnr.: 44755100

Autorenporträt

Karen B. Strier is Vilas Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1980, she received her MA and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1981 and 1986, respectively. She is an international authority on the endangered northern muriqui monkey, which she has been studying in the Brazilian Atlantic forest since 1982. Her pioneering research has been critical to conservation efforts on behalf of this species, and has been influential in broadening comparative perspectives on primate behavioral and ecological diversity. Her contributions have been recognized by her election as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and as a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the recipient of an Honorary Degree (Doctorate of Science) from the University of Chicago and the Distinguished Primatologist Awards from both the American Primatological Society and the Midwestern Primate Interest Group. She has received various awards from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including the Graduate School's faculty research awards series, a Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, and a Hilldale Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Service. She has also been honored with a Lifetime Honorary Membership to the Brazilian Primatological Society. Before joining the faculty at UW-Madison in 1989, she was a Lecturer in Anthropology at Harvard University and an assistant professor at Beloit College. She has served as an elected member and officer on the executive committees of professional societies and on the editorial boards of major journals in the field. She has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications, including two single-authored books, Faces in the Forest: The Endangered Muriqui Monkeys of Brazil (Harvard University Press) and Primate Behavioral Ecology, 4th edition (Pearson), a leading textbook in the field.

Inhaltsangabe

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