Karen B. Strier

Primate Ethnographies (eBook, PDF)

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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
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317345176
• Artikelnr.: 44755364

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

PART I: INTRODUCTION 1.Primate Ethnographies: The Biological and Cultural
Dimensions of Field Primatology     By Karen B. Strier PART II: STARTING
OUT 2.There and Back Again: A Primatologist's Tale     By Jim Moore
3.Moonlit Walks: A Serendipitous Journey from Baboons and Chimpanzees to
Nocturnal Primates     By Leanne T. Nash 4. The Lure of Lemurs to an
Anthropologist     By Robert W. Sussman 5. On the Ground Looking Up     By
Kenneth Glander 6. Learning to Become a Monkey     By Michael A. Huffman
PART III: SOCIAL COMPLEXITIES 7.TheAccidental Primatologist: My Encounters
with Pygmy Marmosets and Cotton-top Tamarins     By Charles T. Snowdon 8.
Of Monkeys, Moonlight, and Monogamy in the Argentinean Chaco     By Eduardo
Fernandez-Duque 9. Stress in the Wilds     By Jacinta C. Beehner and Thore
J. Bergman 10. Baboon Mechanics     By S. Peter Henzi and Louise Barrett
11. The Graceful Asian Ape     By Ulrich H. Reichard PART IV: COMPARATIVE
LENSES 12. Studying Lemurs on Three Continents     By Peter M. Kappeler 13.
A Tale of Two Monkeys     By Stephen F. Ferrari 14. There's a Monkey in my
Kitchen (and I Like It): Fieldwork with Macaques in Bali and Beyond     By
Agustín Fuentes 15. Gorillas Across Time and Space     By Martha M. Robbins
16. Chimpanzee Reunion     By Craig Stanford PART V: CHANGES WITH TIME 17.
QuestionsMy Mother Asked Me: An Inside View of a Thirty-Year Primate
Project in a Costa Rican National Park     By Linda Marie Fedigan 18. Male
Bands in the Amazonian Rainforest     By Anthony Di Fiore 19. Blue Monkeys
and Bridges: Transformations in Habituation, Habitat and People     By
Marina Cords 20. The Evolution of a Conservation Biologist     By Colin A.
Chapman 21. Studying Apes in a Human Landscape     By Jill D. Pruetz
APPENDIX: Tables of Cross-Referenced Regions, Species, and Key Topics and
Concepts