Chimpanzee Culture Wars (eBook)

Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists

Nicolas Langlitz (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691204260 (ISBN)

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The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of cultureIn the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and passed on new food-washing behaviors within their troop. The discovery opened the door to a startling question: Could animals other than humans share social knowledge-and thus possess culture? The subsequent debate has rocked the scientific world, pitting cultural anthropologists against evolutionary anthropologists, field biologists against experimental psychologists, and scholars from Asia against their colleagues in Europe and North America. In Chimpanzee Culture Wars, the first ethnographic account of the battle, anthropologist Nicolas Langlitz presents first-hand observations gleaned from months spent among primatologists on different sides of the controversy.Langlitz travels across continents, from field stations in the Ivory Coast and Guinea to laboratories in Germany and Japan. As he compares the methods and arguments of the different researchers he meets, he also considers the plight of cultural primatologists as they seek to document chimpanzee cultural diversity during the Anthropocene, an era in which human culture is remaking the planet. How should we understand the chimpanzee culture wars in light of human-caused mass extinctions?Capturing the historical, anthropological, and philosophical nuances of the debate, Chimpanzee Culture Wars takes us on an exhilarating journey into high-tech laboratories and breathtaking wilderness, all in pursuit of an answer to the question of the human-animal divide.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.9.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 20 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Anecdote • animal culture • Animal Studies • Animal testing • Anthropocentrism • anthropologist • anthropology of science • Anthropomorphism • Baboon • Behavioural Sciences • biodiversity • Biological Anthropology • biologist • Biology • Bonobo • camera trap • Charles Darwin • Chimpanzee • chimpanzee culture • chimpanzee ethnography • Christophe Boesch • Common chimpanzee • comparative psychology • Cultural Anthropology • Cultural diversity • Cultural Evolution • Culture • culture war • Darwinism • Dian Fossey • dichotomy • DONNA HARAWAY • Ecology • ecosystem • epistemic cultures • ethnography • Ethnology • Ethnoprimatology • Ethology • Evolutionary anthropology • Evolutionary Theory • Experiment • experimental psychology • Explanation • Fatalism • female • Field Experiment • field research • Fieldwork • foraging • Frans de Waal • Habituation • History of Science • Holism • Human • human behavior • Human nature • human subject research • infanticide • Infanticide (zoology) • Jane Goodall • Japanese macaque • Japanese primatology • Kyoto School • Kyoto University Primate Research Institute • learning • Macaque • Marshall Sahlins • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology • Max Planck Society • Methodology • Michael Tomasello • Modernity • Monograph • Moral Economy • Morality • Multiculturalism • multispecies ethnography • narrative • Naturalism • Naturalistic observation • Nature and culture • observational learning • participant observation • Philosopher • Philosophical Anthropology • philosophy of science • Population Genetics • Positivism • primate • Primate Research Institute • primatology • Psychology • Racism • Ratchet Effect • Research Program • Robert Yerkes • Science • Science Studies • science wars • Scientist • skepticism • Social Anthropology • Social Science • Sociobiology • Sociocultural evolution • Sociology • Sue Savage-Rumbaugh • Symbolic culture • Technology • Termite • Tetsuro Matsuzawa • Thomas Kuhn • Thought • Tim Ingold • Zoology
• ISBN-13: 9780691204260 / 9780691204260