Book ID: CBB054916365

Chimpanzee Culture Wars (2020)

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In 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.

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Review Emily M. Kern (2022) Review of "Chimpanzee Culture Wars". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 127-129). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Blum, Deborah L.
De Waal, Frans B. M.
Etkind, Alexander
Kimler, William C.
Levallois, Clement
Montgomery, Georgina Mary
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Biology and Philosophy
Publishers
Duke University Press
Harvard University Press
Houghton Mifflin
Perseus
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Animal behavior
Primates
Animal psychology
Controversies and disputes
Physical anthropology
Experimental psychology
People
Harlow, Harry Frederick
Carpenter, Clarence Ray
Hamilton, William Donald
Ivanov, Il'ia Ivanovich
Leroi-Gourhan, André
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
Guinea
Paris (France)
Senegal
Soviet Union
France
Institutions
Pastoría (Institut Pasteur of French Guinea)
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