The Infanticide Controversy : Primatology and the Art of Field Science /

Infanticide in the natural world might be a relatively rare event, but as Amanda Rees shows, it has enormously significant consequences. Identified in the 1960s as a phenomenon worthy of investigation, infanticide had, by the 1970s, become the focus of serious controversy. The suggestion, by Sarah H...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rees, Amanda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
Temas:
Infanticide in animals.
Primates > Behavior.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
infant, childhood, children, youth, young, babies, controversial, primates, scientific, academic, scholarly, research, sociology, sociologist, nature, natural world, rare, uncommon, consequence, phenomenon, death, murder, parents, interpersonal, relationships, study, reproduction, reproductive, success, contemporary, modern, 21st, 20th, century, history, historical.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: The Infanticide Controversy
  • PART ONE: Fielding the Question
  • ONE. Primates in the Field: Doing Field Science, 1929-74
  • TWO. Studying Primate Societies, 1930-74
  • PART TWO: The Infanticide Debates
  • THREE. Infanticide's Infancy
  • FOUR. From Controversy to Consensus? 1974-84
  • FIVE. Controversy Resurgent
  • PART THREE: Questioning the Field
  • SIX. Accounting for Infanticide, 2001-3
  • SEVEN. Controversy and Authority, Narrative and Testimony
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX: Infanticide Interviews, 2002-3
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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