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Wild Cultures : a Comparison between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures.
A journey into the lives of chimpanzees, revealing the many parallels and differences between us.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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- Cover; Wild Cultures: A Comparison Between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; And the culture war started ... ; Chimpanzee ethnography to uncover culture; Cultural biases and scientific progress; 1 Studying culture in the wild; To study animals, all you need is love; First steps towards chimpanzee culture; Gombe National Park, Tanzania, May 1992; Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, October 1989; About animals, ignorance, and anthropocentrism; Time to realize that Descartes got it wrong; Synopsis.
- 2 From human culture to wild cultureCulture and ecology in humans; Different approaches to culture; Animal ethnography to expose animal cultures; Imo, the cultural innovator; Social transmission of cultural traits; The paradox of studying "culture outside of culture"; Animal cultures to learn about human cultures; Synopsis; 3 Shaping nature into home About material culture; Taï Forest, December 1990; Tool makers in evolution; Material culture shapes one's own world; Technology boosts chimpanzee cultural ethnography; Cumulative cultural evolution in chimpanzees.
- When culture and environment mixMaterial culture in other species; History of material culture: chimpanzee Stone Age; Contribution to the cultural debate; Synopsis; 4 One for all and all for one About social culture; Taï Forest, September 1976; Taï Forest, October 1992; Gombe National Park, Tanzania, April 1992; Hunting cultures in chimpanzees; Cooperation: acting at the same time or acting together?; Cooperation in high-risk situations; Cultural altruism in chimpanzees; Social niche construction in animals; Contribution to the cultural debate; Synopsis.
- 5 I want to have sex with you About symbolic cultureMahale chimpanzees, Mahale National Park, Tanzania, September 19991; Taï chimpanzees, November 1991; Gombe chimpanzees, June 1992; Arbitrary social conventions in chimpanzees; Mahale chimpanzees, Mahale National Park, Tanzania, September 1999; Taï chimpanzees, November 1991; Gombe chimpanzees, June 1992; Innovation and transmission of inventions; Social transmission of symbolic cultural traits; Symbolic culture and social conventions in other animal species; Contribution to the culture debate; Synopsis.
- 6 Learning culture: from pupils to teachersTaï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, 12 February 1986; Cultural acquisition in the natural world; Mothers as the main culture vehicle; Teaching styles differ across chimpanzee and human cultures; Hadzaland, Tanzania, July 2011; Learning one's own social culture; Contribution to the culture debate; Synopsis; 7 Dead or alive? Towards a notion of death and empathy; Taï Forest, 8 March 1989; Taï Forest, 23-24 March 1991; Understanding of death in humans and other animals; Mourning and compassion around death in chimpanzees; Taï Forest, 31 May-1 June 1994.