Primates in the Real World : Escaping Primate Folklore and Creating Primate Science /

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"The opening of this vital new book centers on a series of graves memorializing baboons killed near Amboseli National Park in Kenya in 2009--a stark image that emphasizes both the close emotional connection between primate researchers and their subjects and the intensely human qualities of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Montgomery, Georgina M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Primates > Research.
Primates > Behavior > Research.
NATURE > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Mammals.
NATURE > Animals > Mammals.
Primates > Moeurs et comportement > Recherche > Histoire.
Primates > Recherche > Histoire.
Primates > Recherche sur le terrain > Histoire.
Primates > Behavior > Research > History.
Primates > Research > History.
Primates > Fieldwork > History.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Separating fact from fiction
  • Venturing out of the lab and into the wild: early primate field studies
  • Control, repetition, and objectivity: turning field observation into a science
  • Capturing natural behavior: changing definitions of "natural" in mid-twentieth-century primate studies
  • Modern primatology: the emergence of long-term international field projects
  • Inclusion and indigenous researchers: the Africanization of the Amboseli Baboon Project.

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