<p><b>The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of culture</b></p> <p>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 doo
Chimpanzee Culture Wars
✍ Scribed by Nicolas Langlitz
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✦ Table of Contents
Cover
Contents
Preface
Prologue
Introduction
1. The Birth of Cultural Primatology from the Spirit of Japanese Uniqueness
2. Multiculturalism beyond the Human
3. Chimpanzee Ethnography
4. Controlling for Pongoland
5. Japanese Syntheses
6. Field Experiments with a Totem Animal
7. Salvage Primatology
Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
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