2nd Edition
Primate Ethnographies Fieldwork from Across the Globe
List of Figures and Maps
List of Contributors
Foreword by Patricia C. Wright
Preface to the Second Edition by Karen B. Strier
Introduction to Primate Ethnographies by Karen B. Strier
PART I: SOUTH AMERICA
Chapter 1: The World’s Most Peaceful Primate
Karen B. Strier
Chapter 2: Uncovering the Behavioral Diversity of Capuchin Monkeys across Brazilian Biomes
Patrícia Izar
Chapter 3: Voices of the Forest: Guides in My Journey through Primatology and Conservation
Stella de la Torre
Chapter 4: Adventure and Adaptation in the Amazon
Anthony Di Fiore and Kristin Phillips
Chapter 5: Of Monkey Fathers, Monogamy and Moonlight in the Argentinean Chaco
Eduardo Fernandez-Duque
Chapter 6: From Human to Non-Human Primates Feeding Ecology
Eleonore Zulnara Freire Setz
PART II: AFRICA and MADAGASCAR
Chapter 7: Blue Monkeys and Bridges: Ongoing Transformations in Habituation, Habitat, and People
Marina Cords
Chapter 8: Lessons Learned from the Lives of Chimpanzees
Zarin P. Machanda
Chapter 9: Studying Apes in a Human Landscape
Jill D. Pruetz
Chapter 10: Lemurs on the Edge
Timothy M. Eppley
PART III: ASIA
Chapter 11: There’s a Monkey in My Kitchen (and I Like It): Fieldwork with Macaques in Bali and Beyond
Agustín Fuentes
Chapter 12: The Heart of the Forest: Community Voices and Gibbon Songs
Rahayu Oktaviani
Chapter 13: The Monkey That I Became
Michael A. Huffman
Chapter 14: Chronicles of an Accidental Primatologist
Ramesh ‘Zimbo’ Boonratana
Chapter 15: Anthropogenic Histories, Affective Geographies: The Macaques of Urban India
Anindya Sinha
Biography
Karen B. Strier is Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She is a biological anthropologist and an authority on the Critically Endangered northern muriqui of Brazil. She founded the Projeto Muriqui de Caratinga in 1983. She is also the author of Primate Behavioral Ecology, 6th Edition (Routledge, 2021).
