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Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists
Hardback
Main Details
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Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Nicolas Langlitz
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:352 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 156 |
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| Category/Genre | Primates |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780691204277
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| Classifications | Dewey:599.885156 |
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| Illustrations |
20 b/w illus.
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Princeton University Press
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| Imprint |
Princeton University Press
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| Publication Date |
8 September 2020 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of culture 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 door to a startling question: Could animals other than humans share
Author Biography
Nicolas Langlitz is associate professor of anthropology at the New School for Social Research. His books include Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain. Twitter @NicolasLanglitz
Reviews"Langlitz has woven together an unprecedented and maximally diverse set of strands in seeking to explain what is cultural primatology. . . . The result of this intellectual weaving is a Bayeux Tapestry of cultural primatology."---William C. McGrew, Primates
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