Primate Ethnographies: Fieldwork from Across the Globe

by Karen B. Strier (Editor)

Overview

This new, second edition of Primate Ethnographies: Fieldwork from Across the Globe is a collection of first-person accounts of immersive field studies of primates, people, and institutions, revealing the excitement of studying wild primates and the multi-faceted challenges involved in conducting field research.

This collection of essays spans the diversity of the Primate Order, from lemurs, to monkeys and apes. The ethnographic accounts are written by experts whose diverse backgrounds and experiences reveal the broader nature of the primatological field experience and provide glimpses into the many different pathways one can follow into the field of contemporary primatology. This new edition features updated chapters from original contributors, as well as new voices from across the global north and south representing cutting edge scholarship in the field. Collectively, these essays provide insights into the driving concerns of field primatology as it is practiced across the world.

Primate Ethnographies: Fieldwork from Across the Globe is of interest to students from fields across the academy including Primatology, Anthropology, Wildlife Ecology, Zoology, Conservation Biology, and Science/Nature Writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032372693
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/29/2025
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Foreword  Preface  List of Contributors  Introduction to Primate Ethnographies  PART I: SOUTH AMERICA   Map 1: Locations of South American field sites  Chapter 1: The World’s Most Peaceful Primate  Chapter 2: Uncovering the Behavioral Diversity of Capuchin Monkeys across Brazilian Biomes  Chapter 3: Voices of the Forest: Guides in my Journey through Primatology and Conservation  Chapter 4: Adventure and Adaptation in the Amazon and Moonlight in the Argentinean Chaco  Chapter 6: From Human to Non-human Primates Feeding Ecology  PART II: AFRICA and MADAGASCAR  Map 2: Locations of African and Madagascar Field Sites  Chapter 7: Blue Monkeys and Bridges: Ongoing Transformations in Habituation, Habitat, and People  Chapter 8: Lessons Learned from the Lives of Chimpanzees  Chapter 9: Studying Apes in a Human Landscape  Chapter 10: Lemurs on the Edge  PART III: ASIA  Map 3: Locations of Asian Field Sites  Chapter 11: There’s a Monkey in My Kitchen (and I Like It): Fieldwork with Macaques in Bali and Beyond  Chapter 12: The Heart of the Forest: Community Voices and Gibbon Songs  Chapter 13: The Monkey That I Became  Chapter 14: Chronicles of an Accidental Primatologist  Chapter 15: Anthropogenic Histories, Affective Geographies: The Macaques of Urban India