Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender, and Society

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Shirley C. Strum, Linda Marie Fedigan
University of Chicago Press, 2000 - Всего страниц: 635
A provocative collective reflection on primatology and its relations to broader cultural, historical, and social issues, Primate Encounters brings together both scientists and those who study them to investigate precisely what kind of science primatology is.

"[A] fascinating study . . . on how and why ideas about primate society have changed. The volume consists of dialogues among scientists from different disciplines, national traditions, scientific culture, generations, standpoints, and genders. . . . A wonderful reflection on the discipline of primatology and on science in general."—Science Books and Films

"Primate Encounters should be required reading for anyone about to embark on a career in the field. But it equally valuable for its miscellany of opinions, recollections and off-the-cuff remarks, as well as for its thoughtful observations, 'outrageous ravings' and humour (from the elders in the field). It gives us a glimpse of how scientists work together to understand their place in the world."—Deborah L. Mazolillo, Times Literary Supplement
 

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Changing Views of Primate Society A Situated North American View
5
WHAT DO THE PIONEERS SAY? THE ADVANTAGES OF HINDSIGHT
53
A Few Peculiar Primates
59
The Bad Old Days of Primatology?
73
Piltdown Man The Father of American Field Primatology
87
Some Reflections on Primatology at Cambridge and the Science Studies Debate
106
Primate Ethology and Socioecology in the Netherlands
118
Why Study Primates? Did our ideas about primate society change? How do ideas change?
140
Changing Views on Imitation in Primates
296
Did Sociobiology make a difference in our ideas about primate society? Did Woman studying primates make a difference?
310
SECTION 5 MODELS OF SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
321
Primate Suspect Some Varieties of Science Studies
329
A WellArticulated Primatology Reflections of a FellowTraveller
358
Women Gender and Science Some Parallels between Primatology and Developmental Biology
382
Morphing in the Order Flexible Strategies Feminist Science Studies and Primate Revisions
398
Life in the Field The Sensuous Body as Popular Naturalists Guide
421

OTHER NATIONAL TRADITIONS
147
Traditions of the Kyoto School of Field Primatology in Japan
153
Negotiating Science Internationalization and Japanese Primatology
165
Some Characteristics of Scientific Literature in Brazilian Primatology
184
An American Primatologist Abroad in Brazil
194
Why do Westerners accept Japanese data but not theory and practice? Are there many primatologies or one international science?
208
ENLARGING THE LENS CLOSELY RELATED DISCIPLINES
215
The Divergent Case of Cultural Anthropology
223
Standpoint MattersIn Archaeology for Example
243
Paradigms and Primates Batemans Principle Passive Females and Perspectives from Other Taxa
261
Culture Disciplinary Tradition and the Study of Behavior Sex Rats and Spotted Hyenas
275
Politics Gender and Worldly Primatology The GoodallFossey Nexus
436
The fight about sciencewhy does it happen? Primatologists and the mediawhy do primatologists agonize about it?
463
REFORMULATING THE QUESTIONS
473
Science Encounters
475
Gender Encounters
498
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
521
Implications Future Encounters the Media and Science Gender and Science on the Periphery the Science Wars The Value of Primate Studies The futu...
523
References
541
Contributors
619
Index
623
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