Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender, and SocietyShirley C. Strum, Linda Marie Fedigan 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 |
Contents
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 |
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