Editors:
- First comprehensive volume on the ethnoprimatology of the tropical Americas
- Covers a unique, large geographical spectrum with manuscripts from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela
- Explores a wide range of topics from mythology and cosmology to hunting practices and primates as pets
Part of the book series: Ethnobiology (EBL)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mesoamerica
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South America
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About this book
Ethnoprimatology is situated at the intersection between the biological and cultural subfields of anthropology. Research on the interface between human and nonhuman primates has been steadily increasing since 1997, when the term ethnoprimatology was first coined. Although there have been studies on human–nonhuman primate interactions in the tropical Americas, no single comprehensive volume has been published that integrates this information to fully understand it in this region. Eighteen novel chapters written by outstanding scholars with various backgrounds are included in this edited volume. They refer to the complex interconnections between different indigenous peoples with New World monkeys that sympatrically share their ancestral territories. Geographically, the range covers all of the Neotropics, from southern Mexico through northern Argentina. This work includes topics such as primates as prey and food, ethnozoology/ethnoecology, cosmology, narratives about monkeys, uses of primates, monkeys as pets, and ethnoclassification. Multiple views as well as diverse theoretical and methodological approaches are found within the pages. In sum, this is a compendium of ethnoprimatological research that will be prized by anthropologists, ethnobiologists, primatologists, conservationists, and zoologists alike.
“This book… provides a historical benchmark for all subsequent research in ethnoprimatology in the Neotropics and beyond.”
— Leslie E. Sponsel, University of Hawai´i at Mānoa.
Editors and Affiliations
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Centro de Antropología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela
Bernardo Urbani
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Department of Botany and Environmental Studies Program, Connecticut College, New London, USA
Manuel Lizarralde
About the editors
Manuel Lizarralde is an Associate Professor at the Department of Botany and Environmental Studies Program at Connecticut College. His principal research focus is the botanical and ecological knowledge of indigenous peoples of the tropical rainforest. His research focus is the Barí people of Venezuela with 34 months of fieldwork over the last 29 years. He has also done ethnobotanical research with the Matsigenka of Peru and is the author of an index and map of South American indigenous languages.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neotropical Ethnoprimatology
Book Subtitle: Indigenous Peoples’ Perceptions of and Interactions with Nonhuman Primates
Editors: Bernardo Urbani, Manuel Lizarralde
Series Title: Ethnobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27504-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27503-7Published: 24 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27506-8Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27504-4Published: 23 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2365-7553
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7561
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 396
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biodiversity, Systems Biology, Plant Sciences, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Ethnology, Social Anthropology