Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender, and Society

Strum, Shirley C.

ISBN 10: 0226777553 / ISBN 13: 9780226777559

Published by University of Chicago Press, 2000

About this Item

635p. Bright pages are highlighted and notated through the last half of the book, text is still legible. Binding is tight, spine is unbroken. Covers are glossy and pointed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender, and Society
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226777553
• ISBN 13: 9780226777559
• Binding: 8Vo Softcover
• Condition: Acceptable
• Seller catalogs:
  • SCIENCE
  • SOCIOLOGY

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Shirley C. Strum is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She is coeditor of The New Physical Anthropology, Natural Connections: Perspectives in Community-Based Conservation, and Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons. Strum has studied olive baboons in Kenya since 1972 and is director of the Uaso Ngiro Baboon Project.


Linda Marie Fedigan is professor and Canada Research Chair in Primatology and Bioanthropology at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is also the past Executive Editor of the American Journal of Primatology and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.