Primatology on Display

Authors

  • Benjamin H Moss Louisiana State University

Abstract

This is a review of Nicholas Langlitz's Chimpanzee Culture Wars.  The book is an ethnographic account that assesses the culture of primate researchers in their quest to determine if chimpanzees truly have culture.  Chimpanzee Culture Wars is a compiliation of participant observations, interviews, and philosophical debate on epistomology of primate research and the ontology of being human.

Author Biography

Benjamin H Moss, Louisiana State University

I am a doctoral student at the Louisiana State Univeristy Department of Geography and Anthropology.

References

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. The Savage Mind. University of Chicago Press, 1966.

Clifford, James. "On ethnographic authority." Representations 2 (1983): 118-146, https://doi.org/10.2307/2928386

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Published

2021-09-20

Issue

Vol 7, No 1 (2021)

Section

Reviews

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