Primate Ethnographies

Karen B. Strier is Vilas Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1980, she received her MA and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1981 and 1986, respectively.  She is an international authority on the endangered northern muriqui monkey, which she has been studying in the Brazilian Atlantic forest since 1982.  Her pioneering research has been critical to conservation efforts on behalf of this species, and has been influential in broadening comparative perspectives on primate behavioral and ecological diversity.  Her contributions have been recognized by her election as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and as a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  She is the recipient of an Honorary Degree (Doctorate of Science) from the University of Chicago and the Distinguished Primatologist Awards from both the American Primatological Society and the Midwestern Primate Interest Group.  She has received various awards from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including the Graduate School’s faculty research awards series, a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and a Hilldale Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Service.  She has also been honored with a Lifetime Honorary Membership to the Brazilian Primatological Society.  Before joining the faculty at UW-Madison in 1989, she was a Lecturer in Anthropology at Harvard University and an assistant professor at Beloit College.  She has served as an elected member and officer on the executive committees of professional societies and on the editorial boards of major journals in the field.  She has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications, including two single-authored books, Faces in the Forest: The Endangered Muriqui Monkeys of Brazil (Harvard University Press) and Primate Behavioral Ecology, 4th edition (Pearson), a leading textbook in the field.

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1. Primate Ethnographies: The Biological and Cultural Dimensions of Field Primatology

 By Karen B. Strier

 

PART II: STARTING OUT

2. There and Back Again: A Primatologist’s Tale

 By Jim Moore

3. Moonlit Walks: A Serendipitous Journey from Baboons and Chimpanzees to Nocturnal Primates

 By Leanne T. Nash

4. The Lure of Lemurs to an Anthropologist

 By Robert W. Sussman

5. On the Ground Looking Up

 By Kenneth Glander

6. Learning to Become a Monkey

 By Michael A. Huffman



PART III: SOCIAL COMPLEXITIES

7. The Accidental Primatologist: My Encounters with Pygmy Marmosets and Cotton-top Tamarins

 By Charles T. Snowdon

8. Of Monkeys, Moonlight, and Monogamy in the Argentinean Chaco

 By Eduardo Fernandez-Duque

9. Stress in the Wilds

 By Jacinta C. Beehner and Thore J. Bergman

10. Baboon Mechanics

 By S. Peter Henzi and Louise Barrett

11. The Graceful Asian Ape

 By Ulrich H. Reichard



PART IV: COMPARATIVE LENSES

12. Studying Lemurs on Three Continents

 By Peter M. Kappeler

13. A Tale of Two Monkeys

 By Stephen F. Ferrari

14. There’s a Monkey in my Kitchen (and I Like It): Fieldwork with Macaques in Bali and Beyond

 By Agustín Fuentes

15. Gorillas Across Time and Space

 By Martha M. Robbins

16. Chimpanzee Reunion

 By Craig Stanford

 

PART V: CHANGES WITH TIME

17. Questions My Mother Asked Me: An Inside View of a Thirty-Year Primate Project in a Costa Rican National Park

 By Linda Marie Fedigan

18. Male Bands in the Amazonian Rainforest

 By Anthony Di Fiore

19. Blue Monkeys and Bridges: Transformations in Habituation, Habitat and People

 By Marina Cords

20. The Evolution of a Conservation Biologist

 By Colin A. Chapman

21. Studying Apes in a Human Landscape

 By Jill D. Pruetz

 

APPENDIX: Tables of Cross-Referenced Regions, Species, and Key Topics and Concepts