Christophe Boesch: Wild Cultures

Cover: 9781107689152 | Wild Cultures | A Comparison Between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures

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Beschreibung

How do chimpanzees say, 'I want to have sex with you?' By clipping a leaf or knocking on a tree trunk? How do they eat live aggressive ants? By using a short stick with one hand or long stick with both? Ivorian and Tanzanian chimpanzees answer these questions differently, as would humans from France and China if asked how they eat rice. Christophe Boesch takes readers into the lives of chimpanzees from different African regions, highlighting the debate about culture. His ethnography reveals how simple techniques have evolved into complex ones, how teaching styles differ, how material culture widens access to new food sources and how youngsters learn culture. This journey reveals many parallels between humans and chimpanzees and points to striking differences. Written in a vivid and accessible style, Wild Cultures places the reader in social and ecological contexts that shed light on our twin cultures.

Über den Autor

Christophe Boesch is Professor and Director of the Department of Primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. He has studied the chimpanzees of Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire for the last thirty-three years and those of Loango National Park in Gabon for six years. The author of two published books and the founding president of the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, he fights for a better future for the remaining wild ape populations at a grassroots level.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Studying culture in the wild; 2. From human culture to wild culture; 3. Shaping nature into home: about material culture; 4. One for all and all for one: about social culture; 5. I want to have sex with you: about symbolic culture; 6. Learning culture: from pupils to teachers; 7. Dead or alive? Towards a notion of death and empathy; 8. Wild culture - wild intelligence; 9. Uniquely chimpanzee - uniquely human; Epilogue: will we have the time to study chimpanzee culture?; References; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Fachbereich:	Zoologie
Genre:	Biologie , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781107689152
ISBN-10:	1107689155
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Boesch, Christophe
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	244 x 170 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Christophe Boesch
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.08.2013
Gewicht:	0,508 kg