Primate Encounters - Models of Science, Gender & Society

Preface xi SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY 1(50) Changing Views of Primate Society: A Situated North American Perspective 3(48) Shirley C. Strum Linda M. Fedigan SECTION 2 WHAT DO THE PIONEERS SAY? THE ADVANTAGES OF HINDSIGHT 51(94) A Few Peculiar Primates 57(14) Thelma Rowell The Bad Old Days of Primatology? 71(14) Alison Jolly Piltdown Man, the Father of American Field Primatology 85(19) Robert W. Sussman Some-Reflections on Primatology at Cambridge and the Science Studies Debate 104(12) Robert A. Hinde Primate Ethology and Socioecology in the Netherlands 116(29) Jan A.R.A.M. van Hooff E-Mail Exchanges: Why study primates? Did our ideas about primate society change? How do ideas change? 138(7) SECTION 3 A DIVERSITY OF PRIMATOLOGIES: OTHER NATIONAL TRADITIONS 145(70) Traditions of the Kyoto School of Field Primatology in Japan 151(14) Hiroyuki Takasaki Negotiating Science: Internationalization and Japanese Primatology 165(19) Pamela Asquith Some Characteristics of Scientific Literature in Brazilian Primatology 184(10) Maria Emilia Yamamoto Anuska Irene Alencar An American Primatologist Abroad in Brazil 194(21) Karen B. Strier E-Mail Exchanges: Why do Westerners accept Japanese data but not theory and practice? Are there many primatologies or one international science? 208(7) SECTION 4 ENLARGING THE LENS: CLOSELY RELATED DISCIPLINES 215(106) The Divergent Case of Cultural Anthropology 223(20) Naomi Quinn Standpoint Matters---in Archaeology, for Example 243(18) Alison Wylie Paradigms and Primates: Bateman's Principle, Passive Females, and Perspecties from Other Taxa 261(14) Zuleyma Tang-Martinez Culture, Disciplinary Tradition, and the Study of Behavior: Sex, Rats, and Spotted Hyenas 275(21) Stephen E. Glickman Changing Views on Imitation in Primates 296(25) Richard W. Byrne E-Mail Exchanges: Did sociobiology make a difference in our ideas about primate society? Did women studying primates make a difference? 310(11) SECTION 5 MODELS OF SCIENCE AND SOCIETY 321(152) Primate Suspect: Some Varieties of Science Studies 329(29) Charis M. Thompson Cussins A Well-Articulated Primatology: Reflections of a Fellow Traveler 358(24) Bruno Latour Women, Gender, and Science: Some Parallels between Primatology and Developmental Biology 382(16) Evelyn Fox Keller Morphing in the Order: Flexible Strategies, Feminist Science Studies, and Primate Revisions 398(23) Donna Haraway Life in the Field: The Nature of Popular Culture in 1950s America 421(15) Gregg Mitman Politics, Gender, and Worldly Primatology: The Goodall-Fossey Nexus 436(37) Brian E. Noble E-Mail Exchanges: The fight about science--why does it happen? Primatologists and the media--why do primatologists agonize about it? 463(10) SECTION 6 REFORMULATING THE QUESTIONS 473(48) Science Encounters 475(23) Shirley C. Strum Gender Encounters 498(23) Linda M. Fedigan SECTION 7 CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 521(20) Future Encounters: The Media and Science; Gender and Science on the Periphery; The Science Wars; The Value of Primate Studies; The Future of Primates and Primate Studies; Finale: New Teams 523(18) Shirley C. Strum Linda M. Fedigan References 541(78) Contributors 619(4) Index 623