Neotropical Ethnoprimatology : Indigenous Peoples' Perceptions of and Interactions with Nonhuman Primates /: Indigenous Peoples' Perceptions of and Interactions with Nonhuman Primates. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bernardo Urbani, Manuel Lizarralde.
• Editors: Urbani, Bernardo; Lizarralde, Manuel
• Contents: TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Leslie Sponsel Neotropical Ethnoprimatology: An Introduction Bernardo Urbani, Manuel Lizarralde Part I. Mesoamerica 1. Perception and Uses of Primates among Popoluca Indigenous People of Los Tuxtlas, Mexico (Marianna Pinto-Marroquín, Juan Carlos Serio-Silva*) 2. Mental State Attribution to Nonhuman Primates and Other Animals by Rural Inhabitants of the Community of Conhuas near the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (Esmeralda Urquiza-Haas*, Rosa I. Ojeda-Martínez & Kurt Kotrschal) 3. Local Knowledge and Cultural Significance of Primates (Ateles geoffroyi and Alouatta pigra) among Lacandon Maya from Chiapas, Mexico (Yasminda García del Valle*, Felipe Ruan-Soto, Fernando Guerrero-Martínez, Felipe Reyes-Escutia) 4. Representation and Signification of Primates in Maya-Q´eqchi´ Cosmovision and Implications for their Conservation in Northwestern Guatemala (Marleny Rosales-Meda* & María Susana Hermes) Part II. South America 5. Ethnoprimatology of the Tikuna in the Southern Colombian Amazon (Angela M. Maldonado* & Siân Waters) 6. Frugivorous Monkeys Feeding a Tropical Rainforest: Barí Ethnobotanical Ethnoprimatology in Venezuela (Manuel Lizarralde) 7. Memories, Monkeys and the Mapoyo People: Rethinking Ethnoprimatology in Eco-Historical Contexts of the Middle Orinoco, Venezuela (Bernardo Urbani) 8. Co-ecology of Jotï, Primates and Other People: A Multi-Species Ethnography in the Venezuelan Guayana (Stanford Zent* & Egleé López-Zent) 9. Primates in the lives of the Yanomami people of Brazil and Venezuela (Jean P. Boubli*, Bernardo Urbani, Hortensia Caballero-Arias, Glenn H. Shepard Jr. & Manuel Lizarralde) 10. Kixiri and the Origin of Day and Night: Ethnoprimatology among the Waimiri Atroari Amerindians of Central Amazonia, Brazil (Rosélis de Souza-Mazurek* & Ana Carla Bruno) 11. Linguistic, Cultural, and Environmental Aspects of Ethnoprimatological Knowledge among the Lokono, Kari'na, and Warao of the Moruca River (Guyana) (Konrad Rybka) 12. Relationships between Scientific Ecology and Knowledge of Primate Ecology of Wapishana Subsistence Hunters in Guyana (Thomas Henfrey) 13. Past, Present and Future of Secoya Ethnoprimatology in the Ecuadorian Amazonia (Stella de la Torre*, Pablo Yépez & Alfredo Payaguaje) 14. The Importance of Nonhuman Primates in Waorani Communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (Margaret Franzen Levin) 15. Monkeys in the Wampis (Huambisa) Life and Cosmology in the Peruvian Amazonian Rainforest (Kacper Świerk) 16. The White Monkey and the Sloth or Pelejo Monkey: Primates in the Social and Cultural Configurations of the Shawi People of Northwestern Peru (Luisa González-Saavedra) 17. Importance of Primates to Tacana Indigenous Subsistence Hunting in the Bolivian Amazon (Wendy Townsend*, Robert B. Wallace, Kantuta Lara-Delgado & Guido Miranda-Chumacero) 18. When Monkeys were Humans: Narratives of the Relationship between Primates and the Toba (Qom) People of the Gran Chaco of Argentina (Celeste Medrano* & Valentín Suárez).
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (396 pages)
• Subjects: Life sciences; Biodiversity; Systems biology; Plant science; Botany; Conservation biology; Ecology ; Ethnology; Science -- Life Sciences -- General; Science -- Life Sciences -- Botany; Nature -- Environmental Conservation & Protection; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Social Science -- Anthropology -- General; Life sciences: general issues; Botany & plant sciences; Conservation of the environment; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Biodiversity
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030275044
• Related ISBNs: 9783030275037
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