Time and the Other Primates

Schiavenato, Stephanie; Rottenburg, Esther; Langlitz, Nicolas

doi:10.1080/19428200.2016.1242928

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“…Boesch assumed that this population of Pan troglodytes had added elements to its honey-fishing toolkit over generations. He considered this to be evidence of cumulative culture in chimpanzees -a claim fiercely contested by colleagues, who believe that only human cultures grow more and more complex, while the supposed cultures of other hominoids, if they deserve that designation at all, remain static and without history (Henrich 2016;Laland 2017;Tomasello 1999; see also Schiavenato et al 2016). In the face of Rousseau's speculations, chimpanzees are hardly men.…”

Section: Pongos and Enjokosmentioning

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Salvage and self‐loathing: Cultural primatology and the spiritual malaise of the Anthropocene

Langlitz

2018

Anthropology Today

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We understand our time as one in which human culture remakes nature. But Japanese and Euro‐American primatologists have come to question whether humans are the only primates capable of culture. Chimpanzee ethnographers observe different chimpanzee communities which share much of their lives with different human communities. The resulting diversity of cultures has become the eye through which all scientific claims about chimpanzee nature must pass. The practices constituting cultural primatology, however, turn out to be as much about knowledge as about care. Wild chimpanzees and their cultures teeter on the brink of extinction as human cultural activities destroy their habitats. Cultural primatology reanimates anthropology's original 18th‐century question of human nature in the 21st‐century context of the Anthropocene: if it is not simply culture, then what has enabled modern humans to radically transform their environments and to outcompete other primate cultures and species? How should we evaluate and narrate the story of our savage success?

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Salvage and self‐loathing: Cultural primatology and the spiritual malaise of the Anthropocene

Langlitz

2018

Anthropology Today

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Chimpanzee ethnography in the face of humankind’s savage success

Langlitz¹

2020

Cahiers d'Anthropologie Sociale

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La primatologie culturelle récapitule l’anthropologie culturelle. Dans les années 1980, au moment même où nombre d’anthropologues culturels abandonnaient le concept de culture, en particulier aux États-Unis, les ethnographes des chimpanzés l’adoptèrent pour décrire les variations comportementales des communautés de grands singes vivant dans des espaces géographiquement distincts. Tout comme leurs collègues en sciences humaines qui en avaient fait l’expérience depuis plus d’un siècle, ils avaient eu peur d’être arrivés trop tard : au mieux, allaient-ils pouvoir documenter ces cultures sur le déclin alors que la sixième extinction de masse était en train d’éradiquer les communautés les unes après les autres. Cet article brosse un portrait de l’ethnographie des chimpanzés comme une primatologie de sauvetage dont l’objet est de décrire la diversité des cultures sauvages. Tandis que les anthropologues évolutionnistes essaient de comprendre notre place dans l’histoire naturelle, il nous faut de même inventer de nouvelles manières de raconter cette histoire et de regarder en face le succès sauvage de l’espèce humaine.

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Time and the Other Primates

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Salvage and self‐loathing: Cultural primatology and the spiritual malaise of the Anthropocene

Salvage and self‐loathing: Cultural primatology and the spiritual malaise of the Anthropocene

Chimpanzee ethnography in the face of humankind’s savage success

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