Wild cultures : a comparison between chimpanzee and human cultures / Christophe Boesch.
"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 hu...
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2012, ©2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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: cognition and culture
- 9. Uniquely chimpanzee-- uniquely human
- Epilogue: will we have the time to study chimpanzee culture?