Introduction: emerging approaches in the anthropology/primatology borderland
The purpose of this Revue de Primatologie issue is to put forward the multiple ways to look at primates across the fields of anthropology and primatology which are commonly thought to be (and which, for the most part, actually are) academically and epistemologically very remote from one another. It...
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| description | The purpose of this Revue de Primatologie issue is to put forward the multiple ways to look at primates across the fields of anthropology and primatology which are commonly thought to be (and which, for the most part, actually are) academically and epistemologically very remote from one another. It is intended to provide a kind of sketch of this ever-widening gulf and to locate some of the major crosscurrents which constantly drive them apart, as well as to look for a few possible interdisciplinary crossing points. The first part of this introduction briefly describes how primates are caught in disciplinary uncertainty between the social and the natural sciences and between the various brands of “ethnoprimatology” which have emerged over the past 15 years. The second part proposes a slightly different perspective on the conceptual fuzziness surrounding primate studies and their relation to anthropology by emphasizing epistemological rather than disciplinary gaps: anthropology itself is partly characterized by dissents similar to those usually described in its opposition to primatology, while a few voices internal to primatology may, for their part, be characterized as anthropological ones. The third part explores some implications of the use of a “tool kit” metaphor to characterize the kind of interdisciplinarity which is practised in current ethnoprimatology, especially about the epistemological integration of the two fields and the overlapping of their respective ontological assumptions. The fourth and last part introduces the articles of this issue, each of them enabling us to consider how and to what extent it may be desirable to transcend these various disciplinary, political and epistemological boundaries. |
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