Chapter 5 Links and Further Reading

Living Primates: Comparing Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

Blog Roll and Web Links

Reading anthro blogs is a great way to keep up with the latest developments and discoveries in the field, to get a sense of the most important debates and controversies and to find out what anthropologists think about world events. There are literally hundreds of blogs maintained by professional anthropologists from all the subfields (a quite comprehensive list can be found at http://anthropologyreport.com/anthropology-blogs-2014/).

  1. All the World’s Primates (http://www.alltheworldsprimates.org/Home.aspx).

    A comprehensive website on all primate species, primate conservation, and news related to primates. The site also hosts a blog, which often reports on discoveries of new species.
  1. The Prancing Papio (http://theprancingpapio.blogspot.com/).

    Subtitled “Primatology for the People,” this blog is written by a graduate student, Raymond Vagell, who muses on his research subject, lemurs.
  1. Ape-Man (http://humanapeinterface.blogspot.com/2016/02/ethnoprimatology-primate-conservation.html).

    A blog with an ethnoprimatological focus for “examining ape-human interactions, interface, [and] relationships across contexts.”

Other Web Resources

Oxford Bibliographies has entries on anthrozoology and primatology:

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0072.xml

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0019.xml?rskey=usIsbt&result=116

American Society of Primatologists website: https://www.asp.org/

International Primatological Society website: http://www.internationalprimatologicalsociety.org/

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