11. Considerations on Field Methods Used to Assess Nonhuman Primate Feeding Behaviour and Human Food Intake in Terms of Nutritional Requirements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. 1. Centralizing Fieldwork 1
6. 2. The Dos and Don’ts of Fieldwork 27
7. 3. The Anthropologist as a Primatologist: Mental Journeys of a Fieldworker 32
8. 4. Primate Fieldwork and its Human Contexts in Southern Madagascar 49
9. 5. Problem Animals or Problem People? Ethics, Politics and Practice or Conflict between Community Perspectives and Fieldwork on Conservation 69
10. 6. Ecological Anthropology and Primatology: Fieldwork Practices and Mutual Benefits 84
11. 7. Lost in Translation: Field Primatology, Culture, and Interdisciplinary Approaches 104
12. 8. Measuring Meaning and Understanding in Primatological and Biological Anthropology Fieldwork: Context and Practice 121
13. 9. Fieldwork as Research Process and Community Engagement: Experiences from the Gambia and Afghanistan 137
14. 10. Framing the Quantitative within the Qualitative: Why Biological Anthropologists do Fieldwork 156
15. 11. Considerations on Field Methods Used to Assess Nonhuman Primate Feeding Behaviour and Human Food Intake in Terms of Nutritional Requirements 170
16. 12. Anthropobiological Surveys in the Field: Reflections on the Bioethics of Human Medical and DNA Surveys 186
17. 13. Field Schools in Central America: Playing a Pivotal Role in the Formation of Modern Field Primatologists 200
18. 14. The Narrator’s Stance: Story-telling and Science at Berenty Reserve 225
19. 15. Natural Homes: Primate Fieldwork and the Anthropological Method 242
20. 16. Popularizing Fieldwork: Examples from Primatology and Biological Anthropology 256
21. Notes on Contributors 273
22. Index 277