| Preface | |
| 1 | Changing Views of Primate Society: A Situated North American Perspective | 3 |
| 2 | A Few Peculiar Primates | 57 |
| 3 | The Bad Old Days of Primatology? | 71 |
| 4 | Piltdown Man, the Father of American Field Primatology | 85 |
| 5 | Some Reflections on Primatology at Cambridge and the Science Studies Debate | 104 |
| 6 | Primate Ethology and Socioecology in the Netherlands | 116 |
| E-Mail Exchanges: Why study primates? Did our ideas about primate society change? How do ideas change? | 138 |
| 7 | Traditions of the Kyoto School of Field Primatology in Japan | 151 |
| 8 | Negotiating Science: Internationalization and Japanese Primatology | 165 |
| 9 | Some Characteristics of Scientific Literature in Brazilian Primatology | 184 |
| 10 | An American Primatologist Abroad in Brazil | 194 |
| E-Mail Exchanges: Why do Westerners accept Japanese data but not theory and practice? Are there many primatologies or one international science? | 208 |
| 11 | The Divergent Case of Cultural Anthropology | 223 |
| 12 | Standpoint Matters - in Archaeology, for Example | 243 |
| 13 | Paradigms and Primates: Bateman's Principle, Passive Females, and Perspecties from Other Taxa | 261 |
| 14 | Culture, Disciplinary Tradition, and the Study of Behavior: Sex, Rats, and Spotted Hyenas | 275 |
| 15 | Changing Views on Imitation in Primates | 296 |
| E-Mail Exchanges: Did sociobiology make a difference in our ideas about primate society? Did women studying primates make a difference? | 310 |
| 16 | Primate Suspect: Some Varieties of Science Studies | 329 |
| 17 | A Well-Articulated Primatology: Reflections of a Fellow Traveler | 358 |
| 18 | Women, Gender, and Science: Some Parallels between Primatology and Developmental Biology | 382 |
| 19 | Morphing in the Order: Flexible Strategies, Feminist Science Studies, and Primate Revisions | 398 |
| 20 | Life in the Field: The Nature of Popular Culture in 1950s America | 421 |
| 21 | Politics, Gender, and Worldly Primatology: The Goodall-Fossey Nexus | 436 |
| E-Mail Exchanges: The fight about science - why does it happen? Primatologists and the media - why do primatologists agonize about it? | 463 |
| 22 | Science Encounters | 475 |
| 23 | Gender Encounters | 498 |
| 24 | Future Encounters: The Media and Science; Gender and Science on the Periphery; The Science Wars; The Value of Primate Studies; The Future of Primates and Primate Studies; Finale: New Teams | 523 |
| References | 541 |
| Contributors | 619 |
| Index | 623 |