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25. For a discussion of some of the "contradictions, tensions, and paradoxes" from which patterns emerge in the historical context of Western gender ideology see L. J. Jordanova "Natural Facts: A Historical Perspective on Science and Sexuality," in Carol

 

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MacCormack and Marilyn Strathern, eds.,
Nature, Culture, and Gender
(Cambridge University Press, 1980).
26. "Biological humanism" is Haraway's term for these perpectives. For further discussion see chapter 8 of
Primate Visions,
186-230.
27. For an able statement of this model see Sherwood L. Washburn and C. S. Lancaster, "The Evolution of Hunting" in Richard Lee and Irven DeVore, eds.,
Man the Hunter
(Chicago: Aldine, 1968), 293-303.
28. Haraway limns the ideological and human engineering goals of Yerkes work with primates in "Animal Sociology and a Natural Economy of the Body Politic, Part I, A Political Physiology of Dominance" in
Signs
4 (1978): 21-36.
29. The Japanese have undertaken important primate studies since 1948, including longitudinal studies of habituated groups of Japanese macaques
(Macacafuscata)
as well as naturalistic field studies of other species in Africa and Asia. Many of these studies have only been made recently available through translation to English speakers. For a discussion of contrasting visions of primates cross-culturally see Pamela Asquith,
Some Aspects of Anthropomorphism in the Terminology and Philosophy Underlying Western and Japanese Studies of the Social Behaviour of Nonhuman Primates,
Ph.D. Thesis, Oxford University, 1981.
30. Linda Marie Fedigan
Primate Paradigms: Sex Roles and Social Bonds
(Montreal: Eden Press, 1982).
31. For a good summary of the genetic and behavioral evidence for a close relationship between humans and chimpanzees, see Richard Wrangham's "Ape Cultures and Missing Links" in
Symbols
(Spring 1995), 2-20. For a summary of revisionist data critiquing the "savanna hypothesis" for human origins see James Shreeve's "Sunset on the Savanna,"
Discover Magazine
(July 1996), 116-25.
32. Jane Goodall,
Chimpanzees of the Gombe
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986).
33. Nancey Tanner and Adrienne Zihlman "Women in Human Evolution, Part 1. Innovation and Selection in Human Origins."
Signs
1 (1976): 585-608; Adrienne Zihlman "Women and Evolution, Part 2. Subsistence and Social Organization among Early Hominids."
Signs
4 (1978): 4-20.
34. Thelma Rowell "The Concept of Dominance,"
Behavioral Biology
11 (1974): 131-54.

 

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