Storytelling Apes. Mary Sanders Pollock

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      STORYTELLING APES

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      Nigel Rothfels and Garry Marvin, General Editors

      ADVISORY BOARD:

      Steve Baker (University of Central Lancashire)

      Susan McHugh (University of New England)

      Jules Pretty (University of Essex)

      Alan Rauch (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

      Books in the Animalibus series share a fascination with the status and the role of animals in human life. Crossing the humanities and the social sciences to include work in history, anthropology, social and cultural geography, environmental studies, and literary and art criticism, these books ask what thinking about nonhuman animals can teach us about human cultures, about what it means to be human, and about how that meaning might shift across times and places.

      OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES:

      Rachel Poliquin,

       The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing

      Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee, and Paul Youngquist, eds.,

       Gorgeous Beasts: Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective

      Liv Emma Thorsen, Karen A. Rader, and Adam Dodd, eds.,

       Animals on Display: The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History

      Ann-Janine Morey,

       Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves: Vintage American Photographs

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Pollock, Mary Sanders, 1948–, author.

      Storytelling apes : primatology narratives past and future / Mary Sanders Pollock.

      pages cm — (Animalibus)

      Summary: “A literary analysis of the popular genre of the informal primatology field narrative. Explores the works of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, and others in the contexts of scientific, literary, and conservation discourses”—Provided by publisher.

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-271-06630-1 (cloth : alk. paper)

      1. Primatology—Authorship.

      2. Primatology—Fieldwork.

      3. Creative nonfiction—History and criticism.

      I. Title. II. Series: Animalibus.

      QL737.P9P643 2015

      599.8—dc23

      2014043060

      Copyright © 2015 The Pennsylvania State University

      All rights reserved

      Printed in the United States of America

      Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press,

      University Park, PA 16802–1003

      The Pennsylvania State University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses.

      It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Material, ANSI Z39.48–1992.

      FOR MY BROTHERS,

      John, Tom, and Jim,

       and

      IN MEMORY OF

      Ann Elizabeth Burlin

      CONTENTS

       THREE

       Tragedy of the Field

       FOUR

       Morphology of the Tale

       FIVE

       Primate Characters

       SIX

       Primatology and the Carnival World

       Conclusion

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

      Like most other primates, we humans form social groups for safety, comfort, and fun. This book is the result of such a grouping—a “fission-fusion” group of friends and fellows. Without them, you would not be reading these stories.

      After a campus visit by Jane Goodall, the late president of Stetson University, H. Douglas Lee, urged me to focus my animal studies research on primates. Soon after, I participated in a workshop at the National Humanities Center—and came away confident that I could do that. I am grateful to everyone at the NHC. I could not have continued without the help, conversations, and tolerance of my friends in the American Society of Primatologists, especially Evan Zucker and Karen Bales. At Stetson University, Dean Grady Ballenger and the many members of the Professional Development Committee over the years have generously supported this project with grant funding and sabbatical leave.

      For reading and responding when I asked, I am deeply grateful to my department chairs Tom Farrell and John Pearson and to my colleagues Terry Farrell and Emily Mieras. Librarians Cathy Ervin and Susan Derryberry

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