The Macaque Connection: Cooperation and Conflict between Humans and Macaques(43 Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)

The concept of this book arises from a symposium entitled “Human-Macaque Interactions: Traditional and Modern Perspectives on Cooperation and Conflict ” organized at the 23rd Congress of the International Primatological Society, that was held in Kyoto in September 2010. The symposium highlighted the many aspects of human-macaque relations and some of the participants were invited to contribute to this volume. The volume will include about 11 chapters by a variety of international authors and some excerpts from published literature that illustrate cultural notions of macaques. Contributions from invited authors will engage with four main perspectives – traditional views of macaques, cooperative relationships between humans and macaques, current scenarios of human-macaque conflict, and how living with and beside humans has affected macaques. Authors will address these concerns through their research findings and reviews of their work on the Asian, and the lone African, macaques. ​

Table of Contents:
CONTENTS   PREFACE iii CONTRIBUTORS viii PART I: INTRODUCTION 1 The Gulf between Monkeys and Men Sindhu Radhakrishna 3 PART II: TRADITIONAL VIEWS OF MACAQUES 30 The Nature of Love  Harry F Harlow 32 3.      The Japanese and Japanese Monkeys: Dissonant Neighbors Seeking Accommodation in aShared Habitat Yoshihisa Mito and David Sprague   53 Songs of Monkeys: Representations of Macaques in Classical Tamil Poetry Sindhu Radhakrishna   80 PART III: COOPERATIVE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HUMANS AND MACAQUES 112 Macaques and Biomedicine: Notes on Decolonization, Polio, and Changing Representations of Indian Rhesus in the United States, 1930-1960 Neel Ahuja     114 Macaque Tourism: Implications for their Management and Conservation Avanti Mallapur   154 Pets, Property, and Partners: Macaques as Commodities in the Human-Other PrimateInterface Agustin Fuentes   180 PART IV: CURRENT SCENARIOS OF HUMAN-MACAQUE CONFLICT 212 Gaadli K. P. Poornachandra Tejaswi Translated from Kannada by Honnavalli N Kumara and Shantala Kumar 214 Macaque-Human Interactions in Past and Present-Day Sri Lanka Charmalie A. D. Nahallage and Michael A. Huffman 227 Monyet Yang Dihargai, Monyet Yang Dibenci: The Human-Macaque Interface in Indonesia Jeffrey Peterson and Erin Riley   251 Out of Asia: The Curious Case of the Barbary Macaque Bonaventura Majolo, Els van Lavieren, Laetitia Marechal, Ann MacLarnon, Garry Marvin, Mohamed Qarro and StuartSemple       286 PART V: HOW LIVING WITH AND BESIDE HUMANS HAS AFFECTED MACAQUES 317 The Monkey in the Town’s Commons, Revisited: An Anthropogenic History of the Indian Bonnet Macaque Anindya Sinha and Kakoli Mukhopadhyay   319 Genetic Consequences of Anthropogenic Effects on Macaques Debapriyo Chakraborty and David Glenn Smith 358 Managing Humans, Managing Macaques: Human-Macaque Conflict in Asia and Africa Nancy E. C. Priston and Matthew R. McLennan   391 INDEX  

Review :
From the reviews: “This book focuses on macaques, the most widely distributed and behaviorally flexible nonhuman primate species. … a useful, timely collection of essays highlighting the diversity of the genus and its interface with humans. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.” (L. Swedell, Choice, Vol. 50 (8), April, 2013) “The Macaque Connection … explores the many ways in which humans and macaques have connected in the past and the present. … The Macaque Connection focuses on providing a rich historical perspective on a wider range of macaque species. The Macaque Connection therefore has greater relevance for historians and cultural anthropologists. … of interest to primatologists––especially macaque researchers.” (Crystal M. Riley, International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 34, 2013)