Observing Primate Caregivers （2025）

Botero, Maria

Springer International Publishing AG（2025/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 192 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783031762154
• DDC分類 156

Full Description

This book aims to advance our understanding of the caregiver-infant interaction in primates and its effect on the development of social cognition, working from an interdisciplinary approach (i.e., psychology, philosophy, and anthropology), challenging the dominant cognitivist perspectives and methodologies. This book is important because it contributes to understanding how primate parent-and-infant interaction works and how it affects the infant's development. Understanding this parent-and-infant interaction contributes to finding better ways to support human parents and provide better care for non-human primate mothers and infants in captivity.

Contents

Part 1. Before Africa.- 1. Primate Caregivers and Infants: Three key Ideas.- 2. Designing a Study: What a Researcher's Choices Reveal About Their Presuppositions on Communication.- Part 2. In the Field.- 3. Experiencing the Wild.- 4. It is not That Simple: There is Variation we Must Account for.- Part 3. The Aftermath.- 5. The Importance of Touch.- 6. How to Interpret Touch.- 7. Moral Consequences.