Format:
1 Online-Ressource (349 pages)
ISBN:
9780520938427
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0520938429
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1282358006
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9781282358003
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9786612358005
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6612358009
Series Statement:
California Studies in Food & Culture, 6
Content:
Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apeschimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned exposé details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and completely unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the three African great apes account for o
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Cover; Contents; Foreword; INTRODUCTION; 1 LAUGHTER; 2 BEGINNINGS; 3 DEATH; 4 FLESH; 5 BLOOD; 6 BUSINESS; 7 DENIAL; 8 A STORY; Color plates; 9 HISTORY; Afterword; Appendix A. Saving the Apes; Appendix B. Further Reading; Appendix C. The Primate Family Tree; Appendix D. The HIV/SIV Family Tree; Maps; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520243323
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520243323
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780520230903
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Author information:
Ammann, Karl 1948-
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