Research Catalog

Title

Eating apes / Dale Peterson ; with an afterword and photographs by Karl Ammann ; foreword by Janet K. Museveni.

Author

Peterson, Dale.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

Ammann, Karl.

Description

ix, 320 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps; 24 cm.

Summary

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 only about one percent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Eating Apes documents the when, where, how, and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster. In bringing the facts of this crisis and these impending extinctions into a single, accessible book, Peterson takes us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to our closest relatives.--From publisher description.

Series Statement

California studies in food and culture ; 6

Uniform Title

California studies in food and culture 6.

Subject

• Apes > Africa, Central
• Wildlife conservation > Africa, Central
• Ape meat industry > Africa, Central

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-300) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Laughter -- Beginnings -- Death -- Flesh -- Blood -- Business -- Denial -- A story -- History.

ISBN

0520230906 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002009715

OCLC

50079919

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library