The Macaque Connection

The many recorded instances of interaction between humans and macaques are a compelling target for research, and this volume collates analysis of cultural notions of macaque behavior as well as instances of cooperation and conflict with humans.

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.

Details cooperative relationships between humans and macaques Describes current scenarios of human-macaque conflict Highlights traditional views of macaques?

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Most successful among the non-human primates in terms of geographical distribution and adaptability to ecological habitats, macaques have existed for many thousands of years in close contact with modern humans, the only primate more successful than them. Centuries-old literary works attest to the fact that macaques have always been an intrinsic part of human lives and imaginations. In their interactions with humans, macaques play multiple roles that often transcend the boundaries of categorization. They are often, simultaneously, wildlife and domestic pets, sentient beings and experimental subjects, crop-raiding pests and religious symbols. In many parts of the tropics, macaques are an economic resource for human communities, as they provide meat and money through tourism and the animal trade. Equally, they cause much damage and bring about great economic losses due to their crop- and house-raiding tendencies. A more recent cause for alarm has been the possibility of transmission of diseases to humans due to contact with macaques. Across Asia, macaques, perhaps more than any other animal species, exemplify the multiple facets of synurbization and the conservation problems of commensal species.

Humans and macaques associate in rather remarkable ways, and this volume explores the tone and nature of those human-macaque connections by focusing on various forms of interactions between macaques and humans, change in human attitudes vis-à-vis macaques over the ages, cultural views on macaques, human-macaque conflict and its conservation implications. Its holistic perspective of the myriad aspects that illustrate the singular relationship between men and macaques makes it essential reading not only for primatologists and anthropologists but also for anyone interested in the intricacies of human-animal relations.

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CONTENTS PREFACEiiiCONTRIBUTORSviiiPART I: INTRODUCTION 1 The Gulf between Monkeys and MenSindhu Radhakrishna 3PART II: TRADITIONAL VIEWS OF MACAQUES30The Nature of Love Harry F Harlow323. The Japanese and Japanese Monkeys: Dissonant Neighbors Seeking Accommodation in aShared HabitatYoshihisa Mito and David Sprague 53Songs of Monkeys: Representations of Macaques in Classical Tamil PoetrySindhu Radhakrishna 80PART III: COOPERATIVE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HUMANS AND MACAQUES112Macaques and Biomedicine: Notes on Decolonization, Polio, and Changing Representations of Indian Rhesus in the United States, 1930-1960Neel Ahuja 114Macaque Tourism: Implications for their Management and ConservationAvanti Mallapur 154Pets, Property, and Partners: Macaques as Commodities in the Human-Other PrimateInterfaceAgustin Fuentes 180PART IV: CURRENT SCENARIOS OF HUMAN-MACAQUE CONFLICT212GaadliK. P. Poornachandra TejaswiTranslated from Kannada by Honnavalli N Kumara and Shantala Kumar214Macaque-Human Interactions in Past and Present-Day Sri LankaCharmalie A. D. Nahallage and Michael A. Huffman227Monyet Yang Dihargai, Monyet Yang Dibenci: The Human-Macaque Interface in Indonesia Jeffrey Peterson and Erin Riley 251Out of Asia: The Curious Case of the Barbary MacaqueBonaventura Majolo, Els van Lavieren, Laetitia Marechal, Ann MacLarnon, Garry Marvin, Mohamed Qarro and StuartSemple 286PART V: HOW LIVING WITH AND BESIDE HUMANS HAS AFFECTED MACAQUES317The Monkey in the Town's Commons, Revisited: An Anthropogenic History of the Indian Bonnet MacaqueAnindya Sinha and Kakoli Mukhopadhyay 319Genetic Consequences of Anthropogenic Effects on MacaquesDebapriyo Chakraborty and David Glenn Smith 358Managing Humans, Managing Macaques: Human-Macaque Conflict in Asia and AfricaNancy E. C. Priston and Matthew R. McLennan 391INDEX