Foreword Karen Strier

Introduction Agustin Fuentes and Linda D. Wolfe

Part I. Science and Nonhuman Primates: Anthropology and Primatology Phyllis Dolhinow

Resistance to the cross-species perspective in anthropology Mary M. Pavelka

The ethics and efficancy of biomedical research in Chimpanzees with special regard to HIV research Roger S. Fouts, Deborah H. Fouts and Gabriel S. Waters

Part II. Cultural Views of Nonhuman Primates: Introduction to section Agustin Fuentes and Linda D. Wolfe

Monkey as food, monkey as child: Guaja symbolic cannibalism Loretta A. Cormier

Ethnoecology of monkeys among the Bari of Venezuela: perception, use and conservation Manuel Lizzaralde

Primates in Matsigenka subsistence and world view Glenn Shepard

Monkey King in China: basis for a conservation policy Frances Burton

Local population, conservation efforts and the mountain gorillas of Rwanda Pascale Sicotte and Prosper Uwengeri

Part III. Conservation of Nonhuman Primates: Introduction to section Agustin Fuentes and Linda Wolfe

Monkeys, humans and politics in the Mentawai Islands: no simple solutions in a complex world Augustin Fuentes

Conservation must pursue a human-nature biosynergy in the era of social chaos and bushmeat commerce Anthony L. Rose

A cultural p rimatological study of Macaca fascicularis on Ngeaur Island, Republic of Palau Bruce Wheatley, Rebecca Stephenson, Hiro Kurashina and Kelly Kautz

Monkeys in the back yard: encroaching wildlife and rural communities in Japan David Sprague

Part IV. Local Economics: Goverment Actions and Nonhuman Primates: Introduction to section Agustin Fuentes and Linda Wolfe

The primatologist as minority advocate Ardith Eudey

Monkey Business? The conservation implications of macaque ethnoprimatology in southern Thailand Lesley E. Sponsel, Nukul Ruttanadakul and Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel

Rhesus macaques: a comparative study of two sites, Jaipur, India and Silver Springs, Florida Linda Wolfe.