Delia Akeley and the Monkey [electronic resource] : : A Human-Animal Story of Captivity, Patriachy and Nature
Iain McCalman2022
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On an East-African hunting expedition in 1909, Delia Akeley, a forty-year-old
American woman, casually captured a baby female monkey, never dreaming this act
would overturn both their lives. Delia’s life was isolated and often lonely in
an overpoweringly masculine world. She decided to name the monkey JT Jr and
study her interactions with humans; a long-frustrated desire to adopt a child
led her to also lose her heart to this lovable animal.
This relationship with a feisty, intelligent Vervet unlocked Delia’s latent
talents of research and observation, anticipating both Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee
writings and Margaret Mead’s Samoan ethnographies. It illuminates much about
human-animal relations and the tyranny of gender inequality by reinstating an
obscured story of a dedicated amateur primatologist. Iain McCalman uses records,
official and informal, to build a story of passionate love and hate among women,
men, animals and mu...
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Author:
Iain McCalman, Author
Imprint:
Perth, W.A. : Upswell Publishing, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781743822425
Language:
English
BRN:
531262
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