TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Leslie Sponsel
Neotropical Ethnoprimatology: An Introduction
Bernardo Urbani, Manuel Lizarralde
Part I. Mesoamerica
1. Perception and Uses of Primates among Popoluca Indigenous People of Los Tuxtlas, Mexico
(Marianna Pinto-Marroqu n, Juan Carlos Serio-Silva*)
2. Mental State Attribution to Nonhuman Primates and Other Animals by Rural Inhabitants of the Community of Conhuas near the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
(Esmeralda Urquiza-Haas*, Rosa I. Ojeda-Mart nez & Kurt Kotrschal)
3. Local Knowledge and Cultural Significance of Primates (Ateles geoffroyi and Alouatta pigra) among Lacandon Maya from Chiapas, Mexico
(Yasminda Garc a del Valle*, Felipe Ruan-Soto, Fernando Guerrero-Mart nez, Felipe Reyes-Escutia)
4. Representation and Signification of Primates in Maya-Q eqchi Cosmovision and Implications for their Conservation in Northwestern Guatemala
(Marleny Rosales-Meda* & Mar a Susana Hermes)
Part II. South America
5. Ethnoprimatology of the Tikuna in the Southern Colombian Amazon
(Angela M. Maldonado* & Si n Waters)
6. Frugivorous Monkeys Feeding a Tropical Rainforest: Bar Ethnobotanical Ethnoprimatology in Venezuela
(Manuel Lizarralde)
7. Memories, Monkeys and the Mapoyo People: Rethinking Ethnoprimatology in Eco-Historical Contexts of the Middle Orinoco, Venezuela
(Bernardo Urbani)
8. Co-ecology of Jot , Primates and Other People: A Multi-Species Ethnography in the Venezuelan Guayana
(Stanford Zent* & Egle L pez-Zent)
9. Primates in the lives of the Yanomami people of Brazil and Venezuela
(Jean P. Boubli*, Bernardo Urbani, Hortensia Caballero-Arias, Glenn H. Shepard Jr. & Manuel Lizarralde)
10. Kixiri and the Origin of Day and Night: Ethnoprimatology among the Waimiri Atroari Amerindians of Central Amazonia, Brazil
(Ros lis de Souza-Mazurek* & Ana Carla Bruno)
11. Linguistic, Cultural, and Environmental Aspects of Ethnoprimatological Knowledge among the Lokono, Kari'na, and Warao of the Moruca River (Guyana)
(Konrad Rybka)
12. Relationships between Scientific Ecology and Knowledge of Primate Ecology of Wapishana Subsistence Hunters in Guyana
(Thomas Henfrey)
13. Past, Present and Future of Secoya Ethnoprimatology in the Ecuadorian Amazonia
(Stella de la Torre*, Pablo Y pez & Alfredo Payaguaje)
14. The Importance of Nonhuman Primates in Waorani Communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Margaret Franzen Levin)
15. Monkeys in the Wampis (Huambisa) Life and Cosmology in the Peruvian Amazonian Rainforest
(Kacper Świerk)
16. The White Monkey and the Sloth or
Pelejo Monkey: Primates in the Social and Cultural Configurations of the Shawi People of Northwestern Peru
(Luisa Gonz lez-Saavedra)
17. Importance of Primates to Tacana Indigenous Subsistence Hunting in the Bolivian Amazon
(Wendy Townsend*, Robert B. Wallace, Kantuta Lara-Delgado & Guido Miranda-Chumacero)
18. When Monkeys were Humans: Narratives of the Relationship between Primates and the Toba (Qom) People of the Gran Chaco of Argentina
(Celeste Medrano* & Valent n Su rez)