Among Orangutans

Red Apes and the Rise of Human Culture

Carel van Schaik

Photographs by Perry van Duijnhoven

  • 2008 WW Howells Book Prize from the Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association

Preface

1. The Great Ape Paradox

2. Planet of the Apes

3. Homo sylvestris

4. Orangutan Heaven

5. Arbo-Reality

6. Party On (and Off)

7. Life in Slow Motion

8. The Dawn of Technology

9. The Culture Club

10. Triangulating Human Nature

Epilogue: Living on Borrowed Time

Notes

References

Index

  • Cover: Among Orangutans

Carel van Schaik is Professor and Director of the Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich.

Perry van Duijnhoven is a Dutch artist and photographer.