From Chico to Caesar, Why Chimps Are Good to Think
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Published:2023-10-13
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ISSN:0007-7720
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Container-title:Canadian Review of American Studies
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Canadian Review of American Studies
Affiliation:
1. University of California, Davis, United States
Abstract
Americans since Darwin have projected onto chimpanzees, the primates closest to us in evolutionary history, their anxieties about race, sex, family, and questions regarding the relationship between nature and nurture, questions basic to understanding what it means to be human. The history of scientific discourse and discourse in American popular culture about chimpanzees since the middle of the nineteenth century show patterns responsive to specific American anxieties at moments in history.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,History,Cultural Studies