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Eating apes / Dale Peterson ; with an afterword and photographs by Karl Ammann ; foreword by Janet K. Museveni.

Title
Eating apes / Dale Peterson ; with an afterword and photographs by Karl Ammann ; foreword by Janet K. Museveni.
Author
Peterson, Dale.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors
Ammann, Karl.
Description
ix, 320 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps; 24 cm.
Summary
Details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and completely unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the three African great apes account for only about one percent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Eating Apes documents the when, where, how, and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster. In bringing the facts of this crisis and these impending extinctions into a single, accessible book, Peterson takes us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to our closest relatives.--From publisher description.
Series Statement
California studies in food and culture ; 6
Uniform Title
California studies in food and culture 6.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-300) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Laughter -- Beginnings -- Death -- Flesh -- Blood -- Business -- Denial -- A story -- History.
ISBN
0520230906 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2002009715
OCLC
50079919
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library