HITONARU NISHIE

INSTITUTION

JSPS RPD Fellow/ Kyoto University

ACADEMIC FIELD & RESEARCH

Anthropology, Primate sociology

RESEARCH FIELD (FIELD SITE, LOCATION OF RESEARCH)

Wild chimpanzees at Mahale, Tanzania

MAIN PUBLICATIONS/PAPERS

• Nishie H. “Who is the alpha male?: The appearance of the ‘other’ in chimpanzee society” Others: The Evolution of Human Sociality. Kawai K. (Ed.) Kyoto University Press & Trans Pacific Press, pp. 127-148, 2019.
• Nishie H. “Who is the alpha male?: The institutionality of dominance rank in chimpanzee society” Institutions: The Evolution of Human Sociality. Kawai K. (Ed.) Kyoto University Press & Trans Pacific Press, pp. 121-140, 2017.
• Nishie H. “Neverending interaction: ‘redundant’ interacion among wild chimpanzees” Border and Connection of Interaction: From Studies on Nonhuman Primates, Humans and Conversation. Kimura D., Nakamura M., Takanashi K. (Eds.) Showado, pp. 387-396, 2010. (Japanese)
• Nishie H. Chimpanzee culture and sociality: Reconsidering ‘the metaphor of transmission of knowledge’. Primate Research, 24: 73-90, 2008. (Japanese)

COMMENTS

I am working on the theory and the practice of chimpanzee ethnography.

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