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The Contest for Primate Nature Daughters of
Man-the Hunter in the Field, 1960-80Donna
Haraway

• Prepared by
• Dr. Kay Picart

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Guide Questions

• Why does Haraway contend that language is not
  innocent in our primate order?
• In what ways is science our myth?

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Guide Question

• In what ways are feminism and science both myths?

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Guide Questions

• Does Haraway mean to say that there is no such
  thing as a fact or truth?
• Does Haraway contend that science and politics
  are one and the same thing?

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Guide Question

• Describe Washburns patrilineal primatology.

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Fathers-1

• Who was the father and what was the
  Man-the-Hunter hypothesis?

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Guide Question

• How was the Man-the-Hunter hypothesis modified by
  Washburns daughters (Jay/Dolhinow, DeVore,
  Ripley, Hrdy, Bogess)?

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Fathers-4

• How did Hrdys narrative constitute a rebellion
  from the patrilineal narrative?

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Guide Question

• Why is Haraway highly critical of Hrdys remark
  that Anyone heroic enough to read on to the
  end of the book will learn why the identification
  of langurs with warriors was an appropriate
  taxonomic choice, why the final salute must be
  to the prescience of the 19th C British
  naturalists who first went to study the Hanuman?
  (100)

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Daughters-5

• POSSIBLE TIE!!!!!!!
• If you can answer this question, then you may tie
  for first place!
• In what ways were Hrdys theories like soap
  operas?

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Daughters-2

• THE BONUS QUESTION
• What was Ripleys emphasis on?

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The Final Bonus Question

• Why are categories of health and pathology
  important to Bogess?

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Guide Question

• What are Haraways concluding remarks?

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Final Question

• Can you think of other instances in which new
  scientific stories, implicating gender and/or
  race and class, have been revised?
• (E.g., the story of fertilization a feminist
  critique of the story of sex)