AN41CH07-Fuentes ARI 19 June 2012 12:32 R E V I E W S I N A D V A N C E Ethnoprimatology and the Anthropology of the Human-Primate Interface * Agustin Fuentes Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46545; email: afuentes@nd.edu Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2012. 41:101–17 The Annual Review of Anthropology is online at anthro.annualreviews.org This article’s doi: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-092611-145808 Copyright c  2012 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved 0084-6570/12/1021-0101$20.00 * This article is part of a special theme on Climate Change. For a list of other articles in this theme, see this volume’s Table of Contents. Keywords ethnoprimatology, primate studies, Anthropocene, niche construction, anthropogenic ecology Abstract Humans are literal and figurative kin to other primates, with whom many of us coexist in diverse social, ecological, symbolic, conflictual, and even hopeful contexts. Anthropogenic action is changing global and local ecologies as fast as, or faster than, we can study them. Ethnoprima- tology, the combining of primatological and anthropological practice and the viewing of humans and other primates as living in integrated and shared ecological and social spaces, is becoming an increasingly popular approach to primate studies in the twenty-first century. This approach plays a core linking role between anthropology and primate studies and may enable us to more effectively assess, and better understand, the complex ecologies and potential for sustainability in human–other pri- mate communities. Here I review the basic theoretical underpinnings, historical contexts, and a selection of current research outcomes for the ethnoprimatological endeavor and indicate what this approach can tell us about human–other primate relations in the Anthropocene. 101 Review in Advance first posted online on June 28, 2012. (Changes may still occur before final publication online and in print.) Changes may still occur before final publication online and in print Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2012.41. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by University of Notre Dame on 07/03/12. For personal use only.