Human-Gorilla and Gorilla-Human: Dynamics of Human-animal boundaries and interethnic relationships in the central African rainforest

This paper (1) describes the perceptions of the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) by forest dwellers of southeastern Cameroon and (2) investigates the sociocultural dimension of human–gorilla relationships focusing on folk theories of human–animal hybrids in which the gorilla is deep...

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Published in:	Revue de Primatologie
Main Author:	Takanori Oishi
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Société Francophone de Primatologie 2014-02-01
Subjects:	Gorilla gorilla gorilla human–animal hybrid hunter-gatherer–farmer relations comparative ethnography Baka Bakwele
Online Access:	https://journals.openedition.org/primatologie/1881