Eating Apes CALIFORNIA STUDIES IN FOOD AND CULTURE Darra Goldstein, Editor

This series considers food broadly, in its relationship to society and the environment. Food is explored as a vital medium through which cultures, societies, and civilizations can be more deeply understood. Subjects range from ethnic foodways, culinary his- tory, and gendered approaches to food, to the psychology of eat- ing and food technology. EATING APES

Dale Peterson

With an Afterword and Photographs by Karl Ammann

Foreword by Janet K. Museveni

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London Excerpts from “Burnt Norton” from Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1936 by Harcourt, Inc. and renewed 1964 by T. S. Eliot, reprinted by permission of the publisher. Excerpt from “East Coker” in Four Quartets, copyright 1940 by T.S. Eliot and renewed 1968 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc. Excerpt from “The Dry Salvages” in Four Quartets, copyright 1941 by T.S. Eliot and renewed 1969 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc. Excerpts from “Little Gidding” from Four Quartets, copyright 1942 by T. S. Eliot and renewed 1970 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.

Distribution maps on pages 249–50 were adapted from Great Apes and Humans: The Ethics of Coexistence, edited by Benjamin A. Beck, et al.; copyright © 2001 by the Smithsonian Institution. Used by permission of the publisher.

A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated by the publisher to the Great Ape Project.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Peterson, Dale. Eating apes / by Dale Peterson ; with an afterword and photographs by Karl Ammann. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 0–520–23090–6 (Cloth : alk. paper) 1. Apes—Africa, Central. 2. Wildlife conservation—Africa, Central. 3. Ape meat industry—Africa, Central. I. Title. QL737.P96 P463 2003 333.95'98'0967—dc21 2002009715

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