Wild Man from Borneo: species, race, representation

来自婆罗洲的野人：物种、种族、代表性

• 批准号: DP0344543
• 负责人: Prof Robert Cribb
• 金额: $ 4.88万
• 依托单位: The Australian National University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2003-01-01 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0344543
• 关键词: Wild; Man; Borneo; species; race

This project addresses the representation of species boundaries in Western accounts of the orangutan in the 19th and 20th centuries. Darwinian theory raised the possibility that animals could ?evolve?. Orangutans seemed ?closest? to humans and therefore raised key questions about the border between humans and animals. These questions were addressed in a vast range of scientific, popular, imaginative and juvenile literature. Even when ecological models of the environment shifted attention from evolutionary potential to ecological role, orangutans retained a special status as ?sentinel? species. This project will produce a monograph examining the construction, maintenance and erosion of ideas of species boundaries.

这个项目解决了在19世纪和20世纪的猩猩西方帐户的物种边界的表示。 达尔文的理论提出了动物可以？进化？ 红毛猩猩似乎？最近的？因此提出了关于人类和动物之间边界的关键问题。 这些问题在大量的科学、通俗、想象和青少年文学作品中得到了解决。 即使当环境的生态模型将注意力从进化潜力转移到生态作用时，猩猩仍然保持着一种特殊的地位。哨兵？物种 该项目将编写一本专题论文，研究物种边界概念的建立、维持和侵蚀。