Wild Man from Borneo: species, race, representation

这个项目致力于19世纪和20世纪西方对猩猩的描述中物种边界的表现。达尔文理论提出了动物可以“进化”的可能性。猩猩看起来？最接近？因此提出了关于人和动物之间的边界的关键问题。这些问题在各种科学的、通俗的、富有想象力的和青少年文学中都得到了解决。即使当生态环境模型将注意力从进化潜力转移到生态角色时，猩猩仍保持着作为哨兵的特殊地位。物种。该项目将出版一本专著，研究物种边界观念的构建、维护和侵蚀。

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.