Abstract

RAPCHAN, Eliane Sebeika. Chimpanzés possuem cultura? Questões para a antropologia sobre um tema "bom para pensar". Rev. Antropol. [online]. 2005, vol.48, n.1, pp. 227-280. ISSN 0034-7701.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77012005000100006.

The text proposes a reflection about the growing use of culture's idea, in the last years, to define some aspects of chimpanzees behavior, considering its characteristics and contexts, as well as the questions that this kind of procedure poses to the Social Sciences toward an Anthropology of Ideas and Knowledge's .

Keywords : chimpanzee cultures; darwinism; ethology; evolution [adaptation]; nature [nurture relations].