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From Haraway's Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science |
Monkeys and apes have a privileged relation to nature and culture for western people: simians occupy the border zones between those potent mythic poles. In the border zones, love and knowledge are richly ambiguous and productive of meanings in which many people have a stake. The commercial and scientific traffic in monkeys and apes is a traffic in meanings, as well as animal lives. The sciences that tie monkeys, apes, and people together in a Primate Order are built through disciplined practices deeply enmeshed in narrative, politics, myth, economics, and technical possibilities. The women and men who have contributed to primate studies have carried with them the marks of their own histories and cultures. (1-2) |