Abstract
Donna Haraway’s ecological visions frame this exploration of the author’s mother Alison Jolly’s writings as a primatologist of ring-tailed lemurs. Alison Jolly, the author proposes, chose auto|biographical modes to unsettle anthropomorphic and western perspectives, and to enhance conservation efforts in Madagascar. The author finds solace in this and in Haraway’s ideas about survival as the publisher of her mother’s diaries after her death.
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Acknowledgments
This article is dedicated to Lee Durrell, who so generously helped establish the Alison Jolly Madagascar Scholarship. See http://www.americanfriendsofdurrell.org/. I would also like to thank Craig Howes for his support and appreciation of my mother’s work.
Notes
1 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 60.
2 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 82–85. Information on The Ako Project can be found at http://www.lemurreserve.org/ako-project. See also Jolly, “Alison Jolly.”
3 Jolly and Jolly, “A View.”
4 Jolly, “Female Biology.”
5 Jolly, “The Narrator’s Stance,” 227.
6 Jolly, “Lemur Social Behavior,” 506.
7 Popkin, “Family Memoir and Self-Discovery.”
8 Miller, Bequest and Betrayal, xii.
9 Lejeune, “How Do Diaries End?”
10 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar, 370.
11 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar, 38.
12 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar.
13 Comments during a presentation by Richard at the Thank You, Madagascar book launch, UNICEF, New York, April 28, 2015.
14 Jolly, Lords and Lemurs, 103–120, 321.
15 See the description of the film Madagascar on the Amazon website: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Madagascar-Ben-Stiller/dp/B00FYOLXC6
16 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar, 221.
17 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar, 222.
18 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar, 75.
19 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar, 77.
20 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar, 43–57.
21 The New York Zoological Society changed its name in 1993 to the Wildlife Conservation Society.
22 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar, 345–346.
23 See Bezanson, Rajaobalena, and Gérin, End of Mission Report.
24 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar, 338.
25 Madagascar: Voices of Change.
26 Whitlock, Postcolonial Life Narratives, 107–135.
27 Whitlock, Postcolonial Life Narratives, 123–125.
28 Haraway, Primate Visions, 135.
29 Whitlock, Postcolonial Life Narratives, 120.
30 Haraway, Primate Visions, 268–275.
31 Jolly, A World, 204–214.
32 Haraway, Primate Visions, 274.
33 Jolly, A World, xv.
34 Corson, Corridors of Power, 82–87.
35 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar, 279–280.
36 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar, 116.
37 Jolly, “The Narrator’s Stance.”
38 This context is gleanable from the Alison Jolly Papers, c.1919–2014, Collection no. 8517, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM08517.html
39 Jolly, Lords and Lemurs, 182.
40 Jolly, Lucy’s Legacy, 62.
41 Whitlock, Postcolonial Life Narratives, 100.
42 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar, 60.
43 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar, 155.
44 Jolly, A World, 202.
45 Fedigan, “Primatology?” 67.
46 Jolly, Thank You, Madagascar, 131.
47 Haraway, When Species Meet, 312n.
48 Huff and Haefner, “His Master’s Voice,” 161.
49 Jolly, “The Narrator’s Stance,” 239.
50 Jolly, “The Narrator's Stance.”
51 Lejeune, “Composing a Diary,” 173.
52 Haraway, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene,” 160–161.
53 Miller, Bequest and Betrayal.
54 Whitlock, Postcolonial Life Narratives, 202–203.
55 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 69.