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Agustín Fuentes

Researcher at Princeton University

Publications -  176
Citations -  5678

Agustín Fuentes is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ethnoprimatology & Niche construction. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 168 publications receiving 4746 citations. Previous affiliations of Agustín Fuentes include University of Notre Dame & Central Washington University.

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Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: why primates matter

TL;DR: Raising global scientific and public awareness of the plight of the world’s primates and the costs of their loss to ecosystem health and human society is imperative.
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NATURALCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN BALI: Monkeys, Temples, Tourists, and Ethnoprimatology

TL;DR: This multispecies ethnography of humans and macaques demonstrates that human perceptions and land use intertwine with macaque social behavior and pathogen physiologies to affect local ecologies and economies for both species.
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Ethnoprimatology and the Anthropology of the Human-Primate Interface ∗

TL;DR: A review of the basic theoretical underpinnings, historical contexts, and a selection of current research outcomes for the ethnoprimatological endeavor can be found in this paper.
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Human culture and monkey behavior: Assessing the contexts of potential pathogen transmission between macaques and humans.

TL;DR: Differences in these two sites' interaction patterns included bite rates, the role of food in aggressive interactions, and the context in which the interactions took place and are interpreted as resulting from differences in macaque species and behaviors, and human demography, culture, and behavioral patterns.
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Primate-to-human retroviral transmission in Asia.

TL;DR: Concerns that persons who work at or live around monkey temples are at risk for infection with SFV are raised, given the first reported transmission to a human of simian foamy virus from a free-ranging population of nonhuman primates in Asia.