I am anthropologically trained primatologist with a theoretical interest in the functional role of social and ecological niche construction in primate societies, especially within the Superfamily Hominoidea. Applied aspects of my work are directed toward the broad goal of primate conservation, with a particular emphasis on understanding the economic underpinnings of the live animal trade. Additionally, I am interested in the ethical implications of human and alloprimate interactions, and the representation of animals in society. My writing is informed by research experience in Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

 

Malone NM, Fuentes A, Riley EP, Remis M, Wade, AH. (In preparation) Ethnoprimatology: critical interdisciplinarity and multispecies approaches in anthropology. Critique of Anthropology.

Malone NM. (In preparation) Demography and ranging of silvery gibbons (Hylobates moloch) in the fragmented Sancang Forest Nature Reserve, West Java, Indonesia. American Journal of Primatology.

Malone NM, Palmer A. (In preparation) Ethical and representational issues within human-alloprimate interactive zones. In: L. Burns & M. Patterson (eds.) Animals, People - A Shared Environment. Sydney University Press.

Malone NM, Fuentes A, White FJ. (2012) Variation in the social systems of extant hominoids: comparative insight into the social behaviour of early hominins. International Journal of Primatology. DOI: 10.1007/s10764-012-9617-0

Malone NM. (2011) Book Review: Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century, MA Little &  KAR Kennedy, eds. American Journal of Human Biology, 23(1):142. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.21117

Malone NM,Fuentes A, White FJ. (2010) Ethics Commentary: Subjects of knowledge and control in field primatology. American Journal of Primatology, 72(9):779-784. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20840

Malone NM. (2009) The state of biological anthropology in 2008: is our discipline strong and our cause just? American Anthropologist, 111(2):146-152. DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01107.x

Malone NM, Fuentes A. (2009) The ecology and evolution of hylobatid communities: proximate and ultimate considerations of inter- and intraspecific variation. The Gibbons: New Perspectives on Small Ape Socioecology and Population Biology. D. Whittaker & S. Lappan (Eds.). Series Title: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer Academic Press, pp. 241-264. DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-88604-6_12

Malone NM.(2008) Book Review: The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings, L Kalof & A Fitzgerald, eds. Organization and the Environment, 21(2):215-217. DOI:10.1177/1086026608318091

Malone NM.(2007) The socioecology of the critically endangered Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch): assessing the impact of anthropogenic disturbance on primate social systems. PhD dissertation, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.

Longo SB, Malone NM. (2006) Meat, medicine, and materialism: a dialectical analysis of human relationships to nonhuman animals and the environment. Human Ecology Review, 13(2):111-121.

Malone NM, Pakpahan H, Wedana M. (2006) Behavioral and ecological responses of silvery gibbons (Hylobates moloch) to severe habitat degradation in West Java, Indonesia. American Society of Primatology Bulletin, 30(3), 11-12.

Malone NM, Fuentes A, Purnama AR, Adi Putra IMW. (2004). Displaced hylobatids: biological, cultural, and economic aspects of the primate trade in Java and Bali, Indonesia. Tropical Biodiversity, 40(1):41-49.

Malone NM. (2003). Conservation: the highest priority of the International Primatological Society. American Association of Physical Anthropology Newsletter, 4(1):4-5.

Malone NM, Purnama AR, Wedana M, & Fuentes A. (2002). Assessment of the sale of primates at Indonesian bird markets. Asian Primates, 8(1-2):7-11.

Fuentes A, Malone NM, Sanz C, Matheson MD,  Vaughan L. (2002). Conflict and post-conflict behavior in a small group of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Primates, 43(3):223-235.

Malone NM.(2000). Providing arboreal enrichment for captive chimpanzees. The Shape of Enrichment, 9(2):3-4.

Malone NM, Vaughan LL, Fuentes A. (2000). The Role of Human Caregivers in the Post-Conflict Interactions of Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Laboratory Primate Newsletter, 39(1):1-3.

Malone NM.(1998). Providing orangutans with opportunities for arboreal behavior. The Shape of Enrichment, 7(4):1-2.