In a corpus consisting of 103 primatological works, all the paratexts as well as narrative positions were collected and quantified. This data collection consists of a bibliography in two formats (.odt and UTF-8 encoded.csv), the raw data in two formats (.xls and UTF-8 encoded.csv), a file containing quantified data used for clustering (UTF-8 encoded.csv), code used in R for an exploratory analysis, and two sample dendrograms showing the results of the clustering. The results of the analysis were published in: Fabienne Kilchör, Jörg Lehmann, Analyse von Begleittexten am Beispiel von 103 Ethnografien. In: Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften. Wolfenbüttel 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17175/2020_003