Product Description: We began as savages, and savagery has served us well—it got us where we are. But how do our tribal impulses, still in place and in play, fit in the highly complex, civilized world we inhabit today? This question, raised by thinkers from Freud to Levi-Strauss, is fully explored in this book by the acclaimed anthropologist Robin Fox...read more

Product Description: Happy every holiday! This fabulous eye-catching collection contains 100 entertaining and engaging holiday-themed photo puzzles to solve.All the puzzles fall into one of three categories, according to their level of difficulty: Bright, Dazzling, and Brilliant...read more

Product Description: This book makes sense out of the complext world of symptoms. It does this by revealing how a doctor thinks when faced with patients telling them their stories, that is, by ranking the possible diagnosis in terms of probability. For the first time in a popular medical guide, all the symptoms one might reasonably experience are put into perspective...read more

Product Description: This collection takes photo puzzles to the next level! It’s unique, creative, and simply unlike any other book out there.Part of the successful Spot the Difference series—now with a new look and format—Photo Tricks features 100 colorful, entertaining, eye-catching images...read more

Product Description: Robin Fox, one of the preeminent anthropologists of our time, takes us on an exuberant personal, intellectual and cultural journey through the 1930s to the 1970s. This is a personal, historical, intellectual journey, one that is at once intriguing, hilarious, and moving...read more

Product Description: Consciousness, declares Robin Fox, is "out of context." Useful as an adaptation in the Stone Age, it brought humanity to the top of the food chain but has now created a world it cannot control. The Passionate Mind explores this paradox not through academic demonstration but through satiric dialogues, blank-verse ruminations, lyric, narrative and comic verse, and Aesopian fables...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The basis of this extraordinary effort, the first in a trilogy of foundation volumes in anthropology, is that all history is the history of reproduction and succession—in other words, of kinship. Fox claims that anthropology seems to have forgotten this, while sociology never did grasp it, getting bogged down in something called the family. Economics and psychology for their part were never of much help in the pursuits of cultural universals. If Reproduction and Succession is about anything then, it is about the great shift from the law of status to the law of contract. But this shift hi fault lines concerns not just ideas and legal scaffolds, but some intractable biological givens of the peculiar species that we are. No matter how much we shift our ideas about how the world ought to work, these atavistic, limbic, subrational motives, according to Fox, continue to surface in ways that are either a discomfort or a disaster to neat social constructions of modern reality. This book is an attempt at a constructive approach from social and evolutionary science to the law. Fox does this by using four case studies of a deliberately varied nature and discussing their particulars, rather than by preaching a general theoretical position. He tackles Mormon polygamy; the Baby M trials; Sophocles' Antigone, and the problem of the avunculate. The view is anthropological in a highly old fashioned sense. But this is far more than some ethnography of tribal courts, it is rather a search for the universals that connect up the rational search for law and the empirical search of anthropology.

Product Description: The Challenge of Anthropology is a companion volume to Robin Fox’s highly successful Encounter with Anthropology. Fox illustrates how anthropology must constantly learn from the natural and behavioral sciences. The Challenge of Anthropology takes the author’s own work as a barometer of the state of the discipline, and shows the range of possibilities anthropology offers...read more

Product Description: This is an account of a unique people - a group of Gaelic-speaking islanders living nine miles off the coast of Donegal. Their roots go back to pre-Christian Ireland, and in their isolation they have maintained ways of life that have disappeared on the mainland and the rest of Europe...read more

Product Description: This volume is at once an introduction to anthropology, an account of a personal odyssey, and a call for action. Acknowledged as one of anthropology's most brilliant practitioners, Robin Fox shows in a series of linked essays on such topics as race, evolution, sex, marriage, language, and witchcraft, and the range, potential, and inheritent weaknesses of anthropology as a science...read more

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Argues that humans have lived beyond their time, looks at what would have happened if the American Revolution had failed, and discusses the tyranny of ideas

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Product Description: Robin Fox's study of systems of kinship and alliance has become an established classic of the social science literature. It has been praised above all for its liveliness of style and clarity of exposition in an area that students and general readers have found difficult to master...read more

Product Description: Robin Fox's study of systems of kinship and alliance has become an established classic of the social science literature. It has been praised above all for its liveliness of style and clarity of exposition in an area that students and general readers have found difficult to master...read more

Refutes the widely accepted notion that the taboos against mother-son and father-daughter sexual relations are universal, arguing that our anxiety about the issue is an illuminating indication of our past history and current condition

Refutes the widely accepted notion that the taboos against mother-son and father-daughter sexual relations are universal, arguing that our anxiety about the issue is an illuminating indication of our past history and current condition