The character of human institutions
Subtitle: Robin Fox and the rise of biosocial science
By: Michael Egan, editor
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781412853774
Subjects: Anthropologists; Biography; Physical anthropology; Sociobiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: This guy, Fox / Lionel Tiger; title: A tribute and personal thanks / Michael Mcguire; title: Popularity and drink; title: Writing popular anthropology / Kate Fox; title: Drink and duty: extreme drinking rituals in the british army / Anne Fox; title: Laughter and happiness; title: Understanding laughter / Sir Antony Jay; title: Joyous equal and free: conditions of felicity in human organizations / Charles Macdonald; title: Kinship and incest; title: Kinship constructed us: the implications of primate studies for cultural anthropology / Linda Stone; title: Lighting the red lamp of incest / Alexandra Maryanski and Jonathan Turner; title: Darwin and cousin marriage in england / Adam Kuper; title: Self and epic; title: The image of the good imperial education / Alan Macfarlane; title: The ethnography of the self:; title: Anthropologists? autobiographies / David Jenkins; title: The universal epic: a research challenge / Frederick Turner; title: Nature and society; title: From human nature to human society: why anthropology cannot ignore biological constants / Bernard Chapais; title: The changing nature of human nature / H. Dieter Steklis:; title: Science and anti-science in anthropology: a look back / Mel Konner; title: Finale; title: The consumerist cosmos / Howard Bloom; title: Last word: the razors edge / Robin Fox.