Robin Fox

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Robin Fox (born 1934) is an Anglo-American anthropologist who has written on the topics of marriage, human and primate kinship systems, and evolutionary anthropology and sociology. He was born in Yorkshire. He founded the department of anthropology at Rutgers University in 1967 and remained a professor there for the rest of his career. Fox published a work, The Imperial Animal, with Lionel Tiger in 1972, that advocated a 'social carnivore theory' of human evolution.[1] His daughter Kate Fox has also written an anthropologically-themed book, entitled Watching the English.

Books

  • (with Lionel Tiger) The Imperial Animal. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1971. pp. 308. ISBN 978-0-03-086582-4. 
  • Kinship and marriage: an anthropological perspective. Cambridge studies in social anthropology. 50. Cambridge University Press. 1983. pp. 273. ISBN 978-0-521-27823-2. 
  • The search for society: quest for a biosocial science and morality. Rutgers University Press. 1989. pp. 264. ISBN 978-0-8135-1488-8. 
  • Encounter with anthropology. Transaction Publishers. 1991. pp. 338. ISBN 978-0-88738-870-5. 
  • Reproduction and Succession: Studies in Anthropology, Law, and Society. Transaction Publishers. 1993. pp. 269. ISBN 978-1-56000-924-5. 
  • The Challenge of Anthropology: Old Encounters and New Excursions. Transaction Publishers. 1994. pp. 431. ISBN 978-1-56000-827-9. 
  • Conjectures & confrontations: science, evolution, social concern. Transaction Publishers. 1997. pp. 212. ISBN 978-1-56000-286-4. 
  • The passionate mind: sources of destruction & creativity (2nd ed.). Transaction Publishers. 2000. pp. 331. ISBN 978-0-7658-0632-1. 
  • Participant observer: memoir of a transatlantic life. Transaction Publishers. 2004. pp. 575. ISBN 978-0-7658-0238-5. 

References

  1. ^ Wilson, Edward O. (2000 (1975)). "2. Elementary concepts of Sociobiology". Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. Part 1 (25 ed.). Harvard University Press. pp. Reasoning in Sociobiology, p.27–30. ISBN 0-674-00089-7. http://books.google.ca/books?id=v7lV9tz8fXAC. 

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I Am Your Child (1997 Culture & Society Film)