Author: Egan, Michael
Title: The character of human institutions: Robin Fox and the rise of biosocial science / Michael Egan, editor
Description: New Brunswick. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers 2014. 1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xi. 382 pages. Contents: This guy. Fox / Lionel Tiger -- A tribute and personal thanks / Michael Mcguire -- Popularity and drink -- Writing popular anthropology / Kate Fox -- Drink and duty: extreme drinking rituals in the british army / Anne Fox -- Laughter and happiness -- Understanding laughter / Sir Antony Jay -- Joyous equal and free: conditions of felicity in human organizations / Charles Macdonald -- Kinship and incest -- Kinship constructed us: the implications of primate studies for cultural anthropology / Linda Stone -- Lighting the red lamp of incest / Alexandra Maryanski and Jonathan Turner -- Darwin and cousin marriage in england / Adam Kuper -- Self and epic -- The image of the good imperial education / Alan Macfarlane -- The ethnography of the self: -- Anthropologists? autobiographies / David Jenkins -- The universal epic: a research challenge / Frederick Turner -- Nature and society -- From human nature to human society: why anthropology cannot ignore biological constants / Bernard Chapais -- The changing nature of human nature / H. Dieter Steklis: -- Science and anti-science in anthropology: a look back / Mel Konner -- Finale -- The consumerist cosmos / Howard Bloom -- Last word: the razors edge / Robin Fox. Subject: Fox. Robin 1934. Anthropologists England; Biography. Anthropologists United States; Biography. Physical anthropology.

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