Tribal imagination: civilization and the savage mind / Robin Fox

By:

Fox, Robin

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Harvard University, 2011. Cambridge:Description: 417 pISBN:

9780674059016

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DDC classification:

301 FOX-T

Contents:

1 time out of mind -- 2 the human in human right -- 3 the kindness of strangers -- 4 sects and evolution -- 5 which ten commandments -- 6 incest and in laws .

Summary: Fox traces our ongoing struggle to maintain open societies in the face of profoundly tribal human needs that, paradoxically, hold the key to our survival. This latest book ranges from incest and arranged marriage to poetry and myth, from human rights and vengeance to pop icons such as Seinfeld.

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1 time out of mind -- 2 the human in human right -- 3 the kindness of strangers -- 4 sects and evolution -- 5 which ten commandments -- 6 incest and in laws .

Fox traces our ongoing struggle to maintain open societies in the face of profoundly tribal human needs that, paradoxically, hold the key to our survival. This latest book ranges from incest and arranged marriage to poetry and myth, from human rights and vengeance to pop icons such as Seinfeld.

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