Fox, Robin

Tribal imagination: civilization and the savage mind / Robin Fox - Cambridge: Harvard University, 2011. - 417 p.

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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Tribes -- Philosophy.
Civilization.

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