Participant Observer: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (909 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765802384 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 534 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Robin Fox, one of the preeminent anthropologists of our time, takes us on an exuberant personal, intellectual and cultural journey through the 1930s to the 1970s. It is the history of an education by a narrator in love with learning.. Like Browning's Sordello (who recurs throughout the book), Fox is telling the story of "the development of a soul." Fox's method is to depend entirely on memory to select the people, events, and ideas that have driven him towards what was called at the time a "revolution in the social sciences." This revolution was the founding of the biosocial, or what came to be called the sociobiological, movement in the study of human behavior. It was a long road peppered with strange events, brain-bending ideas, odd adventures, dangers and sorrows, and a cast of lively, often eccentric characters. Fox has given us a kind of Cook's Tour through the ideas and intellectual movements of mid-century, when the world changed and the foundations of the twenty-first century were set. He witnessed the last of the old steam and horse-powered northern wool towns of the industrial revolution and the pre-industrial Hardy countryside of southern England. This is a personal, historical,
Friend and precept find him loyal. He wears emblematic names, and you recognize him. Hideous shapes dance with beauty. Fear pursues glory. It represents a worldview that we need now more than ever: one that loves the human race in all its self-ignorance, its tragic contradictions, and its foolish hopes." —Frederick Turner, Genesis: An Epic Poem "Robin Fox writes with great charm, directness and wit. Since it has been a life of the mind, it is also a lively history of the ideas and events of the mid-to-late twentieth century." —Melvin Konner, The Tangled Wing "Robin Fox, once young rebel, now eminent explainer of social origins, smiter of chicanery and academic pap, is also a literary
Among his best known works are The Imperial Animal (with Lionel Tiger); Kinship and Marriage; The Red Lamp of Incest; The Violent Imagination; The Search for Society and Encounter With Anthropology.. Robin Fox is University Professor of Social Theory at Rutgers University
Participant Observer: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life, by Robin Fox Ever since Kinship and Marriage first appeared in 1967 -- the classic volume that first set forth the ground rules for understanding how kinship systems operate and which today remains the most widely published anthropological textbook -- Robin Fox's work continues to astound, delight, and challenge. In 1971 he and Lionel Tiger published The Imperial Animal, inaugurating a revolution in thinking with their argument that huma. David M. Oestreicher said Participant Observer: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life, by Robin Fox. Ever since Kinship and Marriage first appeared in 1967 -- the classic volume that first set forth the ground rules for understanding how kinship systems operate and which today remains the most widely published anthropological textbook -- Robin Fox's work continues to astound, delight, and challenge. In 1971 he and Lionel Tiger published The Imperial Animal, inaugurating a revolution in thinking with their argument that huma