Robin Fox

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 titled Watching the English.

Books

• Kinship and marriage: an anthropological perspective. Cambridge studies in social anthropology. 50. Cambridge University Press. 1983. pp. 273. ISBN 9780521278232. 
• The search for society: quest for a biosocial science and morality. Rutgers University Press. 1989. pp. 264. ISBN 9780813514888. 
• Encounter with anthropology. Transaction Publishers. 1991. pp. 338. ISBN 9780887388705. 
• Reproduction and Succession: Studies in Anthropology, Law, and Society. Transaction Publishers. 1993. pp. 269. ISBN 9781560009245. 
• The Challenge of Anthropology: Old Encounters and New Excursions. Transaction Publishers. 1994. pp. 431. ISBN 9781560008279. 
• Conjectures & confrontations: science, evolution, social concern. Transaction Publishers. 1997. pp. 212. ISBN 9781560002864. 
• The passionate mind: sources of destruction & creativity (2nd ed.). Transaction Publishers. 2000. pp. 331. ISBN 9780765806321. 
• Participant observer: memoir of a transatlantic life. Transaction Publishers. 2004. pp. 575. ISBN 9780765802385. 

References

External links

• "Robin Fox". Social Issues Research Centre. http://www.sirc.org/about/robin_fox.html. Retrieved 2010-07-16. 
• Biography at the Wayback Machine (archived December 17, 2007)