Robin Fox

Robin Fox (born 1934) is an English 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, entitled Watching the English.

Books

• The Keresan Bridge: A Problem in Pueblo Ethnology. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology. Berg Publishers. 1967. p. 208. ISBN 9781845200015. 
• (with Lionel Tiger) The Imperial Animal. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1971. p. 308. ISBN 978-0-03-086582-4. 
• The Tory Islanders: A People of the Celtic Fringe. Cambridge University Press. 1978. p. 210. ISBN 9780521292986. 
• Kinship and marriage: an anthropological perspective. Cambridge studies in social anthropology 50. Cambridge University Press. 1983. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-521-27823-2. 
• The Red Lamp of Incest: An Enquiry Into the Origins of Mind and Society. University of Notre Dame Press. 1983. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-268-01620-3. 
• The search for society: quest for a biosocial science and morality. Rutgers University Press. 1989. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-8135-1488-8. 
• Encounter with anthropology (2nd ed.). Transaction Publishers. 1991. p. 338. ISBN 978-0-88738-870-5. 
• Reproduction and Succession: Studies in Anthropology, Law, and Society. Transaction Publishers. 1993. p. 269. ISBN 978-1-56000-924-5. 
• The Challenge of Anthropology: Old Encounters and New Excursions. Transaction Publishers. 1994. p. 431. ISBN 978-1-56000-827-9. 
• Conjectures & confrontations: science, evolution, social concern. Transaction Publishers. 1997. p. 212. ISBN 978-1-56000-286-4. 
• The passionate mind: sources of destruction & creativity (2nd ed.). Transaction Publishers. 2000. p. 331. ISBN 978-0-7658-0632-1. 
• Participant observer: memoir of a transatlantic life. Transaction Publishers. 2004. p. 575. ISBN 978-0-7658-0238-5. 
• The tribal imagination: Civilization and the savage mind. Harvard University Press. 2011. p. 417. ISBN 978-0-674-05901-6. 

References

External links

• "Robin Fox". Social Issues Research Centre. Retrieved 2010-07-16. 
• Biography at the Wayback Machine (archived December 17, 2007)