The Red Lamp of Incest

Self-Help

FOX, Robin

Personal Transformation

Hutchinson & Co.

Robin Lane Fox's accessible and erudite life of Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on the living actuality of the man and his experience--'It is tempting', he concludes, 'to see in Alexander the romantic's complex nature for the first time in Greek history.' Beautifully written perceptive and fluent, it is a superb example of historical scholarship and psychological insight.

Alexander the Great

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin??Books

Softback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings,in fair all round condition, suitable as a reading copy.

Kinship and Marriage: An Anthropological Perspective

Parenting & Relationships

This volume is at once an introduction to anthropology, an account of a personal odyssey, and a call for action. Acknowledged as one of anthropology's most brilliant practitioners, Robin Fox shows in a series of linked essays on such topics as race, evolution, sex, marriage, language, and witchcraft, and the range, potential, and inheritent weaknesses of anthropology as a science. The author offers a view of the human side of anthropology, as well as its ruthlessly professional side--a side he characterizes as so obsessed with field work and obsolete ideology that it is failing its task of exploring human nature.

Encounter with anthropology (Peregrine books)

Penguin

Encounter With Anthropology

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Refutes the widely accepted notion that the taboos against mother-son and father-daughter sexual relations are universal, arguing that our anxiety about the issue is an illuminating indication of our past history and current condition

The Red Lamp of Incest: An Enquiry into the Origins of Mind and Society

Univ of Notre Dame Pr

The Tory Islanders, an established classic of anthropological writing and analysis, is an account of a unique people: a group of Gaelic-speaking islanders located nine miles off the coast of Donegal in the extreme northwest of Ireland. Their roots go back to pre-Christian Ireland, and in their isolation they have maintained ways of life that have disappeared on the mainland and the rest of Europe. Perhaps in no other place is the archaic structure of the peasantry so well preserved - not unchanged, but ingeniously adapted to fit old customs to new uses. The book describes the history, legends, demography, genealogies, kinship, land tenure, boat crews, and household and marriage arrangements (where it was customary for many husbands and wives not to live in the same house.) In addition, Robin Fox conveys the spirit and humor of the islanders, which, he claims, represent a continuing hymn to the human capacity to survive and adapt. The author has written a new preface specially for this edition.

Tory Islanders: A People Of The Celtic Fringe

History

Europe

University of Notre Dame Press

This is an unusual excursion into American Indian culture history by a British social anthropologist. It examines theories of the development of different Pueblo social structures, with particular attention to Eggan. From a detailed re-analysis of the evidence and a consideration of material from the Eastern Keresan Pueblo of Cochiti, based on his own fieldwork, Dr Fox concludes that the theory that all Pueblos were derived from a common base is no longer tenable, and that a diversity of origins is more probable. Apart from its contribution to Amerindian studies, the book is of particular interest as an approach to modern culture history by a social anthropologist.

The Keresan Bridge (LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

Keresan Bridge: A Problem in Pueblo Ethnology (LSE)

University of London: The Athlone Press

London 1978 1st Cambridge. Hardcover. Octavo, 210pp., photo illustrations, cloth. Fine in Good plus DJ, a bit soiled and lightly worn.

The Tory Islanders: A people of the Celtic fring

Anthropology

Cambridge University Press

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