The character of human institutions /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Egan, Michael, 1941- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [2014]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • This guy, Fox / Lionel Tiger
  • A tribute and personal thanks / Michael Mcguire
  • Popularity and drink
  • Writing popular anthropology / Kate Fox
  • Drink and duty: extreme drinking rituals in the british army / Anne Fox
  • Laughter and happiness
  • Understanding laughter / Sir Antony Jay
  • Joyous equal and free: conditions of felicity in human organizations / Charles Macdonald
  • Kinship and incest
  • Kinship constructed us: the implications of primate studies for cultural anthropology / Linda Stone
  • Lighting the red lamp of incest / Alexandra Maryanski and Jonathan Turner
  • Darwin and cousin marriage in england / Adam Kuper
  • Self and epic
  • The image of the good imperial education / Alan Macfarlane
  • The ethnography of the self:
  • Anthropologists? autobiographies / David Jenkins
  • The universal epic: a research challenge / Frederick Turner
  • Nature and society
  • From human nature to human society: why anthropology cannot ignore biological constants / Bernard Chapais
  • The changing nature of human nature / H. Dieter Steklis:
  • Science and anti-science in anthropology: a look back / Mel Konner
  • Finale
  • The consumerist cosmos / Howard Bloom
  • Last word: the razors edge / Robin Fox.