Tribal Imagination - Civilization and the Savage Mind Fox RobinPevná vazba
Tribal Imagination - Civilization and the Savage Mind Fox RobinPevná vazba We began as savages, and savagery has served us well--it got us where we are. This question, raised by thinkers from Freud…
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Tribal Imagination - Civilization and the Savage Mind Fox RobinPevná vazba
We began as savages, and savagery has served us well--it got us where we are. This question, raised by thinkers from Freud to Levi-Strauss, is fully explored in this book by the acclaimed anthropologist Robin Fox. But how do our tribal impulses, still in place and in play, fit in the highly complex, civilized world we inhabit today?
Ranging from incest and arranged marriage to poetry and myth to human rights and pop icons, Fox sets out to show how a variety of human behaviors reveal traces of their tribal roots, and how this evolutionary past limits our capacity for action. It takes up what he sees as the main--and urgent--task of evolutionary science: not so much to explain what we do, as to explain what we do at our peril. Among the questions he raises: How real is our notion of time?
Is there a human "right" to vengeance? Are we democratic by nature? Are cultural studies and fascism cousins under the skin?
Is evolutionary history coming to an end--or just getting more interesting?In his famously informative and entertaining fashion, drawing links from Volkswagens to Bartok to Woody Guthrie, from Swinburne to Seinfeld, Fox traces our ongoing struggle to maintain open societies in the face of profoundly tribal human needs--needs which, paradoxically, hold the key to our survival.
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Imagination and the University
The Sea and Civilization
Geometry and the Imagination