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Dostoevskians in Darwinland - Gender Models in the Evolution of Political Behavior - The Impact of Rape and Genocide in post-Neolithic East Europe (Paperback)
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Dostoevskians in Darwinland - Gender Models in the Evolution of Political Behavior - The Impact of Rape and Genocide in post-Neolithic East Europe (Paperback)
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The "Tyrant-Victim" dyad, put forward by Gary Cox three decades
ago, was acclaimed as a key to understanding Dostoevsky's novels.
Now Cox uses the concept to ask, and answer, telling questions
about the evolution of Slavic culture, language, and politics. What
is the link between patriarchy as a kinship system and patriarchal
political culture? What role was played by sexual violence and
policies of extermination as this link evolved? Was the moral
landscape of east Europe in the age of migrations, when Slavic
culture and language were taking trhe shape they have today,
anything like the scene of the Yugoslav conflict of the 1990s? How
did the interplay between herders and farmers in east Europe
between 500 before-the-common-era (BC) and 500 Common Era (a.k.a.
AD) impact the evolution of proto-Slavic culture? Was authoritarian
political culture the inevitable result? Why did the Indo-European
word-root 'pater' (Lat., "father") disappear from Slavic languages,
replaced by a derivative from the word for 'uncle'? The classic
Slavic folktale (and not only Slavic) relates the hero's departure
from a troubled homeland and his conquests and marriage in foreign
lands. Is this a pretty adventure or a mythic reframing of what was
originally invasion and conquest rape? These questions are explored
in the context of evolutionary psychology (forgive me, Fyodor
Mikhailovich ), which can reveal startling new insights in
materials that have been taken for granted. Why Dostoevsky? How is
the "tyrant-victim dyad" reflected in great works of Russian
literature, as well as in political culture and everyday life?
Finally, what's the "take-away" from all this, in terms of everyday
people in authoritarian cultures? How does it affect their sense of
the effectiveness of their own political behavior?
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