We began as savages, and savagery has served us well it got us
where we are. But how do our tribal impulses, still in place and in
play, fit in the highly complex, civilized world we inhabit today?
This question, raised by thinkers from Freud to Levi-Strauss, is
fully explored in this book by the acclaimed anthropologist Robin
Fox. 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.
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. 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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