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The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind Hardcover – April 7, 2011

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  • Hardcover: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press (March 8, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0674059018
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674059016
  • Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.2 x 9.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,366,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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By Thomas Kiefer on November 24, 2011
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This seems to be a collection of essays which have been published before here and there, re-edited, with some added transitions. As a fellow anthropologist there is not much of a major sort that I disagree with, aside form the occasional crabby detail. Overall, the book is quite good reading, but is certainly not the magnum opus of Professor Fox.
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The Tribal Imagination by Robin Fox:

For America in the 21st century the defining issue has been the relationship between societies in which sympathy and trust are confined to family, kin and a very exclusive tribe and societies in which one is expected to offer trust and accept trust from strangers. That has also been the defining issue for all those other countries and all those other centuries touched by history.

The two mental sets are not symmetrical. One was hammered out over two or three million years of hominid evolution. The other was cobbled together by a relatively small group of men and women over two or three hundred years and has yet to prove its durability politically, environmentally, economically, psychologically or demographically; if one of those cards is removed the house falls.

The opportunity for extended trust was always there, but the exclusive mode was dominant for evolutionary time. Evolution’s verdict seems to be: mate out but not too far out; don’t marry a childhood playmate; if you are male bond with males and nurture women, if female subvert male bonds and nurture children; only trust or help family; there are rules. From such beginnings the inclusive societies somehow evolved; the study of such evolution also involved. Neither process has been without its snags.

Across such great chasms societies gaze with mutual incomprehension and precious little self understanding, unwilling to compromise and all too willing to use deadly force. Regrettable things happen.

Robin Fox explains that beneath the smooth and undeniably wealth producing surface of our inclusive societies throb the ancient drumbeats of the default mode, of the exclusive social model.
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This work really helped think about my current research on Ancient Rome. Thanks to the author for a great resource from an anthropological perspective.
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It is very disappointing to discover that in place of several maps that are an integral part of the text of this book, there is a statement in this Kindle edition saying "To view this map consult the print edition of this book." It is therefore false advertising to suggest that this is the same as the print edition.

Moreover, in spite of the fact that the book was recently published there are no page numbers, which are essential for a scholarly book.

The content of the book, however, rates a full five stars.
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Astonishing in its breadth, intelligence and the perspective it provides on modern civilization through the lens of human evolution . ..
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