Reproduction and Succession: Studies in Anthropology, Law, and Society

by Robin Fox

The basis of this extraordinary effort, the first in a trilogy of foundation volumes in anthropology, is that all history is the history of reproduction and succession--in other words, of kinship. Fox claims that anthropology seems to have forgotten this, while sociology never did grasp it, getting bogged down in something called the family. Economics and psychology for their part were never of much help in the pursuits of cultural universals. If...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560000678
• ISBN13: 9781560000679
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.