Fox, Robin

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FOX, Robin

FOX, Robin. British, b. 1934. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology. Career: University of Exeter, England, lecturer in sociology, 1959-62; London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, England, lecturer in social anthropology, 1962-67, Malinowski Memorial Lecturer, 1967; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, professor of anthropology, 1967-84, university professor of social theory, 1984-; writer. Guggenheim Foundation, director of research, 1972-84; Oxford University, visiting professor of anthropology, 1973-74; University of New Mexico, Byron Harvey III Lecturer, 1975; Haverford College, William Pyle Phillips Lecturer, 1976; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, University of Paris VI, associate director of studies, 1979-80; visiting professor, Universidad de los Andes, 1981-82, and University of California, San Diego, 1982; Smith College, Neal B. De Nood Memorial Lecturer, 1982; St. John's College, Cambridge, visiting professor and senior overseas scholar, 1982-83. Conducted field work among the Pueblos of New Mexico and the Gaelic-speaking islanders of Donegal. Publications: The Keresan Bridge: A Problem in Pueblo Ethnography, 1967; Kinship and Marriage, 1967; (with L. Tiger) The Imperial Animal, 1971; Encounter with Anthropology, 1973; (ed. and contrib.) Biosocial Anthropology, 1975; The Tory Islanders: A People of the Celtic Fringe, 1978; The Red Lamp of Incest, 1980; (ed. and contrib. with J. Mehler) Neonate Cognition: Beyond the Blooming Buzzing Confusion, 1984; The Violent Imagination, 1989; The Search for Society: Quest for a Biosocial Science and Morality, 1989; Reproduction and Succession, 1993; The Challenge of Anthropology, 1994; Conjectures and Confrontations, 1997; The Passionate Mind: Sources of Destruction and Creativity, 2000. Address: Department of Anthropology, Douglass Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, U.S.A.