ENCOUNTER WITH ANTHROPOLOGY
Paperback: 338 pages
Publisher: (Original, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1973)
     Current: Transaction Publishers
     (With a new concluding chapter by the author)
     www.transactionpub.com
ISBN: 0-88738-870-1

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This is another book that has never been out of print since its original publication and has been the introduction to anthropology for many now prominent in the field. It includes an essay on Race that Margaret Mead called "the best short piece on the subject," and further essays on sex, kinship and the family, marriage and modern literature, a New Mexico Pueblo, an Irish island, American Indian religion, witchcraft, and language. The essay "The Cultural Animal" was one of the first programmatic statements of the biosocial (bio-cultural) movement, and has been reproduced in many other places.

From the original jacket cover:

"Professor Fox is that rarest of scientists, a leader in his field, a courageous defender of common sense against dogma, and a man who can write. His lucid, witty, unassumingly learned book will tell you not only what the science of man has become, but also what it might become someday." Robert Ardrey, author of African Genesis, The Territorial Imperative, The Social Contract, etc.

Reviews:

"Delightful. A bold stimulating and original analysis of a very difficult subject." Pittsburgh Press

"One of the most exciting books to fall into the layman's lap… With fresh language and pleasing irreverence, Mr. Fox tosses out his ideas… His audience has the benefit of evidence gleaned by an impartial and passionate mind; the reader can chew and digest or spit out – but at least he will think." The Saturday Evening Post

"Whether the essays deal with particular cultures or with man in general, all display sympathy, wit, learning, and acumen." The New Yorker