ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the account of Robin Fox's life with an adaptation of the biography from his website, partly his own, partly a publisher's summary, to get some of the facts and chronology on the record. Fox was born in the Bronte village of Haworth in the Yorkshire Dales, at the height of the Great Depression in 1934. Robin's latest book, The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind, is dedicated to Claude Levi-Strauss and Ernest Gellner. The book deals with perceptions of time, human rights, Iraq and democracy, sectarianism and animal dispersion, the two sets of the Ten Commandments, incest and in-laws, incest in literature, male bonding in the epics, poetry and the brain, seafood and civilization, Lewis Henry Morgan and the study of the tribes, Karl Popper and the meaning of civilization, and the two traditions of thought he feels drive Western culture. Fox has been hailed as one of the founders of biosocial science.
