Background
Tiger, Lionel was born on February 5, 1937 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Martin and Lillian (Schneider) Tiger.
( When Men in Groups was first published in l969, the New...)
When Men in Groups was first published in l969, the New York Times daily critic titled his review "The Disturbing Rediscovery of the Obvious." What was so obvious was male bonding, a phrase that entered the language. The links between males in groups Tiger describes extend through many other primate species, through our evolution as hunters/gatherers, and cross-culturally. Male bonding characterizes human groups as varied as the Vatican Council, the New York Yankees, the Elks and Masons the secret societies of Sierra Leone and Kenya.The power of Tiger's book is its identification of the powerful links between men and the impact of females and families on essentially male groups. While the world has changed much, the argument of the book and its new introduction by the author suggest that a species-specific pattern ofámale bonding continues to be part of the human default system. Perhaps one day concrete evidence of its location will emerge from the startling work on the human genome, just as the elaborate and consequential sex differences to which Men in Groups drew such pioneering attention have already become part of the common wisdom. Meanwhile, Men in Groups remains a measured andáresponsibleábut intrepid inspection of a major aspect of human social organization and personal behavior. The book was controversial when it first appeared, and often foolishly and unduly scorned. But it has remained a fundamental contribution to the emerging synthesis between the social and natural sciences.
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It is widely held that humanity is now in a terrible tangle of moral, ethical, and social confusion. IN this ambitious new book an eminent anthropologist explains why we are in a this unsatisfactory state, where we are going, and what can be done about it.
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(How do women act when they are freed from most household ...)
How do women act when they are freed from most household chores, economically independent of their husbands, and have been living apart from their children from the time the children were approximately four weeks old? Given equal and similar social circumstances, do men and women behave in the same way in politics? the economy? warfare? ls equality of the sexes a viable concept, after all? Two important social scientists have asked these questions of and about the women in that provocative human experiment, the Israeli kibbutz. The conclusions are startling. The result is a major and myth exploding contribution to the literature of feminism and of utopias. Based on the lives of 34,040 kibbutz dwellers, and supported by tables, graphs, interviews, and elaborate computerized data, WOMEN IN THE KIBBUTZ provides the facts essential for a discussion, which has been until now all too rhetorical, of how women everywhere want to live a discussion set amid the current controversies about sex, gender, nature, and power. Here is a book that may change the very rules of discussion about men and women..
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( The Imperial Animal offers a compelling perspective on ...)
The Imperial Animal offers a compelling perspective on the controversy over humans and their biology. This now-classic study is about the social bonds that hold us together and the antisocial theories that drive us apart. The authors divulge how the evolutionary past of the species, reflected in genetic codes, determines our present and coerces our future. This book gives us a direct and intimate look at how we see ourselves. It offers insight into our politics, our ways of learning and teaching, reproducing and producing, playing and fighting. The authors assert that the purpose of this book is twofold: to describe what is known about the evolution of human behavior, and then to try to show how the consequences of this evolution affect our behavior today. To do this they draw from numerous disciplines—zoology, biology, history, and primatology, among others. In the new introduction, Tiger and Fox outline then- reasons for originally writing the book as well as the process they used to do their research. The Imperial Animal is a classic work that will continue to be of interest to sociologists, zoologists, biologists, and primatologists.
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(From Publishers Weekly First published in 1979, Rutgers p...)
From Publishers Weekly First published in 1979, Rutgers professor Tiger explores the human trait of believing in hope and improvement. Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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(The lively and provocative essays in this collection are ...)
The lively and provocative essays in this collection are the product of Lionel Tiger's brief but exuberant career as a newspaper columnist. Written for the New York Press, Daily News, New Yorker, and Wall Street Journal in 1998-2002, they range from condemnation of greedy political and stock-option malefactors to celebration of Cleo Laine, reflection upon mass tourism to reminiscence of Pierre Trudeau, grousing about the American legal profession to praise for the New York subway system, discussion of contemporary American eating habits to commentary on "the fatuity of much of modern feminism."
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(The author identifies some major forms of pleasure - sex,...)
The author identifies some major forms of pleasure - sex, food, drugs, pets, plants, power and more - and explores their variations now and in the past. Pleasure, says Tiger, is not a luxury but an evolutionary entitlement that deserves to be taken seriously. He tackles a variety of complex and larger issues, such as the historic link between religion, public policy and the control of pleasure and the fact that some pleasures reflect our hunter-gatherer pasts - for example, the way we still respond to the warmth, physical and psychological, of a fire. But he also looks at the lighter side of pleasure and what it means, from a taste for barbecue to the sensual enjoyment of a kiss.
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Tiger, Lionel was born on February 5, 1937 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Martin and Lillian (Schneider) Tiger.
Bachelor, McGill University, 1957. Master of Arts, McGill University, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, University London, 1963.
He is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and co-Research Director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He is a graduate of McGill University, and the London School of Economics at the University of London, England. He is also a consultant to the United States. Department of Defense on the future of biotechnology.
Some of Tiger"s works have included controversial concepts, including the biological origins of social interactions.
Tiger published a work, The Imperial Animal, with Robin Fox in 1972, that advocated a "social carnivore theory" of human evolution. Tiger has predicted the higher status of women within society, in books such as The Decline of Males and He has also written books such as The Pursuit of Pleasure, which discussed the concept that evolution has established the biological mechanisms of pleasure and that they have survival origins.
Lionel Tiger lives in New York City, and regularly contributes to mainstream media such as Psychology Today and The New York Times.
(Tiger a distinguished anthropologist contends that the se...)
(How do women act when they are freed from most household ...)
(The author identifies some major forms of pleasure - sex,...)
( When Men in Groups was first published in l969, the New...)
(The lively and provocative essays in this collection are ...)
(From Publishers Weekly First published in 1979, Rutgers p...)
( The Imperial Animal offers a compelling perspective on ...)
( It is widely held that humanity is now in a terrible ta...)
( Disproportionate attention has long been paid to males ...)
( Pleasure is biologically desirable and good for physica...)
Cultural laureate New York City Landmarks Foundation, 1999. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (member executive board, treasurer 1988-1991, vice president 1991-1994), American Anthropological Association, International Humanist Association (humanist laureate), Canada Humanists Association (honorary), Society for Study of Evolution, Century Association.
Married Virginia Conner, August 19, 1964. 1 child, Sebastian Benjamin.