Men In Groups
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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What compels men to form gangs, armies, sports teams, and brotherhoods — and what does this ancient impulse reveal about human nature itself? In Men in Groups, anthropologist Lionel Tiger presents a bold and groundbreaking argument: that male bonding is not a social accident but a deep-seated biological drive, one that has shaped civilisations from the warrior bands of ancient history to the scrum of a rugby pitch and the disciplined ranks of kamikaze pilots. Drawing on evolutionary biology, ethology, and cross-cultural anthropology, Tiger constructs a compelling case that all-male associations are a universal feature of human society, rooted in our primate past and reinforced through millennia of collective survival. Tiger's work is both provocative and rigorous, cutting against the grain of mid-twentieth-century social science by insisting that biology cannot be neatly separated from culture. Men in Groups challenges readers to reconsider the forces that underpin male-dominated institutions — political, military, and recreational — and asks uncomfortable questions about power, exclusion, and the instincts we inherit rather than choose. Decades after its first publication, the book retains a sharp, unsettling relevance: just how much of what men do together is truly a matter of free will?
Author: Lionel Tiger
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthropology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What compels men to form gangs, armies, sports teams, and brotherhoods — and what does this ancient impulse reveal about human nature itself? In Men in Groups, anthropologist Lionel Tiger presents a bold and groundbreaking argument: that male bonding is not a social accident but a deep-seated biological drive, one that has shaped civilisations from the warrior bands of ancient history to the scrum of a rugby pitch and the disciplined ranks of kamikaze pilots. Drawing on evolutionary biology, ethology, and cross-cultural anthropology, Tiger constructs a compelling case that all-male associations are a universal feature of human society, rooted in our primate past and reinforced through millennia of collective survival. Tiger's work is both provocative and rigorous, cutting against the grain of mid-twentieth-century social science by insisting that biology cannot be neatly separated from culture. Men in Groups challenges readers to reconsider the forces that underpin male-dominated institutions — political, military, and recreational — and asks uncomfortable questions about power, exclusion, and the instincts we inherit rather than choose. Decades after its first publication, the book retains a sharp, unsettling relevance: just how much of what men do together is truly a matter of free will?