Bob McCubbin

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 5

Promiscuous primates Did Bronislaw Malinowski’s conception of “a primeval and unchanging one-man, one-woman” marriage emerge 5, 6, 7 or 8…

June 24, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 4

Marx & Engels on Morgan As noted previously, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels found Morgan’s analysis of pre-class and early…

June 13, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 3

What was Lewis Henry Morgan’s contribution? The 550 pages of Lewis Henry Morgan’s “Ancient Society” (Tucson: University of Arizona Press,…

June 6, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 2

The challenge of uncovering human prehistory Part 1 of this series focused on the counterrevolution in anthropology that arose in…

May 30, 2013

San Diego labor demands immigrant rights

More than 550 janitorial workers in San Diego lost their jobs on May 17 as a result of employment audits…

May 25, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage’

Part 1: Two schools of thought lock horns Supreme Court decisions are expected sometime in June on the constitutionality of…

May 22, 2013

Chavela Vargas: A rebel artist who thrilled millions

Chavela Vargas, born Isabel Vargas Lizano in the town of San Joaquín de Flores, Costa Rica, died at the age…

August 23, 2012

San Diego Pride march

The underlying meaning of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Pride marches held each year in the United States…

July 25, 2012