Schneider challenges the assumptions on which anthropology has depended for the last century by showing that one of the major categories in terms of which social life has been understood is largely untenable. The idea of kinship is subject to penetrating scrutiny. Unlike the proverbial Emperor, it is not that kinship has no clothes. The question is whether there is anything at ...(展开全部)

Schneider challenges the assumptions on which anthropology has depended for the last century by showing that one of the major categories in terms of which social life has been understood is largely untenable. The idea of kinship is subject to penetrating scrutiny. Unlike the proverbial Emperor, it is not that kinship has no clothes. The question is whether there is anything at ...(展开全部)

Displaying an impressive command of complex materials, Seyla Benhabib reconstructs the history of theories from a systematic point of view and examines the origins and transformations of the concept of critique from the works of Hegel to Habermas. Through investigating the model of the philosophy of the subject, she pursues the question of how Hegel's critiques might be useful ...(展开全部)

Recognized as a major work when first published, this title has, over the years, become a classic. Forming the basis of modern social anthropology, We the Tikiopia stands in the forefront of its literature. The book is an excellent example of fieldwork analysis of a primitive society; a complete account of the working of a primitive kinship system; and an exhaustive and sophist...(展开全部)

In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial frameworks that govern the way we perceive the world. Arguing that notions of East vs. West, First World vs. Third World, and even the sevenfold continental system are simplistic and ...(展开全部)

马丁•E. 刘易士（Martin W. Lewis），斯坦福大学高级讲师，曾任教于乔治•华盛顿大学和杜克大学。当前研究方向为全球空间关系的核心-边缘模型，主要关注其在菲律宾和世界历史问题上的应用。曾出版Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism（1994）和Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900-1986（1992）等。 —————————— 卡伦•E. 魏根（Kären E. Wigen），斯坦福大学东亚研究中心主任，教授。主要研究领域包括东亚历史地理、日本的早期现代性、想...(展开全部)

In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial frameworks that govern the way we perceive the world. Arguing that notions of East vs. West, First World vs. Third World, and even the sevenfold continental system are simplistic and ...(展开全部)

马丁•E. 刘易士（Martin W. Lewis），斯坦福大学高级讲师，曾任教于乔治•华盛顿大学和杜克大学。当前研究方向为全球空间关系的核心-边缘模型，主要关注其在菲律宾和世界历史问题上的应用。曾出版Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism（1994）和Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900-1986（1992）等。 —————————— 卡伦•E. 魏根（Kären E. Wigen），斯坦福大学东亚研究中心主任，教授。主要研究领域包括东亚历史地理、日本的早期现代性、想...(展开全部)

Duncan Kennedy is one of the most prominent and influential legal theorists of the day. This is a major effort summarizing, clarifying, and elaborating his views on the core questions of jurisprudence. Kennedy's argument is about the political nature of legal, and especially judicial, decisionmaking. It follows directly and self-consciously in a centuries-old line of debate tha...(展开全部)

Duncan Kennedy is one of the most prominent and influential legal theorists of the day. This is a major effort summarizing, clarifying, and elaborating his views on the core questions of jurisprudence. Kennedy's argument is about the political nature of legal, and especially judicial, decisionmaking. It follows directly and self-consciously in a centuries-old line of debate tha...(展开全部)