First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude Levi-Strauss called, in an introduction to that edition, the astonishing modernity of the mind of one o...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Offers a fascinating snapshot of magic throughout various cultures as well as deep sociological and religious insights still very much relevant today.

【作者】若泽·爱德华多·阿瓜卢萨（José Eduardo Agualusa） 1960年出生于安哥拉，曾在葡萄牙学习农学和林学，作家、记者，著作颇丰，其作品已被翻译成25种语言出版。 近年来，阿瓜卢萨在英语世界声名鹊起，成为当代安哥拉乃至整个葡语世界的代表作家。2007年凭借《贩卖过去的人》获英国《独立报》外国小说奖，是该奖设立以来首位获奖的非洲作家。《遗忘通论》入围2016年布克国际奖决选名单并获得2017年国际都柏林文学奖。 【译者】王渊，文学博士，译有《所有的名字》《大象旅行记》等文学作品。

On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home. The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, g...(展开全部)

Drawing comparisons to the most eloquent science writing of our day, three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human heart with what has only recently been learned about the primitive functions of the human brain. The result is an original, lucid, at times moving account of the comp...(展开全部)

【作者】若泽·爱德华多·阿瓜卢萨（José Eduardo Agualusa） 1960年出生于安哥拉，曾在葡萄牙学习农学和林学，作家、记者，著作颇丰，其作品已被翻译成25种语言出版。 近年来，阿瓜卢萨在英语世界声名鹊起，成为当代安哥拉乃至整个葡语世界的代表作家。2007年凭借《贩卖过去的人》获英国《独立报》外国小说奖，是该奖设立以来首位获奖的非洲作家。《遗忘通论》入围2016年布克国际奖决选名单并获得2017年国际都柏林文学奖。 【译者】王渊，文学博士，译有《所有的名字》《大象旅行记》等文学作品。

Drawing comparisons to the most eloquent science writing of our day, three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human heart with what has only recently been learned about the primitive functions of the human brain. The result is an original, lucid, at times moving account of the comp...(展开全部)

On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home. The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, g...(展开全部)

By articulating a general theory of crime and related behavior, the authors present a new and comprehensive statement of what the criminological enterprise should be about. They argue that prevalent academic criminology—whether sociological, psychological, biological, or economic—has been unable to provide believable explanations of criminal behavior. The long-discarded classic...(展开全部)

What is cultural about vision - or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, "A General Theory of Visual Culture" argues that, in a fully consolidated visual culture, artifa...(展开全部)