This book is designed to give an overview and critical assessment of the developing field of tourism study in anthropology. It aims to engage the reader with questions that anthropologists have raised about tourist and the ways that they have dealt with them in their research. Basic research from three theoretical perspectives is reviewed and assessed: tourist as a form of deve...(展开全部)

Tourism-one of the world's largest industries-has long been appreciated for its economic benefits, but in this volume tourism receives a unique systematic scrutiny as a medium for cultural exchange. Modern developments in technology and industry, together with masterful advertising, have created temporarily leisured people with the desire and the means to travel. They often in ...(展开全部)

厄夫‧錢伯斯（Erve Chambers） 美國馬里蘭大學人類學系退休教授，研究興趣包括觀光、城市與區域發展、知識移轉與利用、民族誌寫作。他曾經在泰國、墨西哥與美國各地做過田野調查，目前的研究與理論關懷主要集中在永續觀光發展。他也對於人類學知識的影響還有人類學知識受到當代文化論述的影響保持濃烈的興趣，並且積極參與馬里蘭大學人類學系的「資源管理與文化過程」（Resource Management and Cultural Process）追蹤研究。除了本書之外，他還寫過《觀光與文化：應用觀點》（Tourism and Culture: An Applied Perspective 1997），跟賽沙（Setha M. Low）合寫《房屋、文化與設計》（Housing, Culture and Design 1989），以及《應用人類學：實踐手冊》（Ap...(展开全部)

厄夫‧錢伯斯（Erve Chambers） 美國馬里蘭大學人類學系退休教授，研究興趣包括觀光、城市與區域發展、知識移轉與利用、民族誌寫作。他曾經在泰國、墨西哥與美國各地做過田野調查，目前的研究與理論關懷主要集中在永續觀光發展。他也對於人類學知識的影響還有人類學知識受到當代文化論述的影響保持濃烈的興趣，並且積極參與馬里蘭大學人類學系的「資源管理與文化過程」（Resource Management and Cultural Process）追蹤研究。除了本書之外，他還寫過《觀光與文化：應用觀點》（Tourism and Culture: An Applied Perspective 1997），跟賽沙（Setha M. Low）合寫《房屋、文化與設計》（Housing, Culture and Design 1989），以及《應用人類學：實踐手冊》（Ap...(展开全部)

Synopsis Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. "Questions of Anthropology" brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns. Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of r...(展开全部)

Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and "performing ethnography" to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings, "Body, Brain, and Culture" links cerebral neurology and anthropology studies in a fascinating interface.

Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications, he analyses how numbers operate within different contexts. The a...(展开全部)

Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is the most productive point of departure in conceptualizing its distinctive...(展开全部)

Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is the most productive point of departure in conceptualizing its distinctive...(展开全部)