Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern’s Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly folded, the manuscript went into storage, where it remained for more tha...(展开全部)

卡尔·洛维特（Karl Lowith）犹太裔德国哲学家。1897年生于慕尼黑，纳粹主政时流亡意大利、日本、美国等地，1952年再度回到德国，于海德堡大学哲学系任教至1964年退休，1973逝世。洛维特的知名著作有：《韦伯与马克思》（1932）、《尼采的永恒回归哲学》（1935）、《布克哈特：这个历史之中的人》（1936）、《欧洲虚无主义：对欧洲战争的前历史的考察》（1940）、《从黑格尔到尼采：十九世纪思想中的革命性断裂》（1941）、《世界历史与救赎历史：历史哲学的神学前提》（1953）、《海德格尔：贫瘠时代的思想家》（1953）与《知识、信仰、怀疑》（1956）等。德国麦兹勒（Metzler）出版社在其辞世后为之出版九大册的作品全集（1981-1988）。 译者简介 区立远台湾大学哲学研究所毕。德国图宾根大学古典语文硕士毕业（拉丁文与希腊文双主修...(展开全部)

Television is a central dimension in our everyday lives and yet its meaning and its potency varies according to our individual circumstances, mediated by the social and cultural worlds which we inhabit. In this fascinating book, Roger Silverstone explores the enigma of television and how it has found its way so profoundly and intimately into the fabric of our everyday lives. Hi...(展开全部)

In order to understand today's Russia and former Soviet republics, it is vital to consider their socialist past. Caroline Humphrey, one of anthropology's most highly regarded thinkers on a number of topics including consumption, identity, and ritual, is the ideal guide to the intricacies of post-Soviet culture. The Unmaking of Soviet Life brings together ten of Humphrey's best ...(展开全部)

厄恩斯特•夏欧伯，丹麦罗斯基勒大学人与技术系教授，研究方向为日常生活中现代技术的社会和政治影响。他也担任国际理论心理学学会（ISTP）主席。 夏洛特•霍霍尔特，丹麦罗斯基勒大学人与技术系教授，研究方向为日常生活的社会心理学。 译者简介：王晓焘，毕业于南京大学社会学系，获法学博士学位。现为南京师范大学社会学与社会工作系讲师，研究方向为家庭社会学，社会学研究方法。主持国家社科基金青年项目1项；在《社会》《青年研究》等学术期刊发表学术论文多篇。

马林诺夫斯基(1884～1942)英国人类学家。功能学派创始人之一。生于波兰，卒于美国。1908年以全奥地利最优等成绩获得物理学和数学博士学位。后到莱比锡奥斯特瓦尔德理化实验室从事研究，受到德国心理学家W.冯特的影响。他在英国人类学家J.G.弗雷泽的《金枝》启发下，开始对人类学发生兴趣。 马林诺夫斯基在学术观点上对进化学派、传播学派和历史学派都持反对态度。他认为，物质器具和社会思想只有在具有满足人类的生物需要和社会需要时 ，才能存留和传播，若失去这种功能，便会在历史上消失。原始文化，例如宗教和巫术，对原始居民具有心理的和社会的需要，原始的氏族和部落机构，适应原始居民生活实际。因此他建议英国殖民当局采取保持原始居民机构的政策，通过原始居民的首领对原始居民实行长期统治。其著作还有《野蛮社会的犯罪和习俗》、《西北美拉尼西亚的野蛮人性生活》、《自由和文明》...(展开全部)

Preston Corporation Tramways was formed in 1904, later becoming Preston Corporation Transport Department. Electric trams, the majority of which were built in Preston, were operated until1935. The firs

In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de...(展开全部)

In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de...(展开全部)