迈克尔•陶西格，1940年出生于澳大利亚，在伦敦经济学院获得人类学博士学位，后在哥伦比亚大学担任人类学教授，以其富有挑战性的民族志研究和非传统的学术风格而闻名。他在医学人类学领域发表了大量的著作，同时他对卡尔•马克思和瓦尔特•本雅明的评论，尤其是关于商品拜物教思想的评论，最为人称道。代表作有《南美洲的恶魔和商品拜物教》《萨满教、殖民主义与野人》《美女与野兽》等。 王浩娉，本科毕业于北京外国语大学，后留学美国明尼苏达大学，曾任社会科学文献出版社学术编辑。 赵玉燕，女，博士，湖南师范大学社会学系副教授、硕士生导师。

迈克尔•陶西格，1940年出生于澳大利亚，在伦敦经济学院获得人类学博士学位，后在哥伦比亚大学担任人类学教授，以其富有挑战性的民族志研究和非传统的学术风格而闻名。他在医学人类学领域发表了大量的著作，同时他对卡尔•马克思和瓦尔特•本雅明的评论，尤其是关于商品拜物教思想的评论，最为人称道。代表作有《南美洲的恶魔和商品拜物教》《萨满教、殖民主义与野人》《美女与野兽》等。 王浩娉，本科毕业于北京外国语大学，后留学美国明尼苏达大学，曾任社会科学文献出版社学术编辑。 赵玉燕，女，博士，湖南师范大学社会学系副教授、硕士生导师。

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A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. When the men and women of the island of Guanahani first made contact with Christopher Columbus and his crew on October 12, 1492, the cultural differences between the two groups were vaster than the oceans that had separated ...(展开全部)

A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. In The Tame and the Wild, Marcy Norton tells a new history of the colonization of the Americas, placing wildlife and livestock at the center of the story. Encounters between European and Indigenous beliefs about animal life trans...(展开全部)

A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. When the men and women of the island of Guanahani first made contact with Christopher Columbus and his crew on October 12, 1492, the cultural differences between the two groups were vaster than the oceans that had separated ...(展开全部)

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The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path.The Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of The Salt Path

After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to...(展开全部)