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Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations – such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China – kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory – all of them tending toward the elephant's ext...(展开全部)

Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations – such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China – kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory – all of them tending toward the elephant's ext...(展开全部)

Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations – such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China – kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory – all of them tending toward the elephant's ext...(展开全部)

Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations – such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China – kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory – all of them tending toward the elephant's ext...(展开全部)

A Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture. Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England; and Simon Pilkings, the colonial distric...(展开全部)

In 1506, Michelangelo – a young but already renowned sculptor – is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci’s design was rejected: ‘You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will g...(展开全部)

马文·哈里斯早年就读于哥伦比亚大学，从师于人类学家查里斯·韦格利，对主张多实地调查、少闭门造车的研究方法极感兴趣。其导师韦格利鼓励他继续留在哥伦比亚大学研究生院学习，并邀他去南美洲进行了一次实地考察。哈里斯发表了调查巴西农村生活状况的论文，并于1953年回哥伦比亚大学执教。现在他为哥伦比亚大学专职教授，在1963年至1966年期间曾任系主任。他对不同人种和种族之间文化交叉的问题和殖民主义的问题很有兴趣，为此曾去莫桑比克进行了实地调查，他在这次调查中形成了自己文化唯物主义的研究方法，此后，他又去厄瓜多尔，最近又去了印度。在发表了4部早期著作之后，他写了一部有影响的著作《人类学的兴起：文化理论史》，他的另一部受欢迎的大学教科书是《文化、人、自然：人类学简介》。哈里斯过去一直在写专业性和教学性的著作，现在打算为更广泛的一般读者写作。他就美洲人的礼仪、习俗和...(展开全部)

马文·哈里斯早年就读于哥伦比亚大学，从师于人类学家查里斯·韦格利，对主张多实地调查、少闭门造车的研究方法极感兴趣。其导师韦格利鼓励他继续留在哥伦比亚大学研究生院学习，并邀他去南美洲进行了一次实地考察。哈里斯发表了调查巴西农村生活状况的论文，并于1953年回哥伦比亚大学执教。现在他为哥伦比亚大学专职教授，在1963年至1966年期间曾任系主任。他对不同人种和种族之间文化交叉的问题和殖民主义的问题很有兴趣，为此曾去莫桑比克进行了实地调查，他在这次调查中形成了自己文化唯物主义的研究方法，此后，他又去厄瓜多尔，最近又去了印度。在发表了4部早期著作之后，他写了一部有影响的著作《人类学的兴起：文化理论史》，他的另一部受欢迎的大学教科书是《文化、人、自然：人类学简介》。哈里斯过去一直在写专业性和教学性的著作，现在打算为更广泛的一般读者写作。他就美洲人的礼仪、习俗和...(展开全部)