At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological research-one where the four fields of anthropology are synthesized to address the multidimensionality of the effects to a community’s social structures and relationship to the environment. Using a variety of natural and technological disast...(展开全部)

At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological research-one where the four fields of anthropology are synthesized to address the multidimensionality of the effects to a community's social structures and relationship to the environment. Using a variety of natural and technological disast...(展开全部)

Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century - world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust - grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence, burns books and shatters meaning? "The Writing of the Disaster" reflects u...(展开全部)

Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century - world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust - grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence, burns books and shatters meaning? "The Writing of the Disaster" reflects u...(展开全部)

关于作者 莫里斯•布朗肖（Maurice Blanchot），法国著名作家、思想家，1907年生于索恩-卢瓦尔，2003年逝世于巴黎。布朗肖一生行事低调，中年后不接受采访与摄影，但他的作品和思想影响了整个法国当代思想界，对法国许多大知识分子和大作家如乔治‧巴塔耶、列维纳斯、萨特、福柯、罗兰‧巴特、德里达等都影响深远。 关于译者 魏舒 南京大学法语系硕士，曾执教于法国公立大学，现居北京，担任童书策划人及译者，策划并翻译《花园小象波米诺》《书中有座美术馆》等畅销童书。邮箱：[email protected] 吴博， 男，1982年生。法国勒芒大学英语语言文学学士、巴黎四大(索邦)英语文学硕士；曾就读于法国勒芒大学法语强化学习班，获巴黎三大法语对外教育硕士学位及法语深度学习证书（DALF）。现为南京大学法语系博士研究生。译著有《在适当时刻》（莫里斯...(展开全部)

关于作者 莫里斯•布朗肖（Maurice Blanchot），法国著名作家、思想家，1907年生于索恩-卢瓦尔，2003年逝世于巴黎。布朗肖一生行事低调，中年后不接受采访与摄影，但他的作品和思想影响了整个法国当代思想界，对法国许多大知识分子和大作家如乔治‧巴塔耶、列维纳斯、萨特、福柯、罗兰‧巴特、德里达等都影响深远。 关于译者 魏舒 南京大学法语系硕士，曾执教于法国公立大学，现居北京，担任童书策划人及译者，策划并翻译《花园小象波米诺》《书中有座美术馆》等畅销童书。邮箱：[email protected] 吴博， 男，1982年生。法国勒芒大学英语语言文学学士、巴黎四大(索邦)英语文学硕士；曾就读于法国勒芒大学法语强化学习班，获巴黎三大法语对外教育硕士学位及法语深度学习证书（DALF）。现为南京大学法语系博士研究生。译著有《在适当时刻》（莫里斯...(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)

Product Description "We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but [Stocking's]: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual connections, and c...(展开全部)