Our understanding of what makes a person a relative has been transformed by radical changes in marriage arrangements and gender relations, and by new reproductive technologies. We can no longer take it for granted that our most fundamental social relationships are grounded in 'biology' or 'nature'. These developments have prompted anthropologists to take a fresh look at idioms ...(展开全部)

In Europe it was called the Age of Discovery. To the rest of the world, it often meant slavery, epidemic disease, cultural genocide, and wholesale social and economic changes. What happened in the period when Europe first came in contact with the rest of the world? In this new edition of Brian Fagan's Clash of Cultures, the best-selling author offers a series of fascinating cas...(展开全部)

作者 布赖恩·M.费根（Brian M. Fagan） 世界顶级的考古学家，也是国际公认的世界史前史研究权威。 费根出生于英国伯明翰，曾在剑桥大学彭布罗克学院学习考古学，是美国加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉分校荣誉退休教授。著有多部畅销书和考古学专业大学教科书，并主编了《牛津考古学指南》。曾获美国考古学协会“公共教育奖”“主席嘉许奖”，专业考古学家学会“杰出服务奖”。目前国内已引进的作品包括《世界史前史》《考古学入门》《床的人类史》《小冰河时代》《考古学与史前文明》《掠夺尼罗河》《洪水、饥馑与帝王》《大暖化》等。 译者 乔苏婷 历史学博士，毕业于北京大学考古文博学院。爱好文字工作，曾担任人文领域公众交流平台栏目编辑。

作者 布赖恩·M.费根（Brian M. Fagan） 世界顶级的考古学家，也是国际公认的世界史前史研究权威。 费根出生于英国伯明翰，曾在剑桥大学彭布罗克学院学习考古学，是美国加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉分校荣誉退休教授。著有多部畅销书和考古学专业大学教科书，并主编了《牛津考古学指南》。曾获美国考古学协会“公共教育奖”“主席嘉许奖”，专业考古学家学会“杰出服务奖”。目前国内已引进的作品包括《世界史前史》《考古学入门》《床的人类史》《小冰河时代》《考古学与史前文明》《掠夺尼罗河》《洪水、饥馑与帝王》《大暖化》等。 译者 乔苏婷 历史学博士，毕业于北京大学考古文博学院。爱好文字工作，曾担任人文领域公众交流平台栏目编辑。

How do cities use culture today? Building on the experience of New York as a "culture capital" Sharon Zukin shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - are reshaping urban places and conflicts over revitalization. She rejects the idea that cities have either a singular urban culture or many different subcultures to argue that cultures are ...(展开全部)

This lavishly illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship in the history of natural history. Public interest in this lively field has been stimulated by environmental concerns and through links with the histories of art, collecting and gardening. Twenty-four specially commissioned essays cover the period from the six...(展开全部)

A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. "The Cultures of Globalization" presents an international panel of intellectuals who consider the process of globalization as it concerns the transformation of the economic into...(展开全部)

The workings of Western intelligence in our day—whether in politics or the arts, in the humanities or the church—are as troubling as they are mysterious, leading to the questions: Where are we going? What in the world were we thinking? By exploring the history of four “cultures” so deeply embedded in Western history that we rarely see their instrumental role in politics, religi...(展开全部)

John W. O'malley是韦斯顿耶稣会士人文学院杰出的文化史教授

Over the past 25 years, Boyd and Richerson have become well-known across a wide range of disciplines for their path-breaking work on evolution and culture. This work collects twenty of the influential but relatively inaccessible published articels that form the backbone of this research. It could not be more timely given the growing influence of evolutionary psychology. The pap...(展开全部)