Everyone eats, but rarely do we ask why or investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons for why humans eat, resulting in a unique cultural and b...(展开全部)

Everyone eats, but rarely do we ask why or investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons for why humans eat, resulting in a unique cultural and b...(展开全部)

In this companion volume to Reading the Popular, Fiske presents a radical theory of what it means for culture to be popular.

Summary Focusing on the material as culture from newer perspectives applied to contemporary consumption, Woodward (cultural sociology, Griffith U., Australia) surveys diverse approaches (e.g., sociological, psychological, marketing, cross-disciplinary) to studying people-object relations as a lens on the values of modern consumer society. Case studies (e.g., of homes, objects i...(展开全部)

这本书据说是美国传媒学的最畅销书 当初对传媒及其着迷打算去米国读这个专业的时候毫不犹豫的就买了这本书 但是是影印版 看来原版的封面更好看 但是内容是一样的 。。。。。。

Do your students understand how they are affected by the media they use? Do they understand how technology works, develops and changes over time? MEDIA NOW is the first mass communication text to encourage students to think critically about the media and its effects on culture and also provide them with a thorough understanding of how the media technologies develop, operate, co...(展开全部)

马文・哈里斯是当代著名的人类学家，先后出版了二十多种专著，其中《文化唯物主义》和《文化的起源》等，在20世纪80年代均有了中译本。他的著述风格十分鲜明，观点独到，视野开阔，高深而又平易，雄辩而又详实。 马文・哈里斯的研究思路代表着学术发展的一种前沿方向，即从自然科学与人文社会科学的结合部上去探索，动用各种可能的学科资源去求解人与文化之谜。《好吃：食物与文化之谜》正是这种方法的极好例证。