Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. "Expectations of Modernity" explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 · 詹姆斯•弗格森（James Ferguson），美国人类学家，主要从事国际发展的政治学和人类学研究，以其深刻的发展批判立场而闻名。他曾获加利福尼亚大学圣塔芭芭拉分校文学学士学位，并于1985年获哈佛大学社会人类学博士学位。1999～2003年担任加利福尼亚大学欧文分校人类学系主任，并于2010年被开普敦大学聘为荣誉教授，现任斯坦福大学人文与科学学院教授，人类学系主任。 · 其主要研究地区为南部非洲（以莱索托、赞比亚、南非和纳米比亚为主），涉及广泛的理论和民族志研究问题，包括发展的政治学、城乡人口迁移、地区财富的变迁、矿业城镇的城市文化等。主要著作有《反政治机器：莱索托的“发展”》（1990）、《文化、权力和地方：批判人类学探究》（1997）、《人类学的田野：田野研究的边界和地点》（1997）、《全球化的阴影》（2006）、《授人以鱼...(展开全部)

This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic...(展开全部)

This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic...(展开全部)

Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global South and the vast subterranean technological networks of the global North. In this book, Matthew Gandy considers the cultural and material significance of water through the experiences of six cities: Paris, Berlin...(展开全部)

Postmodernity has been dubbed the great transformation in society and culture, yet in this book Keith Tester casts a cautious eye on such grandiose claims. Drawing on a range of themes and stories from European sociology and literature, Tester shows how many of the great statements about postmodernityare misleading. Tester argues that "postmodernity" is not so much the harbinge...(展开全部)

Postmodernity has been dubbed the great transformation in society and culture, yet in this book Keith Tester casts a cautious eye on such grandiose claims. Drawing on a range of themes and stories from European sociology and literature, Tester shows how many of the great statements about postmodernityare misleading. Tester argues that "postmodernity" is not so much the harbinge...(展开全部)

One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to engineering and cultural evolution. Dennett's analyses of the objections to evolutionary theory are unsurpassed. Extremely lucid, wonderfully written, and scientifically and philo...(展开全部)

This work assesses Darwin's theory of evolution and looks at why it arises such heated debate among scientists, philosophers and sociologists. The book aims to show that Darwinism does not devalue the miracles of life.

One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to engineering and cultural evolution. Dennett's analyses of the objections to evolutionary theory are unsurpassed. Extremely lucid, wonderfully written, and scientifically and philo...(展开全部)