"Fat". In contemporary society the word never fails to elicit powerful emotions, especially as it relates to bodily health and appearance. But fat is a noun as well as an adjective and has a cultural life outside of its relationship with the human body. By focusing on the complex physical and experiential dimensions of this problematic substance, Fat: Culture and Materiality br...(展开全部)

As multi-functional as they are artistically important, folding and standing screens assume a variety of roles unique to the cultures of East Asia. Frequently used in dwellings, temples, and tombs, East Asian screens have a rich history from ancient times up to the modern period, and yet they rarely have been examined as an art form in themselves. This volume of essays makes th...(展开全部)

Postmodern theorist Michel Foucault is best known for his work on "power/ knowledge," and on the regulation of sexuality in modern society. Yet throughout his life, Foucault was continually concerned with Christianity, other spiritual movements and religious traditions, and the death of God, and these themes and materials scattered are throughout his many writings. "Religion an...(展开全部)

Synopsis Following his profoundly influential study, "Orientalism", Edward Said now examines western culture. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War, "Culture and Imperialism" is a broad, fierce and wonderfully readable account of the roots of imperialism in European culture.

What is the place of materiality - the expression or condition of a physical substance - in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in technology? In Surface, cultural critic and theorist Giuliana Bruno deftly explores these questions, seeking to understand materiality in the contemporary world. Arguing that material...(展开全部)

杜朴（Robert L. Thorp），早期中国艺术领域的权威学者，华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校艺术史和考古系荣休教授，著述丰硕。杜朴博士除了在远东广泛游历和参加田野考察工作外，还合作策划了几个重要的展览，并受邀在多个以中国艺术收藏著称的美国博物馆做讲座。 文以诚 （Richard Ellis Vinograd），著名的中国画研究专家，1995 年起任斯坦福大学艺术和艺术史系主任。他是晚期中国（宋代至今）艺术领域备受尊崇的学者，著有《自我的界限：1600-1900 的中国肖像画》，在许多重要刊物上发表过文章和书评。文以诚博士经常受邀以演讲者、评审或研讨者的身份出席有关中国艺术与文化的会议和论坛。

杜朴（Robert L. Thorp），早期中国艺术领域的权威学者，华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校艺术史和考古系荣休教授，著述丰硕。杜朴博士除了在远东广泛游历和参加田野考察工作外，还合作策划了几个重要的展览，并受邀在多个以中国艺术收藏著称的美国博物馆做讲座。 文以诚 （Richard Ellis Vinograd），著名的中国画研究专家，1995 年起任斯坦福大学艺术和艺术史系主任。他是晚期中国（宋代至今）艺术领域备受尊崇的学者，著有《自我的界限：1600-1900 的中国肖像画》，在许多重要刊物上发表过文章和书评。文以诚博士经常受邀以演讲者、评审或研讨者的身份出席有关中国艺术与文化的会议和论坛。

"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those ...(展开全部)