赫尔曼•鲍辛格（Hermann Bausinger，1926— ），德国著名的民俗学家和日耳曼语言文学研究家，1960—1992年任图宾根大学经验文化学研究所所长，是第二次世界大战以后民俗学从古文化研究转向当代日常生活研究的首倡者和重要推动者。著有《技术世界中的民间文化》、《“民间诗歌”的形式》、《民俗学：从古代研究到文化分析》等书。其中最具开创性的学术著作《技术世界中的民间文化》在国际学术界产生了广泛而持久的影响，已被译成英语、法语、意大利语、日语和韩语等多种文字。鲍辛格对民俗学的传统领域即民间叙事和方言也有深入的研究，曾担任《童话全书》的主编。1993年获得马堡大学的“格林兄弟奖”，2009年被授予“巴登－符腾堡州杰出贡献勋章”。

In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's identity at home and abroad. In the American context, the word otaku is best translated as 'geek' - an ardent fan with highly specializ...(展开全部)

Most general histories of technology are Eurocentrist, focusing on a main line of Western technology that stretches from the Greeks is through the computer. In this very different book, Arnold Pacey takes a global view, placing the development of technology squarely in a "world civilization." He portrays the process as a complex dialectic by which inventions borrowed from one c...(展开全部)

Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti’s lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry, Martin Puchner explores how ...(展开全部)

Communication in History's outstanding selection of readings from classic and contemporary sources gives an extensive overview of the most important ideas in the field. Encompassing topics as wide-ranging as the role of printing in the rise of the modern state and the role of the Internet in the Information Age, this anthology reveals how media have been influential bot...(展开全部)

'Once in a while a manuscript stops you in your tracks...What we are offered here is no recovering of old ground but a step change in perspectives on "body matters" that is both innovative and of fundamental importance to anyone working on this sociological terrain...This text is groundbreaking and simply has to be read' - Acta Sociologica 'this is Shilling at his creative be...(展开全部)

'Once in a while a manuscript stops you in your tracks...What we are offered here is no recovering of old ground but a step change in perspectives on "body matters" that is both innovative and of fundamental importance to anyone working on this sociological terrain...This text is groundbreaking and simply has to be read' - Acta Sociologica 'this is Shilling at his creative be...(展开全部)