This bold reappraisal of science and society explores the different ways that women's reproduction is seen in American culture. "Spectacular. There is no better study of the power of metaphor in modern medicine." —Thomas W. Laqueur, author of Making Sex "One of the greatest strengths of this fascinating book is Martin's careful analysis of how medical language about women's bod...(展开全部)

A bold reappraisal of science and society, The Woman in the Body explores the different ways that women's reproduction is seen in American culture. Contrasting the views of medical science with those of ordinary women from diverse social and economic backgrounds, anthropologist Emily Martin presents unique fieldwork on American culture and uncovers the metaphors of economy and ...(展开全部)

"American Kinship" is the first attempt to deal systematically with kinship as a system of symbols and meanings, and not simply as a network of functionally interrelated familial roles. Schneider argues that the study of a highly differentiated society such as our own may be more revealing of the nature of kinship than the study of anthropologically more familiar, but less diff...(展开全部)

"American Kinship" is the first attempt to deal systematically with kinship as a system of symbols and meanings, and not simply as a network of functionally interrelated familial roles. Schneider argues that the study of a highly differentiated society such as our own may be more revealing of the nature of kinship than the study of anthropologically more familiar, but less diff...(展开全部)

The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into...(展开全部)

The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into...(展开全部)

P. Steven Sangren ( 桑高仁 ) 美國康乃爾大學人類學系與亞洲研究學系教授。 Sangren 畢業於普林斯頓大學，曾在美國海軍任職三年，1980 年取得史丹福大學人類學博士。Sangren 以漢人社會與文化為考察對象，尤其以性別、宗教、 與神話論述為主要研究焦點。出版專 書 有 History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community (1987)； Myth, Gender, and Subjectivity (1997) 和 Chinese Sociologics (2000) 等。 Sangren現階段正從事於專書 Filial Obsessions ( 孝順的情感偏執 ) 的研究寫作計畫，試圖整合馬克思主義與心理分析，而對漢人父系系統與性別意識型態進行完整的分析與批判，新著中將以「慾望...(展开全部)

P. Steven Sangren ( 桑高仁 ) 美國康乃爾大學人類學系與亞洲研究學系教授。 Sangren 畢業於普林斯頓大學，曾在美國海軍任職三年，1980 年取得史丹福大學人類學博士。Sangren 以漢人社會與文化為考察對象，尤其以性別、宗教、 與神話論述為主要研究焦點。出版專 書 有 History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community (1987)； Myth, Gender, and Subjectivity (1997) 和 Chinese Sociologics (2000) 等。 Sangren現階段正從事於專書 Filial Obsessions ( 孝順的情感偏執 ) 的研究寫作計畫，試圖整合馬克思主義與心理分析，而對漢人父系系統與性別意識型態進行完整的分析與批判，新著中將以「慾望...(展开全部)

Based on a variety of classified military records, Lewy provides the first systematic analysis of the course of the Vietnam War, the reasons for the failure of American strategy and tactics, and the causes of the final collapse of South Vietnam.