Tourism-one of the world's largest industries-has long been appreciated for its economic benefits, but in this volume tourism receives a unique systematic scrutiny as a medium for cultural exchange. Modern developments in technology and industry, together with masterful advertising, have created temporarily leisured people with the desire and the means to travel. They often in ...(展开全部)

This book is designed to give an overview and critical assessment of the developing field of tourism study in anthropology. It aims to engage the reader with questions that anthropologists have raised about tourist and the ways that they have dealt with them in their research. Basic research from three theoretical perspectives is reviewed and assessed: tourist as a form of deve...(展开全部)

厄夫‧錢伯斯（Erve Chambers） 美國馬里蘭大學人類學系退休教授，研究興趣包括觀光、城市與區域發展、知識移轉與利用、民族誌寫作。他曾經在泰國、墨西哥與美國各地做過田野調查，目前的研究與理論關懷主要集中在永續觀光發展。他也對於人類學知識的影響還有人類學知識受到當代文化論述的影響保持濃烈的興趣，並且積極參與馬里蘭大學人類學系的「資源管理與文化過程」（Resource Management and Cultural Process）追蹤研究。除了本書之外，他還寫過《觀光與文化：應用觀點》（Tourism and Culture: An Applied Perspective 1997），跟賽沙（Setha M. Low）合寫《房屋、文化與設計》（Housing, Culture and Design 1989），以及《應用人類學：實踐手冊》（Ap...(展开全部)

厄夫‧錢伯斯（Erve Chambers） 美國馬里蘭大學人類學系退休教授，研究興趣包括觀光、城市與區域發展、知識移轉與利用、民族誌寫作。他曾經在泰國、墨西哥與美國各地做過田野調查，目前的研究與理論關懷主要集中在永續觀光發展。他也對於人類學知識的影響還有人類學知識受到當代文化論述的影響保持濃烈的興趣，並且積極參與馬里蘭大學人類學系的「資源管理與文化過程」（Resource Management and Cultural Process）追蹤研究。除了本書之外，他還寫過《觀光與文化：應用觀點》（Tourism and Culture: An Applied Perspective 1997），跟賽沙（Setha M. Low）合寫《房屋、文化與設計》（Housing, Culture and Design 1989），以及《應用人類學：實踐手冊》（Ap...(展开全部)

伊莉莎白．貝克 Elizabeth Becker 貝克的記者生涯始於一九七二年擔任《華盛頓郵報》駐柬埔寨戰地特派員，並曾擔任《紐約時報》特派員，在歐洲、亞洲以及南美洲進行採訪。貝克曾榮獲羅伯∙甘迺迪圖書獎(Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize)、海外記者俱樂部獎( Overseas Press Club Award )，並兩度獲得杜邦─哥倫比亞大學獎 (DuPont-Columbia Award)，表彰其新聞報導之專業。 譯者簡介 吳緯疆 世新大學傳播研究所碩士，自由譯者。譯有《自戀時代》、《設計解剖全書》、《時尚的力量》、《地球與人》等書。

This Handbook features 20 original essays by leading figures in the discipline, which examine traditional areas of research as well as cutting-edge areas of inquiry. Divided into three parts – Food, Self and Other; Food Security, Nutrition and Food Safety; Food as Craft, Industry and Ethics – the book covers topics such as identity, commensality, locality, migration, ethical co...(展开全部)

This Handbook features 20 original essays by leading figures in the discipline, which examine traditional areas of research as well as cutting-edge areas of inquiry. Divided into three parts – Food, Self and Other; Food Security, Nutrition and Food Safety; Food as Craft, Industry and Ethics – the book covers topics such as identity, commensality, locality, migration, ethical co...(展开全部)

If Kant had never made the "critical turn" of 1773, would he be worth more than a paragraph in the history of philosophy? Most scholars think not. But in this pioneering book, John H. Zammito challenges that view by revealing a precritical Kant who was immensely more influential than the one philosophers think they know. Zammito also reveals Kant's former student and latter-day...(展开全部)

The Art of Anthropology collects together the most influential of Gell's writings, which span the past two decades, with a new introductory chapter written by Gell. The essays vividly demonstrate Gell's theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of current anthropological enquiry. A central theme of the essays is Gel's highly origi...(展开全部)

At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological research-one where the four fields of anthropology are synthesized to address the multidimensionality of the effects to a community's social structures and relationship to the environment. Using a variety of natural and technological disast...(展开全部)