A Brief Empirical Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Human Culture presents the highlights of the popular Cultural Anthropology , 13th edition by the same author team. It provides students with an empirical introduction to cultural anthropology, and helps them understand humans in all their variety - and why such variety exists. This new 2nd edition pla...(展开全部)

This volume illustrates Melford Spiro's explorations of key relationship among culture, society, and human nature. He addresses such fundamental issues as the limitations of cultural relativism, the problem of explanation in the social sciences, and the importance of a comparative approach to the study of social and cultural systems. Spiro believes that deep motivational and co...(展开全部)

卡罗尔•恩贝尔（Carol R. Ember）与梅尔文•恩贝尔（Melvin Ember）结婚之后，两人一起对婚姻、家庭、继嗣群的差异及战争与和平进行了跨文化的研究。所有这些跨文化的研究都基于全世界社会案例的资料检验已有的理论。从1970年到1996年，她在纽约城市大学亨特学院执教，担任跨文化研究中心主任并负责管理美国国家科学基金会资助的比较人类学研究暑期学院。自1996年起，她在耶鲁大学非盈利机构人类关系区域档案中心任职，起初是执行理事，接着任代理总裁，现在则全面主持工作。 梅尔文•恩贝尔在哥伦比亚大学完成专业学习，接着到耶鲁大学攻读博士学位。梅尔文•恩贝尔在美属萨摩亚人中间开展田野调查完成学位论文，并对三个村庄进行比较，研究商业化对政治生活的影响。在国家精神卫生研究院进行四年的研究之后，梅尔文•恩贝尔先后到安提亚克学院和纽约城市大学亨特学院任教。...(展开全部)

An important look at why some countries and ethnic groups are better off than others, and the role that cultural values play in the shaping of nations' and peoples' political, economic and social performance Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the po...(展开全部)

An important look at why some countries and ethnic groups are better off than others, and the role that cultural values play in the shaping of nations' and peoples' political, economic and social performance Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the po...(展开全部)

卡罗尔•恩贝尔（Carol R. Ember）与梅尔文•恩贝尔（Melvin Ember）结婚之后，两人一起对婚姻、家庭、继嗣群的差异及战争与和平进行了跨文化的研究。所有这些跨文化的研究都基于全世界社会案例的资料检验已有的理论。从1970年到1996年，她在纽约城市大学亨特学院执教，担任跨文化研究中心主任并负责管理美国国家科学基金会资助的比较人类学研究暑期学院。自1996年起，她在耶鲁大学非盈利机构人类关系区域档案中心任职，起初是执行理事，接着任代理总裁，现在则全面主持工作。 梅尔文•恩贝尔在哥伦比亚大学完成专业学习，接着到耶鲁大学攻读博士学位。梅尔文•恩贝尔在美属萨摩亚人中间开展田野调查完成学位论文，并对三个村庄进行比较，研究商业化对政治生活的影响。在国家精神卫生研究院进行四年的研究之后，梅尔文•恩贝尔先后到安提亚克学院和纽约城市大学亨特学院任教。...(展开全部)

Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth using an incredible variety of tools and subsistence techniques. Our societies are larger, more complex, and more cooperative than any other mammal's. In th...(展开全部)

Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth using an incredible variety of tools and subsistence techniques. Our societies are larger, more complex, and more cooperative than any other mammal’s. In th...(展开全部)

凯文·拉兰德 英国爱丁堡皇家学会院士，英国圣安德鲁斯大学行为与进化生物学教授、生物多样性中心成员、社会学习和认知进化中心成员、行为学和神经科学研究所成员，苏格兰灵长目动物研究组成员。针对动物行为和进化、社会学习、文化进化和生态位构建，已发表200多篇学术论文，并出版了11部著作。《未完成的进化》入围2017年英国心理学会图书奖决选名单。