For a period of nearly eight hundred years, Perso-Islamic kingship was the source for the dominant social and cultural paradigms organising Indian political life. In the medieval world of South Asia, Persian kingship took the form of a hybridized and adaptive political expression. The Persian king embodied the values of justice, military heroics, and honor, ideals valorized his...(展开全部)

For a period of nearly eight hundred years, Perso-Islamic kingship was the source for the dominant social and cultural paradigms organising Indian political life. In the medieval world of South Asia, Persian kingship took the form of a hybridized and adaptive political expression. The Persian king embodied the values of justice, military heroics, and honor, ideals valorized his...(展开全部)

The great national epic of Persia—the most complete English-language edition Wherever Persian influence has spread, the stories of the Shahnameh become deeply embedded in the culture, as their appearance in such novels as The Kite Runner amply attests. Among the greatest works of world literature, this prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi in the late tenth cen...(展开全部)

Dick Davis, "our pre-eminent translator from the Persian" (Washington Post) has revised and expanded his highly-praised translation of Ferdowsi's masterpiece, including more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis's elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shanameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly-marked explanati...(展开全部)

The great national epic of Persia—the most complete English-language edition Wherever Persian influence has spread, the stories of the Shahnameh become deeply embedded in the culture, as their appearance in such novels as The Kite Runner amply attests. Among the greatest works of world literature, this prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi in the late tenth cen...(展开全部)

Dick Davis, "our pre-eminent translator from the Persian" (Washington Post) has revised and expanded his highly-praised translation of Ferdowsi's masterpiece, including more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis's elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shanameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly-marked explanati...(展开全部)

马文·哈里斯早年就读于哥伦比亚大学，从师于人类学家查里斯·韦格利，对主张多实地调查、少闭门造车的研究方法极感兴趣。其导师韦格利鼓励他继续留在哥伦比亚大学研究生院学习，并邀他去南美洲进行了一次实地考察。哈里斯发表了调查巴西农村生活状况的论文，并于1953年回哥伦比亚大学执教。现在他为哥伦比亚大学专职教授，在1963年至1966年期间曾任系主任。他对不同人种和种族之间文化交叉的问题和殖民主义的问题很有兴趣，为此曾去莫桑比克进行了实地调查，他在这次调查中形成了自己文化唯物主义的研究方法，此后，他又去厄瓜多尔，最近又去了印度。在发表了4部早期著作之后，他写了一部有影响的著作《人类学的兴起：文化理论史》，他的另一部受欢迎的大学教科书是《文化、人、自然：人类学简介》。哈里斯过去一直在写专业性和教学性的著作，现在打算为更广泛的一般读者写作。他就美洲人的礼仪、习俗和...(展开全部)

马文·哈里斯早年就读于哥伦比亚大学，从师于人类学家查里斯·韦格利，对主张多实地调查、少闭门造车的研究方法极感兴趣。其导师韦格利鼓励他继续留在哥伦比亚大学研究生院学习，并邀他去南美洲进行了一次实地考察。哈里斯发表了调查巴西农村生活状况的论文，并于1953年回哥伦比亚大学执教。现在他为哥伦比亚大学专职教授，在1963年至1966年期间曾任系主任。他对不同人种和种族之间文化交叉的问题和殖民主义的问题很有兴趣，为此曾去莫桑比克进行了实地调查，他在这次调查中形成了自己文化唯物主义的研究方法，此后，他又去厄瓜多尔，最近又去了印度。在发表了4部早期著作之后，他写了一部有影响的著作《人类学的兴起：文化理论史》，他的另一部受欢迎的大学教科书是《文化、人、自然：人类学简介》。哈里斯过去一直在写专业性和教学性的著作，现在打算为更广泛的一般读者写作。他就美洲人的礼仪、习俗和...(展开全部)

马文·哈里斯早年就读于哥伦比亚大学，从师于人类学家查里斯·韦格利，对主张多实地调查、少闭门造车的研究方法极感兴趣。其导师韦格利鼓励他继续留在哥伦比亚大学研究生院学习，并邀他去南美洲进行了一次实地考察。哈里斯发表了调查巴西农村生活状况的论文，并于1953年回哥伦比亚大学执教。现在他为哥伦比亚大学专职教授，在1963年至1966年期间曾任系主任。他对不同人种和种族之间文化交叉的问题和殖民主义的问题很有兴趣，为此曾去莫桑比克进行了实地调查，他在这次调查中形成了自己文化唯物主义的研究方法，此后，他又去厄瓜多尔，最近又去了印度。在发表了4部早期著作之后，他写了一部有影响的著作《人类学的兴起：文化理论史》，他的另一部受欢迎的大学教科书是《文化、人、自然：人类学简介》。哈里斯过去一直在写专业性和教学性的著作，现在打算为更广泛的一般读者写作。他就美洲人的礼仪、习俗和...(展开全部)

In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted for the evolution of biological forms: to show ...(展开全部)