马歇尔·萨林斯：现任芝加哥大学教授。萨林斯在芝加哥长大就读于密歇根大学, 他的毕业后留在那里工作，同时也在哥伦比亚大学讲课，教授的是人类学。 萨林斯首先意识到自己是一位波利尼西亚的民族志学者和历史学家。 他的关于波利尼西亚与欧洲接触的历史理论引发了主要的人类学的争论， 并且刊登在若干国家性的新闻杂志上。 萨林斯也与他一起工作的夏威夷人民而著名， 他为了本民族的人民和文化继续工作， 他在美国、欧洲和亚洲给许多学生和教师作过演讲。 他的研究领域使他得以游历了充满异国情调的土耳其、斐济、和新几内亚， 1976年他成为了美国艺术和科学学院的院士。

马歇尔·萨林斯：现任芝加哥大学教授。萨林斯在芝加哥长大就读于密歇根大学, 他的毕业后留在那里工作，同时也在哥伦比亚大学讲课，教授的是人类学。 萨林斯首先意识到自己是一位波利尼西亚的民族志学者和历史学家。 他的关于波利尼西亚与欧洲接触的历史理论引发了主要的人类学的争论， 并且刊登在若干国家性的新闻杂志上。 萨林斯也与他一起工作的夏威夷人民而著名， 他为了本民族的人民和文化继续工作， 他在美国、欧洲和亚洲给许多学生和教师作过演讲。 他的研究领域使他得以游历了充满异国情调的土耳其、斐济、和新几内亚， 1976年他成为了美国艺术和科学学院的院士。

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful c...(展开全部)

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful c...(展开全部)

A rare and beautifully illustrated journey to fifty faraway worlds. There are still places on earth that are unknown. Visually stunning and uniquely designed, this wondrous book captures fifty islands that are far away in every sense-from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from holiday brochures. Author Judith Schalansky used historic events and scientific repor...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

“Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby’s place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family in ...(展开全部)

“Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby’s place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family in ...(展开全部)

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of wr...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)