How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? The contributors explore this question from an anthropological angle, assessing the connections between place, space, identity, nationalism, history and memory in a variety of different settings around the world. Taking historical change and memory as key themes, they offer a broad study...(展开全部)

One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year In Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist ...(展开全部)

'As a introduction to the study of ethnicity, [this] book will do excellently.' Ethnologia Scandinavica Ethnicity and nationalism are pervasive features of the contemporary world, but how far is ethnicity a result of cultural differences, and how much is it in fact dependent on the practical use of, and belief in, such differences? In this book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen demonstra...(展开全部)

'As a introduction to the study of ethnicity, [this] book will do excellently.' Ethnologia Scandinavica Ethnicity and nationalism are pervasive features of the contemporary world, but how far is ethnicity a result of cultural differences, and how much is it in fact dependent on the practical use of, and belief in, such differences? In this book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen demonstra...(展开全部)

In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, History and Memory reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe.

"Historiography has its fashions, and this is a clear and persuasive portrayal of a present trend away from the fraternization of history with philosophy, theology, literature, and the history of the plastic arts, toward a flirtation with politics and the social sciences....A More... fine study."

In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, History and Memory reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe.

"Historiography has its fashions, and this is a clear and persuasive portrayal of a present trend away from the fraternization of history with philosophy, theology, literature, and the history of the plastic arts, toward a flirtation with politics and the social sciences....A More... fine study."

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood has been home to a multicultural mosaic of immigrant communities: Jewish, Portuguese, Chinese, South Asian, Caribbean, and many others. Despite repeated transformations, the neighbourhood has never lost its vibrant, close-knit character. In Kensington Market, urban planner and public histori...(展开全部)

作者 | 张光直（Kwang-chih Chang，1931—2001） 当代著名人类学家、考古学家。毕生致力于中国史前考古。著有《古代中国考古学》《商文明》《中国青铜时代》等多部重要作品。他是沟通中西方考古学的“架桥人”，主张将中国考古学置于世界文化舞台。 作者 | 薛爱华（Edward Hetzel Schafer，1913—1991） 美国历史学家、汉学家，任教于加州大学伯克利分校，曾任美国东方学会会长，以唐史研究而著称。著有《撒马尔罕的金桃：唐代舶来品研究》《朱雀：唐代的南方意象》《珠崖：12世纪之前的海南岛》《神女：唐代文学中的龙女与雨女》等作品。 作者 | 牟复礼（Frederick W. Mote，1922—2005） 美国汉学家、中国史学者，普林斯顿大学东亚系的奠基人。曾主持编写《剑桥中国史·明代史》，将萧公权名著《中国政治思想史》译...(展开全部)