This volume examines an often taken for granted concept—that of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life? Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs to be deciphered, the anthropologists and philosophers...(展开全部)

The new edition of Kottak's best selling text continues to offer a holistic introduction to anthropology that approaches the course from a four-field perspective. To emphasize anthropology's integrated and comparative nature, "Bringing It All Together" essays show how anthropology's sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a common topic. Another distinctive f...(展开全部)

The new edition of Kottak's best selling text continues to offer a holistic introduction to anthropology that approaches the course from a four-field perspective. To emphasize anthropology's integrated and comparative nature, "Bringing It All Together" essays show how anthropology's sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a common topic. Another distinctive f...(展开全部)

"The Living House" was the first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of the house within the social and symbolic worlds of Southeast Asian peoples. A pioneering title that has become a classic, this exemplary text draws on many sources of information, from architects and anthropologists, to the author's own firsthand research. As it probes into the centrally signific...(展开全部)

The very form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globalization. Featuring nine of the leading scholars in the field, this innovative exploration of these transformations develops an ethnographic methodology and theoretical apparatus to assess perceptions of power in three regions where state reform and violence have been particularly dram...(展开全部)

The very form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globalization. Featuring nine of the leading scholars in the field, this innovative exploration of these transformations develops an ethnographic methodology and theoretical apparatus to assess perceptions of power in three regions where state reform and violence have been particularly dram...(展开全部)

Representing Reality is the first book to offer a conceptual overview of documentary filmmaking practice. It addresses numerous social issues and how they are presented to the viewer by means of style, rhetoric, and narrative technique. The volume poses questions about the relationship of the documentary tradition to power, the body, authority, knowledge, and our experience of ...(展开全部)

A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field. Updated in its second edition, this volume examines numerous aspects of religion in a diversity of cultures and expands upon the idea of what we mean by ‘religion', linking it to some of the broader questions of culture and politics. * Collect...(展开全部)

喇嘛尊者于一九二五年出生在印度喜马拉雅山一个婆罗门书香世家.三岁时即获喜马拉雅山一位伟大圣者的启蒙.年少之时常云游于喜马拉雅山丛山之间,参访了一百二十余位印度大师,高人和隐士. 他是世界著名的喜马拉雅山瑜珈科学与哲学院(Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy)的创办人,校长和灵性上师,同时也是美国托普卡,肯萨斯等地明宁哲基金会的顾问,从事"内在心灵世界的自动控制"研究计划.

喇嘛尊者于一九二五年出生在印度喜马拉雅山一个婆罗门书香世家.三岁时即获喜马拉雅山一位伟大圣者的启蒙.年少之时常云游于喜马拉雅山丛山之间,参访了一百二十余位印度大师,高人和隐士. 他是世界著名的喜马拉雅山瑜珈科学与哲学院(Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy)的创办人,校长和灵性上师,同时也是美国托普卡,肯萨斯等地明宁哲基金会的顾问,从事"内在心灵世界的自动控制"研究计划.