The main purpose of this book is to offer some incentives for a comparative anthropology of the wider Himalayan region by supplying new ethnographic facts from one of its corners closed to outsiders for half a century. With the exception of two articles that appeared previously in Chinese in modified form and length and a series of historical photographs bridging past and prese...(展开全部)

1928. In the present work, Mr. Montague endeavored to set forth what might be termed the philosophy of vampirism, and however ghastly and macabre they may appear, he felt that here one must not tamely shrink from a careful and detailed consideration of the many cognate passions and congruous circumstances which, there can be no reasonable doubt, have throughout the ages played ...(展开全部)

Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences cons...(展开全部)

This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical and theoretical dimensions are increasingly intertwined. Digital ethnography is central to our understanding of the social world...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world. There’s no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded It is a fact consigned to history along with almost everything else It’s been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves. ...(展开全部)

As Alan Klima writes in Ethnography #9, “there are other possible starting places than the earnest realism of anthropological discourse as a method of critical thought.” In this experimental ethnography of capitalism, ghosts, and numbers in mid- and late-twentieth-century Thailand, Klima uses this provocation to deconstruct naive faith in the “real” and in the material in acade...(展开全部)

As Alan Klima writes in Ethnography #9, “there are other possible starting places than the earnest realism of anthropological discourse as a method of critical thought.” In this experimental ethnography of capitalism, ghosts, and numbers in mid- and late-twentieth-century Thailand, Klima uses this provocation to deconstruct naive faith in the “real” and in the material in acade...(展开全部)

The nightmare continues...Vampire Rites trilogy comprising: Vampire Mountain, Trials of Death and The Vampire Prince. Join Darren Shan's descent into the darkness. VAMPIRE MOUNTAIN Darren Shan and Mr Crepsley embark on a dangerous trek to the very heart of the vampire world. But will a meeting with the Vampire Princes restore Darren's human side, or turn him further towards th...(展开全部)

Digital ethnography can be understood as a method for representing real-life cultures through storytelling in digital media. Enabling audiences to go beyond absorbing facts, computer-based storytelling allows for immersion in the experience of another culture. A guide for anyone in the social sciences who seeks to enrich ethnographic techniques, Digital Ethnography offers a gro...(展开全部)

-作者简介- 莎拉•平克（Sarah Pink），澳大利亚墨尔本皇家理工大学设计与媒体民族志教授，拉夫堡大学社会学教授，澳大利亚格里菲斯大学公共文化与思想中心荣誉教授。她的数字视觉方法论研究享誉全球，其作品有《视觉方法论进展》（Advances in Visual Methodology，编著，2012）、《学做感官民族志》（Doing Sensory Ethnography，2009）、《视觉干预》（Visual Interventions，编著，2007）和《视觉人类学的未来》（The Future of Visual Anthropology，2006）。 -译者简介- 邝明艳（1982— ），女，北京师范大学文学博士，现任教于西南大学文学院。研究方向为欧美文学与比较文学。 唐晓莉（1981— ），女，陆军军医大学副教授，西南大学博士研究生。研...(展开全部)