Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details...(展开全部)

Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details...(展开全部)

Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details...(展开全部)

Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details...(展开全部)

How did the popularity of underwear in the twelfth century lead to the invention of the printing press? How did the waterwheel evolve into the computer? How did the arrival of the cannon lead eventually to the development of movies? In this highly acclaimed and bestselling book, James Burke brilliantly examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the...(展开全部)

How did the popularity of underwear in the twelfth century lead to the invention of the printing press? How did the waterwheel evolve into the computer? How did the arrival of the cannon lead eventually to the development of movies? In this highly acclaimed and bestselling book, James Burke brilliantly examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the...(展开全部)

布鲁诺·麦克唐纳（Bruno MacDonald）是一位音乐专家，曾参与编撰《有生之年非听不可的1001张唱片》和《有生之年非听不可的1001首歌》。他还编辑了《乐队伙伴、歌迷、朋友和劲敌眼中的平克·弗洛伊德》（Pink Floyd: Through the Eyes of the Band, Its Fans, Friends and Foes）一书，并与罗伯特·迪默里合著《摇滚天堂》（Rock & Roll Heaven）。他还为《摇滚指南》（The Rough Guide to Rock）、《吉尼斯热门单曲》（Guinness Hit Singles）、《摇滚百科》（Rockpedia）等书籍和《电台时代》（Radio Times）、《Q》、《唱片收藏家》（Record Collector）等各大音乐杂志供稿。

This book is a very well-accepted introduction to the subject. In it, the author identifies the significant aspects of the theory and explores them with a limited amount of machinery from mathematical analysis. Now, in this fourth edition, the book has again been updated with an additional chapter on Lewy's example of a linear equation without solutions.