Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China is a remarkable collection of work by both Yi and foreign scholars describing t...(展开全部)

美国当代著名的作家、翻译家、汉学家。1970进入哥伦比亚大学攻读人类学博士，机缘巧合之下学习中文，从此爱上中国文化。1972年，比尔赴台湾一所寺庙修行，在那里过起暮鼓晨钟的隐居生活；1991年，他又辗转至香港某广播电台工作，并开始长期在中国大陆旅行，撰写了大量介绍中国风土人情的书籍和游记，同时翻译多部佛学经典和诗集，在欧美各国掀起了一股学习中国传统文化的热潮。 比尔关于中国隐者的作品《空谷幽兰》出版后，受到读者的热烈欢迎，一版再版，畅销至今。2010年，他又相继推出了追溯中国禅宗文化与历史的《禅的行囊》，以及追寻黄河源头的《黄河之旅》、追溯中华文明史上最辉煌篇章的《丝绸之路》。这些关于中国文化之旅的游记作品同样受到了读者的喜爱，并得到安妮宝贝、安意如、陈坤等人的鼎力推荐。 多年来比尔一直坚持深入中国偏远地区寻访人文遗迹，并用胶卷和文字记录旅途的艰险与...(展开全部)

美国当代著名的作家、翻译家、汉学家。1970进入哥伦比亚大学攻读人类学博士，机缘巧合之下学习中文，从此爱上中国文化。1972年，比尔赴台湾一所寺庙修行，在那里过起暮鼓晨钟的隐居生活；1991年，他又辗转至香港某广播电台工作，并开始长期在中国大陆旅行，撰写了大量介绍中国风土人情的书籍和游记，同时翻译多部佛学经典和诗集，在欧美各国掀起了一股学习中国传统文化的热潮。 比尔关于中国隐者的作品《空谷幽兰》出版后，受到读者的热烈欢迎，一版再版，畅销至今。2010年，他又相继推出了追溯中国禅宗文化与历史的《禅的行囊》，以及追寻黄河源头的《黄河之旅》、追溯中华文明史上最辉煌篇章的《丝绸之路》。这些关于中国文化之旅的游记作品同样受到了读者的喜爱，并得到安妮宝贝、安意如、陈坤等人的鼎力推荐。 多年来比尔一直坚持深入中国偏远地区寻访人文遗迹，并用胶卷和文字记录旅途的艰险与...(展开全部)

"This book is primarily about the peoples of Liangshan and Panzhihua. However, it also has quite a bit to say about ethnic relations in the People's Republic, about ethnology, and about the nature of the Chinese state and its future." - Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan...(展开全部)

"This book is primarily about the peoples of Liangshan and Panzhihua. However, it also has quite a bit to say about ethnic relations in the People's Republic, about ethnology, and about the nature of the Chinese state and its future." - Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan...(展开全部)

Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this path-breaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations among local communities, focusing on the Nuosu (classified as Yi by the Chinese government), Prmi, Naze, and Han. It argues that even within the same regional social system, ethnic identity is formulated, ...(展开全部)

Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this path-breaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations among local communities, focusing on the Nuosu (classified as Yi by the Chinese government), Prmi, Naze, and Han. It argues that even within the same regional social system, ethnic identity is formulated, ...(展开全部)

All people spend a considerable portion of their lives either as dependents or the caretakers of dependents. The fact of human dependency--a function of youth, severe illness, disability, or frail old age--marks our lives, not only as those who are cared for, but as those who engage in the work of caring. In spite of the time, energy and resources-material and emotional, social...(展开全部)

The various perspectives of the field of personality provide the organizing framework for this text. Each perspective is presented in two chapters and is introduced by a prologue that describes the assumptions and themes of the perspective. As the book's title implies, there are many perspectives a person might take on personality, many ways to think about human nature. This b...(展开全部)