In this influential work, first published in English in 1963, Durkheim and Mauss claim that the individual mind is capable of classification and they seek the origin of the 'classificatory function' in society. On the basis of an intensive examination of forms and principles of symbolic classification reported from the Australian aborigines, the Zuni and traditional China, they...(展开全部)

In this influential work, first published in English in 1963, Durkheim and Mauss claim that the individual mind is capable of classification and they seek the origin of the 'classificatory function' in society. On the basis of an intensive examination of forms and principles of symbolic classification reported from the Australian aborigines, the Zuni and traditional China, they...(展开全部)

爱德华・泰勒（Edward Tylor，1832-1917），英国人类学家，被人类学界尊称为“人类学之父”，“在人类学中是第一个伟大的名字”，是最具影响的进化派和人类学派的经典作家。代表作有《原始文化》、《人类学――人及其文化研究》等。

"Originally published under the title: Social bandits and primitive rebels."

The first edition, published in 1973, has become a classic reference in the field. Now with the second edition, readers will find information on key new topics such as neural networks and statistical pattern recognition, the theory of machine learning, and the theory of invariances. Also included are worked examples, comparisons between different methods, extensive graphics, ex...(展开全部)

《原始艺术》最初是企鹅图书“鹈鹕丛书”的约稿，小开本，售价低廉，面向大众读者，意在普及学术。亚当以深入浅出的方式，对世界艺术做出了概览；同时，书中不乏其具有学术高度的洞见。诸如针对当时流行的一些原始艺术观，亚当做了辨析；用较大篇幅阐述了原始艺术与宗教之间的关联；在跨文化背景下探讨了非西方艺术的走向等。其中不少观点，甚至对今天的民族艺术研究、非物质文化遗产保护等都有重要的借鉴意义。

A classic work in the anthropology of law, this book offered one of the first ambitiously conceived analyses of the fundamental rights and duties that are treated as law among non-literate peoples (labelled "primitive" at the time of the original publication). The heart of the book is a description and analysis of the law of five societies: the Eskimo; the Ifugao of northern Lu...(展开全部)

For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, Andrei A. Znamenski uncovers an exciting story t...(展开全部)

How are relationships established between the world's languages? This is one of the most topical and most controversial questions in contemporary linguistics. The central aims of this 2008 book are to answer this question, to cut through the controversies, and to contribute to research in distant genetic relationships. In doing this the authors aim to: (1) show how the methods ...(展开全部)