In Queer Activism in India, Naisargi Dave examines the formation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with activist organizations in Delhi, a body of letters written by lesbian women, and research with lesbian communities and queer activist groups across the country, Dave studies the everyday practices that...(展开全部)

This book, the first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 B.C. through the nineteenth century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known Chinese medical literature. The inclusion in addition of writings possessing ethical implications makes possible cultural comparisons with the co...(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)

Paz looks at the people and landscapes of India, based on his years with the Mexican embassy, offering a collection of essays on Indian history, culture, art, politics, language, and philosophy.

In 1951 Octavio Paz travelled to India to serve as an attaché in the Mexican Embassy. Eleven years later he returned as Mexico's ambassador. In Light of India is Paz's celebration of that country and his most personal work of prose to date. As in all of his essays, he brings poetic insight and voluminous knowledge to bear on the subject, and the result is a series of fascinatin...(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)

【作者简介】 【美】奎迈• 安东尼•阿皮亚是美国国家人文奖、普林斯顿大学人文科学特殊成就奖以及美国对外关系委员会亚瑟•罗斯图书奖、布兰迪斯大学新近设立的约瑟夫•B.与托比•吉特勒奖等重要学术奖项的获得者，他是美国笔会主席，又是劳伦斯•S.洛克菲勒大学的哲学教授和普林斯顿大学人类价值中心的哲学教授。他的著述包括：《世界主义》、《荣誉法则》、《在父亲的房子里：文化哲学里的非洲》、《神思：当代哲学导论》、《身份认同之伦理学》等。 【译者简介】 苗华建，供职于北京外国语大学日本学研究中心，迄今翻译作品十余部，代表性作品有《荣誉法则》、《信息崇拜》、《天空中的圆周率》、《淑女与熊猫》等。

This landmark work challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives the ancient philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, which dates back to the Cynics of the 4th century, as a means of understanding the complex world of today. Arguing that we concentrate too much on what makes us different rather than recognising our common h...(展开全部)

“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell Kwame Anthony Appiah’s landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine , challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations . Reviving the ancient philosophy of “cosmopolitanism,” a school of ...(展开全部)