A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order. The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were a...(展开全部)

For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a political act, as the division of portions asserted a social order. And the only proper manner of preparing meat for consumption, according to the Greeks, was blood sacrifice. The fundamen...(展开全部)

The Qianlong emperor, who dominated the religious and political life of eighteenth-century China, was in turn dominated by elaborate ritual prescriptions. These texts determined what he wore and ate, how he moved, and above all how he performed the yearly Grand Sacrifices. In Of Body and Brush, Angela Zito offers a stunningly original analysis of the way ritualizing power was p...(展开全部)

司徒安，纽约大学人类学与宗教研究副教授。主要研究领域为人类学、中国文化史及宗教研究。拍摄纪录片《水书》（2012）。合编Body, Subject and Power in China, DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film。她的个人网页为www.angelazito.com。

This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the most important influence on the symbolic universe of ordinary villagers and demonstrate their remarkable capacity for religious and artistic creation. The great festivals described...(展开全部)

普鸣（Michael J. Puett），1986—1994年就读于芝加哥大学，师从马歇尔·萨林斯（Marshall Sahlins），获人类学博士学位，此后在哈佛大学东亚系任教，现为Walter C. Klein中国历史讲席教授，东亚系、人类学系双聘教授。普鸣的著作关注宗教、人类学、历史、哲学的交互领域，注重将中国文明置于世界文明的比较视野中讨论。

Evidence from Shang oracle bones to memorials submitted to Western Han emperors attests to a long-lasting debate in early China over the proper relationship between humans and gods. One pole of the debate saw the human and divine realms as separate and agonistic and encouraged divination to determine the will of the gods and sacrifices to appease and influence them. The opposit...(展开全部)

Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of its most legendary operators. When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn’t know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan—but he was ready: In a letter to his children, not meant to be seen unless the worst happened, he wrote, “I’m not afraid of anything tha...(展开全部)

Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of its most legendary operators. “As a rule, we don’t endorse books or movies or anything regarding the command where I work—and Adam Brown worked—but as the author writes in Fearless , ‘you have to know the rules, so you know when to bend or break them.’ This is one of those times. Read this book. P...(展开全部)