迈克尔•陶西格，1940年出生于澳大利亚，在伦敦经济学院获得人类学博士学位，后在哥伦比亚大学担任人类学教授，以其富有挑战性的民族志研究和非传统的学术风格而闻名。他在医学人类学领域发表了大量的著作，同时他对卡尔•马克思和瓦尔特•本雅明的评论，尤其是关于商品拜物教思想的评论，最为人称道。代表作有《南美洲的恶魔和商品拜物教》《萨满教、殖民主义与野人》《美女与野兽》等。 王浩娉，本科毕业于北京外国语大学，后留学美国明尼苏达大学，曾任社会科学文献出版社学术编辑。 赵玉燕，女，博士，湖南师范大学社会学系副教授、硕士生导师。

迈克尔•陶西格，1940年出生于澳大利亚，在伦敦经济学院获得人类学博士学位，后在哥伦比亚大学担任人类学教授，以其富有挑战性的民族志研究和非传统的学术风格而闻名。他在医学人类学领域发表了大量的著作，同时他对卡尔•马克思和瓦尔特•本雅明的评论，尤其是关于商品拜物教思想的评论，最为人称道。代表作有《南美洲的恶魔和商品拜物教》《萨满教、殖民主义与野人》《美女与野兽》等。 王浩娉，本科毕业于北京外国语大学，后留学美国明尼苏达大学，曾任社会科学文献出版社学术编辑。 赵玉燕，女，博士，湖南师范大学社会学系副教授、硕士生导师。

Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real. "This extraordinary book . . . will encourage ever more critical and creative explorations."--Fernando Coronil, [I]American Journal of Sociology[/I] "Taussig has brought a formidable collection of data from...(展开全部)

Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real. "This extraordinary book . . . will encourage ever more critical and creative explorations."--Fernando Coronil, [I]American Journal of Sociology[/I] "Taussig has brought a formidable collection of data from...(展开全部)

"The City and Man" consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's "Politics, " Plato's "Republic," and Thucydides' "Peloponnesian Wars." Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of liberating modern political philosophy from the strangehold of ideology. The essays are based on a long and intimate...(展开全部)

"The City and Man" consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's "Politics, " Plato's "Republic," and Thucydides' "Peloponnesian Wars." Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of liberating modern political philosophy from the strangehold of ideology. The essays are based on a long and intimate...(展开全部)

How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (now Haiti) was the world's richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active society of science - one of only three in the world at that time. In this deeply researched and pathbreaking study of the colony, ...(展开全部)

2014 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. "Between Man and Man" is the classic work ...(展开全部)

This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in ...(展开全部)