Translated by Ephraim Fischoff With a new Foreword by Ann Swidler

Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and "performing ethnography" to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings, "Body, Brain, and Culture" links cerebral neurology and anthropology studies in a fascinating interface.

Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications, he analyses how numbers operate within different contexts. The a...(展开全部)

Written with a rare combination of analysis and speculation, this comprehensive study of Javanese religion is one of the few books on the religion of a non-Western people which emphasizes variation and conflict in belief as well as similarity and harmony. The reader becomes aware of the intricacy and depth of Javanese spiritual life and the problems of political and social inte...(展开全部)

英国圣母玛利亚大学教授柏拉米称这本书"卓尔不群"，"为所有对宗教人类学感兴趣的读者提供了一个精湛的文本"。作为导论式的课本，本书将宗教人类学内部观念与争论的起源和演进，同这些论题的最新发展结合起来加以考察，从而引导人们深入探索这个领域。通过这本书，我们将会发现人类学不应仅仅被看作阅读和田野调查，更应被看作人认识自身、认识世界的一种方式。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。