Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The author examines the phenomenon of time and asks such fascinating questions as how time impinges on people, to what extent our awareness of time is culturally conditioned, how societies deal with temporal problems and whether time...(展开全部)

Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The author examines the phenomenon of time and asks such fascinating questions as how time impinges on people, to what extent our awareness of time is culturally conditioned, how societies deal with temporal problems and whether time...(展开全部)

""Time Maps" extends beyond all of the old cliches about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that provides new insights into some of the old questions about philosophy of history, historical narrative, and what is called straigh...(展开全部)

"Time Maps extends beyond all of the old clichés about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that provides new insights into some of the old questions about philosophy of history, historical narrative, and what is called straight ...(展开全部)

""Time Maps" extends beyond all of the old cliches about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that provides new insights into some of the old questions about philosophy of history, historical narrative, and what is called straigh...(展开全部)

"Time Maps extends beyond all of the old clichés about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that provides new insights into some of the old questions about philosophy of history, historical narrative, and what is called straight ...(展开全部)

An innovative interdisciplinary work that sheds new light on Manchu rule. The mechanisms by which the Manchu rulers of Qing dynasty China maintained their hegemony over a vast empire have long fascinated scholars, with New Qing History models challenging older Sinicization models in recent years. Images of War adds a new dimension to these debates, from an unlikely source: art ...(展开全部)

An innovative interdisciplinary work that sheds new light on Manchu rule. The mechanisms by which the Manchu rulers of Qing dynasty China maintained their hegemony over a vast empire have long fascinated scholars, with New Qing History models challenging older Sinicization models in recent years. Images of War adds a new dimension to these debates, from an unlikely source: art ...(展开全部)

卡罗尔•恩贝尔（Carol R. Ember）与梅尔文•恩贝尔（Melvin Ember）结婚之后，两人一起对婚姻、家庭、继嗣群的差异及战争与和平进行了跨文化的研究。所有这些跨文化的研究都基于全世界社会案例的资料检验已有的理论。从1970年到1996年，她在纽约城市大学亨特学院执教，担任跨文化研究中心主任并负责管理美国国家科学基金会资助的比较人类学研究暑期学院。自1996年起，她在耶鲁大学非盈利机构人类关系区域档案中心任职，起初是执行理事，接着任代理总裁，现在则全面主持工作。 梅尔文•恩贝尔在哥伦比亚大学完成专业学习，接着到耶鲁大学攻读博士学位。梅尔文•恩贝尔在美属萨摩亚人中间开展田野调查完成学位论文，并对三个村庄进行比较，研究商业化对政治生活的影响。在国家精神卫生研究院进行四年的研究之后，梅尔文•恩贝尔先后到安提亚克学院和纽约城市大学亨特学院任教。...(展开全部)

In this groundbreaking book, renowned art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various media such as painting, sculpture, or photography, he links pictures to our mental images and therefore our bodies. The body is understood as a "living medium" that...(展开全部)