Few modern innovations have spread quite so quickly as the cell phone. This technology has transformed communication throughout the world. Mobile telecommunications have had a dramatic effect in many regions, but perhaps nowhere more than for low-income populations in countries such as Jamaica, where in the last few years many people have moved from no phone to cell phone. This...(展开全部)

Popular TV host Yan Shouyi has it all: A great job, a loyal wife and a beautiful young lover. It all begins to unravel when he accidently leaves his cellphone at home one fateful day. Cell Phone is part comedy, part romance and part social commentary on the changing nature of Chinese society and the impact of technology on relationships. Beginning in 1968 in the protagonist’s c...(展开全部)

Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is the most productive point of departure in conceptualizing its distinctive...(展开全部)

作者：（美国）B.艾伯茨 D.布雷 K.霍普金 A.约翰逊 等 译者：丁小燕 陈跃磊 等 B.艾伯茨（Bruce Alberts）：哈佛大学博士，现任加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）生物化学和生物物理学教授。Science杂志主编，曾任美国科学院院长达12年之久（1993～2005年）。 D.布雷（Dennis Bray）：麻省理工学院博士，现为剑桥大学荣誉退休教授。2006年，他获得微软欧洲科学奖（Microsoft European Science Award）。 K.霍普金（Karen Hopkin）：在艾伯特•爱因斯坦医学院获生物化学博士，现居马萨诸塞州萨默维尔市（Somerville），科普作家。 A.约翰逊（Alexander Johnson）：哈佛大学博士，现任加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）微生物和免疫学教授，生物化学、细胞、遗传和发育生...(展开全部)

An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that th...(展开全部)

In this new book, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in "We Have Never Been Modern, "a work that interrogated the connections between nature and culture. If not modern, he asked, what "have" we been, and what values should we inherit? Over the past twenty-five years, Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his nam...(展开全部)

In this new book, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern, a work that interrogated the connections between nature and culture. If not modern, he asked, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? Over the last twenty-five years, Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is...(展开全部)

Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy - everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Anthropologists, terrified of being accused of romanticism, respond with silence...But what if they didn't? This pamphlet ponders...(展开全部)