It was traditionally said that 'clothes maketh the man'. But what codes and meanings are associated with dress in a society that consists of divisions between class, race, gender, family status and religion? Is social and cultural life still fundamentally themed by the clothes that we wear? If so, how should we read these codes and themes in order to decipher their relation to ...(展开全部)

"The most powerful book of its kind I've ever read.... Extraordinary powers of observation, generalization, and depth."—Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat Winner of the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award. Robert Murphy was in the prime of his career as an anthropologist when he felt the first symptom of a malady that would ultimately tak...(展开全部)

"The most powerful book of its kind I've ever read.... Extraordinary powers of observation, generalization, and depth."—Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat Winner of the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award. Robert Murphy was in the prime of his career as an anthropologist when he felt the first symptom of a malady that would ultimately tak...(展开全部)

'Once in a while a manuscript stops you in your tracks...What we are offered here is no recovering of old ground but a step change in perspectives on "body matters" that is both innovative and of fundamental importance to anyone working on this sociological terrain...This text is groundbreaking and simply has to be read' - Acta Sociologica 'this is Shilling at his creative be...(展开全部)

'Once in a while a manuscript stops you in your tracks...What we are offered here is no recovering of old ground but a step change in perspectives on "body matters" that is both innovative and of fundamental importance to anyone working on this sociological terrain...This text is groundbreaking and simply has to be read' - Acta Sociologica 'this is Shilling at his creative be...(展开全部)

伊芙．恩斯勒（Eve Ensler） 是國際暢銷作家，也是著名劇作家，曾獲《新聞週刊》（Newsweek）評選為「一百五十位改變世界的女人」之一。她的戲劇創作包括《陰道獨白》（The Vagina Monologues）、《必要目標》（Necessary Targets）和《好身體》（The Good Body），書籍著作有：《終於不安全》（Insecure at Last），以及榮登紐約時報（New York Times）暢銷榜的《我是情緒性的生物》（I Am an Emotional Creature），她並將這本書改編為舞台劇《情緒性生物》（Emotional Creature）。 此外，恩斯勒也是V-Day運動的創始人。V-Day是終止對女性施暴的全球運動，迄今已經為全球各地的婦女組織和社會運動者募集超過九千萬美元，也促成了另一全球性運動「十...(展开全部)

At a time when the world was falling apart— in an age of religious wars, plague, and the Great Fire of London—a group of men looked around them and saw a world of perfect order. Chaotic as it looked, these earliest scientists declared, the universe was in fact an intricate and perfectly regulated clockwork. This was the tail-end of Shakespeare’s century, and these were brillian...(展开全部)

爱德华·多尼克（EdwardDolnick） 美国作家，曾任《波士顿环球报》科学专栏作家。文章散见《大西洋月刊》《纽约时报杂志》《华盛顿邮报》等，著有《救援艺术家》《伪画家的技能》等书，其中《救援艺术家》一书获得2006年爱伦·坡奖（佳犯罪实录类）。对于写作《机械宇宙》一书，具有麻省理工学院数学硕士学位的他形容自己“再次回到自己的根源”。

At a time when the world was falling apart— in an age of religious wars, plague, and the Great Fire of London—a group of men looked around them and saw a world of perfect order. Chaotic as it looked, these earliest scientists declared, the universe was in fact an intricate and perfectly regulated clockwork. This was the tail-end of Shakespeare’s century, and these were brillian...(展开全部)

爱德华·多尼克（EdwardDolnick） 美国作家，曾任《波士顿环球报》科学专栏作家。文章散见《大西洋月刊》《纽约时报杂志》《华盛顿邮报》等，著有《救援艺术家》《伪画家的技能》等书，其中《救援艺术家》一书获得2006年爱伦·坡奖（佳犯罪实录类）。对于写作《机械宇宙》一书，具有麻省理工学院数学硕士学位的他形容自己“再次回到自己的根源”。