"The Living House" was the first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of the house within the social and symbolic worlds of Southeast Asian peoples. A pioneering title that has become a classic, this exemplary text draws on many sources of information, from architects and anthropologists, to the author's own firsthand research. As it probes into the centrally signific...(展开全部)

Despite the growth of interest in the history of anthropology as a over the last two decades, surprisingly little has been published in English on the development of anthropology in East and Southeast Asia and its relationship to the rest of the academic "world-system." The anthropological experience in this region has been varied. Japanese anthropology developed early, and ran...(展开全部)

Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview of how anthropologists have studied architecture and the extraordinarily rich thought and data this has produced. With a focus on domestic space - that intimate context in which anthropologists traditionally work - the book explains ...(展开全部)

耶鲁大学政治科学和人类学斯特林教授、农业研究计划主任,普林斯顿高等研究院研究员。其研究兴趣包括政治经济学、无政府主义、意识形态、农民政治学、革命、东南亚和阶级关系等。主要著作包括《马来西亚的政治意识形态》(1968)、《比较政治腐败》(1972)、《农民的道义经济学》(1976)、《弱者的武器》(1986)、《统治与抵抗的艺术》(1992)等。

耶鲁大学政治科学和人类学斯特林教授、农业研究计划主任,普林斯顿高等研究院研究员。其研究兴趣包括政治经济学、无政府主义、意识形态、农民政治学、革命、东南亚和阶级关系等。主要著作包括《马来西亚的政治意识形态》(1968)、《比较政治腐败》(1972)、《农民的道义经济学》(1976)、《弱者的武器》(1986)、《统治与抵抗的艺术》(1992)等。

The history of the book in East Asia is closely linked to problems of language and script, problems which have also had a profound impact on the technology of printing and on the social and intellectual impact of print in this area. This volume contains key readings on the history of printed books and manuscripts in China, Korea and Japan and includes an introduction which prov...(展开全部)

In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to the slaver made it a convention pursued unreflectively. Slavery in medieval East Asia shared with the West the commonpl...(展开全部)

In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to the slaver made it a convention pursued unreflectively. Slavery in medieval East Asia shared with the West the commonpl...(展开全部)

This volume examines an often taken for granted concept—that of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life? Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs to be deciphered, the anthropologists and philosophers...(展开全部)