"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)

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。

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)

马克·布拉齐尔（Mark Brazil）， 苏格兰斯特灵大学博士，经验丰富的野外鸟类学家。著有《东亚鸟类野外手册》（Birds of East Asia），以及《日本观鸟指南》（ A Birdwatcher's Guide to Japan）、《日本鸟类》（The Birds of Japan）和《大天鹅》（The Whooper Swan）等。

While scholars of East Asia have often focused on the significance of culture and Confucianism for economic growth, this book examines the affective or emotional dimension of capitalist development in the region. Here, affect is defined as felt quality that gives meaning and imagination to social, political, and economic processes, and as this work demonstrates, it can provide ...(展开全部)

Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia explores the long relationship between Buddhism and the state in premodern times and seeks to counter the modern, secularist notion that Buddhism, as a religion, is inherently apolitical. By revealing the methods by which members of Buddhist communities across premodern East Asia related to imperial rule, this volume offers case studies of how B...(展开全部)

This collection brings together cutting-edgework by established and emerging scholars focusing on key societies in the East Asian region: China, Taiwan, Japan, and North and South Korea. Chapters also address Mongolia and Vietnam, two countries often overlooked in studies of East Asia but whose societies have long been impacted by Chinese ideas and influences. This scope enable...(展开全部)