马林诺夫斯基(1884～1942)英国人类学家。功能学派创始人之一。生于波兰，卒于美国。1908年以全奥地利最优等成绩获得物理学和数学博士学位。后到莱比锡奥斯特瓦尔德理化实验室从事研究，受到德国心理学家W.冯特的影响。他在英国人类学家J.G.弗雷泽的《金枝》启发下，开始对人类学发生兴趣。 马林诺夫斯基在学术观点上对进化学派、传播学派和历史学派都持反对态度。他认为，物质器具和社会思想只有在具有满足人类的生物需要和社会需要时 ，才能存留和传播，若失去这种功能，便会在历史上消失。原始文化，例如宗教和巫术，对原始居民具有心理的和社会的需要，原始的氏族和部落机构，适应原始居民生活实际。因此他建议英国殖民当局采取保持原始居民机构的政策，通过原始居民的首领对原始居民实行长期统治。其著作还有《野蛮社会的犯罪和习俗》、《西北美拉尼西亚的野蛮人性生活》、《自由和文明》...(展开全部)

Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern’s Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly folded, the manuscript went into storage, where it remained for more tha...(展开全部)

Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern’s Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly folded, the manuscript went into storage, where it remained for more tha...(展开全部)

Donald J. Trump is an icon: the very definition of the American success story. The star of The Apprentice and developer of some of the planet's most prestigious real estate, he's been on the bottom and risen to become one of the world's wealthiest men. Bill Zanker started The Learning Annex with $5,000 and grew it into a $5 million a year company. That was before he met Donald ...(展开全部)

Donald J. Trump is an icon: the very definition of the American success story. The star of The Apprentice and developer of some of the planet's most prestigious real estate, he's been on the bottom and risen to become one of the world's wealthiest men. Bill Zanker started The Learning Annex with $5,000 and grew it into a $5 million a year company. That was before he met Donald ...(展开全部)

In this long-awaited ethnography, Chuan-kang Shih details the traditional social and cultural conditions of the Moso, a matrilineal group living on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in southwest China. Among the Moso, a majority of the adult population practice a visiting system called tisese instead of marriage as the normal sexual and reproductive institution. Until ...(展开全部)

苏珊·M·斯奎尔 (Susan M· Squier)，斯坦福大学博士，宾夕法尼亚州立大学女性研究学院与英语学院布里尔荣休教授，曾任美国文学、科学与人文协会主席。她的代表著作有：《女性作家与城市：女性主义文学批评论文集》（1984)、《武器和女性：战争、性别与文学再现》（1989)、《阈限处的生命：想象生物医学前沿的人类》（2004）等。

It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to pro...(展开全部)