Anthropologists who have lost their senses write ethnographies that are often disconnected from the worlds they seek to portray. For most anthropologists, Stoller contends, tasteless theories are more important than the savory sauces of ethnographic life. That they have lost the smells, sounds, and tastes of the places they study is unfortunate for them, for their subjects, and...(展开全部)

The very form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globalization. Featuring nine of the leading scholars in the field, this innovative exploration of these transformations develops an ethnographic methodology and theoretical apparatus to assess perceptions of power in three regions where state reform and violence have been particularly dram...(展开全部)

Offering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the city which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and urban space, .the author approaches the city as essentially a "material" place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions. Urban cult...(展开全部)

This book brings together a group of Judith Butler's philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray, and Fanon. Drawing on her early work on Hegelian desire and her subsequent reflections o...(展开全部)

This book brings together a group of Judith Butler's philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray, and Fanon. Drawing on her early work on Hegelian desire and her subsequent reflections o...(展开全部)

Putting China into the context of general anthropology offers novel insights into its history, culture and society. Studies in the anthropology of China need to look outwards, to other anthropological areas, while at the same time, anthropologists specialised elsewhere cannot afford to ignore contributions from China. This book introduces a number of key themes and in each case...(展开全部)

Here is the story of Anna Blume, a woman who has come to an unnamed city in search of her brother. Her notebook recounts her quest in this cruel modern landscape, and through her anguished narrative, Auster presents a frightening vision of the future.

在线阅读本书 In this novel Paul Auster offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - a futuristic world - but one which may be seen to shadow our own. Auster's other work includes "The New York Trilogy" and "Hand to Mouth", and the screenplays "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face".

康斯坦斯·克拉森，康考迪亚大学的研究员，感觉史研究专家，长期专注于感觉史的研究，致力于探索人类感官知觉与文化之间的关系，以及感官经验如何影响了社会和文化的发展等主题。代表作有《感觉的世界 :探索历史与跨文化的感觉》《芳香 :嗅觉文化史》《深层感知 :触摸的文化史》《感知的方式 :理解社会中的感官》，曾担任六卷本《感官文化史》丛书的主编。

【作者】 理查德·G.纽豪瑟（Richard G. Newhauser） 亚利桑那州立大学（Arizona State University）英语与中世纪研究教授，其研究方向是道德传统与感官史。他的著作包括：《贪婪的早期历史》（The Early History of Greed ，2000；再版于2006年）；《罪恶：西欧中世纪道德传统论集》（Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages，2007）；（合编）《中世纪和近代早期文化中的罪恶观》（Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture，2012）等。 【译者】 钱文逸，艺术史学者、译者。早年求学于英国伦敦大学学院，获艺术史与材料研究学士学位（2014年）和艺术史硕士学位（2015年）...(展开全部)