The essays in this collection signal a new relationship between anthropology and the study of art. The authors explore the boundaries and affinities between art, anthropology, representation, and culture, casting a critical, ethnographic light on the art worlds of the contemporary West and their 'traffic' in non-Western objects. Starting from the premise that the traditional an...(展开全部)

China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names o f foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. Splendidly illustrated with works ranging from Bronze Age vessels to twentieth-century conceptual pieces, this volume is a wide-ranging look at zoomorphi...(展开全部)

Not a textbook in the ordinary sense, this work offers a vision of how anthropology - a discipline that operates through intimate knowledge of local societies - can offer vastly increased understanding of society and culture even in this age of mass communication. In its examination of topics ranging as far afield as the mass media, environmental and development issues, kinship...(展开全部)

Product Description "We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but [Stocking's]: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual connections, and c...(展开全部)

At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological research-one where the four fields of anthropology are synthesized to address the multidimensionality of the effects to a community's social structures and relationship to the environment. Using a variety of natural and technological disast...(展开全部)

In this illuminating book, a prominent art historian explores the links between avant-garde art and modern mass culture, showing that the connections between the two have always been strong, and even necessary to both. The author recounts vivid episodes involving Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Christopher Williams, and many others, arriving at fresh and original insights into mo...(展开全部)

The Art of Anthropology collects together the most influential of Gell's writings, which span the past two decades, with a new introductory chapter written by Gell. The essays vividly demonstrate Gell's theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of current anthropological enquiry. A central theme of the essays is Gel's highly origi...(展开全部)

杜朴（Robert L. Thorp），早期中国艺术领域的权威学者，华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校艺术史和考古系荣休教授，著述丰硕。杜朴博士除了在远东广泛游历和参加田野考察工作外，还合作策划了几个重要的展览，并受邀在多个以中国艺术收藏著称的美国博物馆做讲座。 文以诚 （Richard Ellis Vinograd），著名的中国画研究专家，1995 年起任斯坦福大学艺术和艺术史系主任。他是晚期中国（宋代至今）艺术领域备受尊崇的学者，著有《自我的界限：1600-1900 的中国肖像画》，在许多重要刊物上发表过文章和书评。文以诚博士经常受邀以演讲者、评审或研讨者的身份出席有关中国艺术与文化的会议和论坛。

杜朴（Robert L. Thorp），早期中国艺术领域的权威学者，华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校艺术史和考古系荣休教授，著述丰硕。杜朴博士除了在远东广泛游历和参加田野考察工作外，还合作策划了几个重要的展览，并受邀在多个以中国艺术收藏著称的美国博物馆做讲座。 文以诚 （Richard Ellis Vinograd），著名的中国画研究专家，1995 年起任斯坦福大学艺术和艺术史系主任。他是晚期中国（宋代至今）艺术领域备受尊崇的学者，著有《自我的界限：1600-1900 的中国肖像画》，在许多重要刊物上发表过文章和书评。文以诚博士经常受邀以演讲者、评审或研讨者的身份出席有关中国艺术与文化的会议和论坛。

Anthropologists now openly acknowledge that social anthropology can no longer fulfill its traditional aim of providing holistic, objective representations of people of "exotic" cultures. After Writing Culture asks what theoretical and practical role contemporary anthropology can play in our increasingly unpredictable and complex world. With fourteen articles written by well-kno...(展开全部)