'As a introduction to the study of ethnicity, [this] book will do excellently.' Ethnologia Scandinavica Ethnicity and nationalism are pervasive features of the contemporary world, but how far is ethnicity a result of cultural differences, and how much is it in fact dependent on the practical use of, and belief in, such differences? In this book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen demonstra...(展开全部)

The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico-economic processes in the formation of sociality, intimate relations, family histories, reproductive strategies and gender rel...(展开全部)

Responding to the challenges from the worlds they study and reflecting critically on their own practice, anthropologists have recently devoted new attention to ethics and morality. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent scholars working in this field—Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane—to discuss, in a lecture format, the way in which ant...(展开全部)

作者 | 张光直（Kwang-chih Chang，1931—2001） 当代著名人类学家、考古学家。毕生致力于中国史前考古。著有《古代中国考古学》《商文明》《中国青铜时代》等多部重要作品。他是沟通中西方考古学的“架桥人”，主张将中国考古学置于世界文化舞台。 作者 | 薛爱华（Edward Hetzel Schafer，1913—1991） 美国历史学家、汉学家，任教于加州大学伯克利分校，曾任美国东方学会会长，以唐史研究而著称。著有《撒马尔罕的金桃：唐代舶来品研究》《朱雀：唐代的南方意象》《珠崖：12世纪之前的海南岛》《神女：唐代文学中的龙女与雨女》等作品。 作者 | 牟复礼（Frederick W. Mote，1922—2005） 美国汉学家、中国史学者，普林斯顿大学东亚系的奠基人。曾主持编写《剑桥中国史·明代史》，将萧公权名著《中国政治思想史》译...(展开全部)

This book examines major areas of late imperial Chinese culture, and their relation to Chinese culture today, focusing on the competence and sophistication of ordinary people. The work provides an overview of late imperial society and its responses to forces for change. Its ethnographically rich treatment of changes in family life under Communist rule is based on the author's f...(展开全部)

Myron L. Cohen is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and an affiliate of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He is the author of House United, House Divided: The Chinese Family in Taiwan, and Asia Case Studies in the Social Sciences: A Guide for Teaching.

Power and its Disguises examines ways in which anthropology can help us understand a world which is experiencing profound changes in the relationships between governments and the societies they govern. While some developments seem to offer the promise of greater freedom, the New World Order is pregnant with the symptoms of crisis, from the explosive nationalisms of the former S...(展开全部)

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