《人思之人:文化科学和自然科学的统一性》是一本非同寻常的书。作者对西方自古希腊以来便接受的某些理念投以摧毁的目光……从紧扣对亲属关系主要理论(如迪尔凯姆、摩尔根、冯·惹奈普、列维—斯特劳斯和施奈德的理论)的研究出发，依据对陛禁忌起源解释的多样性，在与上述每种理论逐一对话的过程中，作者建立了—个普遍理论。借助这个普遍理论，他出色地重新审视了文化、身份和价值观等问题。

This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the most important influence on the symbolic universe of ordinary villagers and demonstrate their remarkable capacity for religious and artistic creation. The great festivals described in this book were their supreme collective achievements and were carried out virtually without assistance from local officials or educated elites, clerical or lay. Chinese culture was a performance culture, and ritual was the highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, and extraordinarily diverse. Festivals and their associated rituals and operas provided the emotional and intellectual materials out of which ordinary people constructed their ideas about the world of men and the realm of the gods. It is, David Johnson argues, impossible to form an adequate idea of traditional Chinese society without a thorough understanding of village ritual. Newly discovered liturgical manuscripts allow him to reconstruct North Chinese temple festivals in unprecedented detail and prove that they are sharply different from the Daoist- and Buddhist-based communal rituals of South China.

This volume explores irony and cynicism as part of the social life of local communities in China, and specifically in relation to the contemporary Chinese state. It collects ethnographies of irony and cynicism in social action, written by a group of anthropologists who specialise in China. They use the lenses of irony and cynicism - broadly defined to include resignation, resistance, humour, ambiguity and dialogue - to look anew at the social, political and moral contradictions faced by Chinese people. The various contributions are concerned with both the interpretation of intentions in everyday social action and discourse, and the broader theoretical consequences of such interpretations for an understanding of the Chinese state. As a study of irony and cynicism in modern China and their implications on the social and political aspects of everyday life, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of social and cultural anthropology, Chinese culture and society, and Chinese politics.

二人转是生长在东北的一门“土得掉渣儿”的艺术，自诞生以来，虽屡遭禁止，却以其亲民的形式和内容受到东北人的喜爱，它就像车轱辘菜一样在乡间的泥土之中踩不死、压不败，生生不息。本书借“车轱辘菜”之喻，以“东北二人转在乡土社会中的传承”为主题，通过民俗学田野调查及文献研究方法，对东北二人转在乡土社会中的历史传承情况及现状进行“深描”，并试图探索出二人转的未来发展之路。 读者对象 社会学、民俗学领域的研究人员，大专院校相关专业师生，对此感兴趣的读者。

作者在书中讲述了印第安人各个族群关于陶器、夜鹰、树懒的各种各样的神话传说。在分析和研究这些神话中，他概括了印第安神话的三大主题，即食欲、嫉妒或夫妇不和、爆裂，提出并证明了不定型理论、鸣禽理论、貘的理论、林栖动物理论、莱因瓶理论，指明了神话的动物元素和动物的象征性，指出了神话思维的本质：符号的多样性和任意性，还指出神话世界的三层空间，即天、地、地下。他通过所有这些分析和比较，通过他所创立的典型式的应用，找出了各种神话因素对应或对立的关系，使得似乎是斑驳的、杂乱无章的、毫无联系的神话变得有条有理、秩序井然、可以理解。

马昌仪，女，1936年生。1957年毕业于北京大学。中国社会科学院文学研究所研究员，中国民间文艺家协会理事。主要著作有《石与石神》(合作)、《中国灵魂信仰》、《鼠咬天开》、《中国神话学文论选萃》(选编)等。