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Coming of Age in Samoa
Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike. Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken where she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork. Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures. The "civilized" world, she taught us had much to learn from the "primitive." Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of her birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. -
艺术人类学
《艺术人类学》是莱顿教授于20世纪70年代在伦敦大学人类学系所授课程教案的基础上完成的。莱顿为读者介绍了非西方社会艺术形式的丰富性和多样性,强调了跨文化的审美赏析问题,讨论了多样化的使用艺术的种种形式,进而提出一个基本问题:是什么构成了艺术?莱顿将特定的艺术产品和仪式、神话与权力的关系联系在一起,他还探讨了人类学和社会学当代理论的艺术观。 -
Red Lights
In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karaoke hostesses—a career whose name disguises the sex work and minimizes the surprising influence these women often have as power brokers. Zheng embarked on two years of intensely embedded ethnographic fieldwork in her birthplace, Dalian, a large northeastern Chinese seaport of over six million people. During this time, Zheng lived and worked with a group of hostesses in a karaoke bar, facing many of the same dangers that they did and forming strong, intimate bonds with them. The result is an especially engaging, moving story of young, rural women struggling to find meaning, develop a modern and autonomous identity, and, ultimately, survive within an oppressively patriarchal state system. Moving from her case studies to broader theories of sex, gender, and power, Zheng connects a growth in capitalist entrepreneurialism to the emergence of an urban sex industry, brilliantly illuminating the ways in which hostesses, their clients, and the state are mutually created in postsocialist China.少数的法则
The Golden Bough
A world classic. The Golden Bough describes our ancestors' primitive methods of worship, sex practices, strange rituals and festivals. Disproving the popular thought that primitive life was simple, this monumental survey shows that savage man was enmeshed in a tangle of magic, taboos, and superstitions. Revealed here is the evolution of man from savagery to civilization, from the modification of his weird and often bloodthirsty customs to the entry of lasting moral, ethical, and spiritual values.他者的眼光
在这部内容新颖的著作中,罗伯特·莱顿回顾了曾经启发过世界人类学者之研究工作的各种观点,对理论提供了简明扼要的分析,并回顾了这些理论被导入人类学争论的过程。开篇便阐释了由霍布斯、卢梭、马克思和涂尔干等人提出的经典理论观点;随后的章节讨论了功能主义、经构主义、互动理论和马克思主义人类学;概要最后还描述了社会生态学与后现代主义争论的范例。莱顿教授有详细的案例研究勾勒出了各种理论观点何以形成对特定的人类社会充分而有说服力的描述。