"The most powerful book of its kind I've ever read.... Extraordinary powers of observation, generalization, and depth."—Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat Winner of the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award. Robert Murphy was in the prime of his career as an anthropologist when he felt the first symptom of a malady that would ultimately take him on an odyssey stranger than any field trip to the Amazon: a tumor of the spinal cord that progressed slowly and irreversibly into quadriplegia. In this gripping account, Murphy explores society's fears, myths, and misunderstandings about disability, and the damage they inflict. He reports how paralysis—like all disabilities—assaults people's identity, social standing, and ties with others, while at the same time making the love of life burn even more fiercely.

Both on the continent and off, "Africa" is spoken of in terms of crisis: as a place of failure and seemingly insurmountable problems, as a moral challenge to the international community. What, though, is really at stake in discussions about Africa, its problems, and its place in the world? And what should be the response of those scholars who have sought to understand not the "Africa" portrayed in broad strokes in journalistic accounts and policy papers but rather specific places and social realities within Africa? In "Global Shadows", the renowned anthropologist James Ferguson moves beyond the traditional anthropological focus on local communities to explore more general questions about Africa and its place in the contemporary world.Ferguson develops his argument through a series of provocative essays which open - as he shows they necessarily must - into interrogations of globalization, modernity, worldwide inequality, and social justice. He maintains that Africans in a variety of different social and geographical locations increasingly seek to make claims of membership within a global community, claims that contest the marginalization that has so far been the principal fruit of "globalization" for Africa.Ferguson contends that such claims demand new understandings of the global centred less on trans-national flows and images of unfettered connection than on the social relations that selectively constitute global society and on the rights and obligations that characterize it. Ferguson points out that anthropologists and others who have refused the category of Africa as empirically problematic have, in their devotion to particularity, allowed themselves to remain bystanders in the broader conversations about Africa. In "Global Shadows", he urges fellow scholars into the arena, encouraging them to find a way to speak beyond the academy about Africa's position within an egregiously imbalanced world order.

In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-chō red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game for the hosts who employ feathered bangs, polished nails, fine European suits, and the sensitivity of the finest salesmen to create a fantasy for wealthy women seeking an escape from the everyday. Akiko Takeyama's investigation of this beguiling underground "love business" provides an intimate window into Japanese host clubs and the lives of hosts, clients, club owners, and managers. The club is a place where fantasies are pursued and the art of seduction isn't merely about romance; a complex set of transactions emerges. Like a casino of love, the host club is a site of desperation, aspiration, and hope, in which both hosts and clients are eager to roll the dice. Takeyama reveals the aspirational mode not only of the host club, but also of a Japanese society built on the commercialization of aspiration, seducing its citizens out of the present and into a future where hopes and dreams are imaginable—and billions of dollars can be made.

【编辑推荐】 * 《浪漫的谎言与小说的真实》作者勒内•基拉尔又一力作。 * 神圣的祭祀为何总与暴力相关？祈愿和平的仪式里为何总有活人祭祀的残忍行为？ * 痛打“替罪羊”何以维护初民社会的内部稳定？ * 综合人类学、考古学、精神分析、心理学、哲学的跨学科作品，用“攀比模仿”论超越“俄狄浦斯情节”，建构另一种人类隐秘欲望的模型假说。 【内容简介】 这是一部跨学科研究的典范，涉及人类学、考古学、心理学、法学等诸多领域。基于对列维-斯特劳斯，罗杰•凯卢瓦等人有关人类早期祭祀活动的调查，本书对广泛存在于初民社会中的“活人祭神”行为的逻辑和功能提出了独树一帜的见解。作者认为人类族群中普遍存在一种“替罪羊”机制，杀死“替罪羊”可以将对内的暴力隐患释放到族群之外，从而保全族群内部的和平稳定。因此，暴力的祭祀活动并非宗教自身的产物，而源自族群化解内部矛盾的需求。祭祀行为是人类早期社会的重要组成部分，本书的思路对于进一步理解与阐释早期中国或可提供别样的启示。 作者勒内•基拉尔是法国著名思想家、文学批评家，被誉为“人类认知领域的新达尔文”。我社还曾出版过他的《浪漫的谎言与小说的真实》。基拉尔的学说以“攀比摹仿”论超越弗洛依德的“俄狄浦斯情结”，认为欲望是人类的本性，因此羡慕嫉妒是人类的必然情感，冲突在所难免。而“替罪羊”的作用就在于将冲突从内部转移至外部，使其化解，因此其存在是必然也是必要的。基拉尔几部作品中的观点一以贯之，逻辑严密，自成一家，是法国思想性写作的典范。

This methods book will guide the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study through the understanding of self, other, and culture. Readers will be encouraged to follow hands-on, though not prescriptive, steps in data collection, analysis, and interpretation with self-reflective prewriting exercises and self-narrative writing exercises to produce their own autoethnographic work. Chang offers a variety of techniques for gathering data on the self―from diaries to culture grams to interviews with others―and shows how to transform this information into a study that looks for the connection with others present in a diverse world. She shows how the autoethnographic process promotes self-reflection, understanding of multicultural others, qualitative inquiry, and narrative writing. Samples of published autoethnographies provide exemplars for the novice researcher to follow.

本卷是《涂尔干文集》的第六卷，共包括六编。第一编为《乱伦禁忌及其起源》，主题为“存在的社会起源”，它是涂尔干中晚期社会思想发展的一个里程碑文种包括其宗教社会学和知识社会学的一些关键概念；此外，本卷也编排了涂尔干有关宗教研究的其他重要文献，其中包括一些文章、笔记、书评和讨论。这些文献不仅有助于澄清涂尔干有关原始宗教的基本观点，也可以帮助我们依照上述线索来体会宗教与现代社会的关系。 本卷收录的第一篇文献，为《乱伦禁忌及其起源》。这篇文献为1898年发表在《社会学年鉴》第一卷的第一篇文章，足见其在涂尔干本人的理论发展和“社会学年鉴”学派的思想传承中举足轻重的地位。除形式上的重要性外，本文在内容上也可以说是涂尔干思想转向的一个标志，与《分类的几种原始形式》(即《原始分类》)和《宗教生活的基本形式》相比，本文发表得最早，而且论题专一，集中于“存在的社会起源”上。为何将“乱伦”作为核心议题，涂尔干说得很清楚：正因为乱伦(inceste)不仅是被禁止的，而且被当作所有不道德行为中最严重的一种，所以，乱伦禁忌应该是社会规制的最初形式，其形态学上的原始形式就是外婚制(exogamie)；换言之，道德的起点完全可以归结为这样一种制度，而考察乱伦禁忌的线索，就是追查外婚制生成发展的脉络。然而，涂尔干并未就此止步，他继承并修正了弗雷泽的研究路线，认为外婚制与图腾制度不仅彼此有所关联，而且两者之间的关系占据首要的地位，相比而言，外婚制与血亲之间的关系则是次要的；考察前一种关系的核心要素，就是原始的仪式和仪轨，而在有关仪式和仪轨的考察中，“集体表现”(representadon collective)不仅能够扮演重要的角色，其社会学意涵也可以得到呈示。可以说，《乱伦禁忌及其起源》是涂尔干中晚期社会思想发展的一个里程碑，涂尔干宗教社会学和知识社会学中的一些关键概念，在本文中都已露出端倪了。 此外，本卷也编排了涂尔干有关宗教研究的其他重要文献，其中包括一些文章、笔记、书评和讨论。这些文献不仅有助于澄清涂尔于有关原始宗教的基本观点，也可以帮助我们依照上述线索来体会宗教与现代社会的关系。 以“个人主义与知识分子”、“知识分子精英与民主”和“1789年的原则与社会学”为代表的诸多文献，以及涂尔干为《社会学年鉴》前两卷撰写的序言，迄今为止始终被学术界公认为是最能体现涂尔干理论倾向与现实关怀的理论文献。读者可以从中清清楚楚地看到，一个伟大的思想家是怎样从学理上界清“道德个人主义”的基本观念，并在充分说明这种观念之限制的情况下，将其诉诸实践的。 本卷选编的第四部分文献，以“人性的两重性及其社会条件”为先导，引入了涂尔干有关社会学及其方法的讨论。在这篇文章中，涂尔干通过“人性的两重性”观念，向我们阐明了他是如何面对、处理和力求解决康德的难题的；因而，读者也可尝试从这篇文章中区辨涂尔干主义与康德主义之间的微妙关系。在本部分收录的其他文献中，读者也可以通过涂尔干对同时代其他理论家的解析和批评，从更宽广的平面上，把握涂尔干社会学的基本观念，洞察涂尔干与其他理论流派之间相互影响、承续乃至对立的复杂局面。 在本卷的末尾，我们也选编了一些涂尔干关于家庭史和法制史研究的论文，倘若把这些文章与涂尔干很著名的一些著作配合来读，读者想必会得到很多的乐趣和发现。

"Levi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom . . . a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments. . . . ["The Raw and the Cooked"] adds yet another chapter to the tireless quest for a scientifically accurate, esthetically viable, and philosophically relevant cultural anthropology. . . . [It is] indispensable reading."--"Natural History "

For well over a century, Chinese fengshui, or "geomancy," has interested Western laymen and scholars. Today, hundreds of popular manuals claim to use its principles in their advice on how people can increase their wealth, happiness, longevity, and so on. This study is quite different, approaching fengshui from an academic angle. The focus is on its significance in China, but the recent history of its reinterpretation in the West is also depicted. The author argues that fengshui serves as an alternative tradition of cosmological knowledge, which is used to explain a range of everyday occurrences in rural areas, such as disease, mental disorders, accidents, and common mischief. The study includes a historical account of fengshui over the last 150 years augmented by the results of anthropological fieldwork on contemporary practices in two Chinese rural areas.

A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass media This fascinating book presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, and media. Ranging from funerary masks and masks in drama to the figural work of contemporary artists including Cindy Sherman and Nam June Paik, renowned art historian Hans Belting emphasizes that while the face plays a critical role in human communication, it defies attempts at visual representation. Belting divides his book into three parts: faces as masks of the self, portraiture as a constantly evolving mask in Western culture, and the fate of the face in the age of mass media. Referencing a vast array of sources, Belting's insights draw on art history, philosophy, theories of visual culture, and cognitive science. He demonstrates that Western efforts to portray the face have repeatedly failed, even with the developments of new media such as photography and film, which promise ever-greater degrees of verisimilitude. In spite of sitting at the heart of human expression, the face resists possession, and creative endeavors to capture it inevitably result in masks―hollow signifiers of the humanity they're meant to embody. From creations by Van Eyck and August Sander to works by Francis Bacon, Ingmar Bergman, and Chuck Close, Face and Mask takes a remarkable look at how, through the centuries, the physical visage has inspired and evaded artistic interpretation.

Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was perhaps the most influential anthropologist of our time, but his influence extended far beyond his field to encompass all facets of contemporary life. Nowhere were his gifts for directness, humor, and steady revelation more evident than in the pages of "The New York Review of Books", where for nearly four decades he shared his acute vision of the world in all its peculiarity. This book brings together the finest of Geertz's review essays from "The New York Review" along with a representative selection of later pieces written at the height of his powers, some that first appeared in periodicals such as "Dissent", others never before published. This collection exemplifies Geertz's extraordinary range of concerns, beginning with his first essay for "The Review" in 1967, in which he reviews, with muffled hilarity, the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. This book includes Geertz's unflinching meditations on Western academia's encounters with the non-western world, and on the shifting and clashing places of societies in the world generally. Geertz writes eloquently and arrestingly about such major figures as Gandhi, Foucault, and Genet, and on topics as varied as Islam, globalization, feminism, and the failings of nationalism. "Life among the Anthros and Other Essays" demonstrates Geertz's uncommon wisdom and consistently keen and hopeful humor, confirming his status as one of our most important and enduring public intellectuals.

After more than fifteen years of teaching, Rebekah Nathan, a professor of anthropology at a large state university, realized that she no longer understood the behavior and attitudes of her students. Fewer and fewer participated in class discussion, tackled the assigned reading, or came to discuss problems during office hours. And she realized from conversations with her colleagues that they, too, were perplexed: Why were students today so different and so hard to teach? Were they, in fact, more likely to cheat, ruder, and less motivated? Did they care at all about their education, besides their grades? Nathan decided to put her wealth of experience in overseas ethnographic fieldwork to use closer to home and apply to her own university. Accepted on the strength of her high school transcript, she took a sabbatical and enrolled as a freshman for the academic year. She immersed herself in student life, moving into the dorms and taking on a full course load. She ate in the student cafeteria, joined student clubs, and played regular pick-up games of volleyball and tag football (sports at which the athletic fifty-something-year-old could hold her own). Nathan had resolved that, if asked, she would not lie about her identity; she found that her classmates, if they were curious about why she was attending college at her age, never questioned her about her personal life. Based on her interviews and conversations with fellow classmates, her interactions with professors and with other university employees and offices, and her careful day-to-day observations, My Freshman Year provides a compelling account of college life that should be read by students, parents, professors, university administrators, and anyone else concerned about the state of higher education in America today. Placing her own experiences and those of her classmates into a broader context drawn from national surveys of college life, Nathan finds that today's students face new challenges to which academic institutions have not adapted. At the end of her freshman year, she has an affection and respect for students as a whole that she had previously reserved only for certain individuals. Being a student, she discovers, is hard work. But she also identifies fundamental misperceptions, misunderstandings, and mistakes on both sides of the educational divide that negatively affect the college experience. By focusing on the actual experiences of students, My Freshman Year offers a refreshing alternative to the frequently divisive debates surrounding the political, economic, and cultural significance of higher education—as well as a novel perspective from which to look at the achievements and difficulties confronting America's colleges and universities in the twenty-first century.

This new collection of essays presents the latest thoughts of one of the world's leading ethnographic filmmakers and writers on cinema. It will provide essential reading for students in cinema studies, filmmaking, and visual anthropology. The dozen wide-ranging essays give unique insights into the history of documentary, how films evoke space, time and physical sensations, and the intellectual and emotional links between filmmakers and their subjects. In an era of reality television, historical re-enactments, and designer packaging, MacDougall defends the principles that inspired the earliest practitioners of documentary cinema. He urges us to consider how the form can more accurately reflect the realities of our everyday lives. Building on his own practice in filmmaking, he argues that this means resisting the pressures for self-censorship and the inherent ethnocentrism of our own society and those we film. -- .

Design Anthropology brings together a unique range of cutting-edge design theorists and social scientists to explore the changing object culture of the 21st century. Decades ago, product designers utilised basic market research to fine-tune their designs for consumer success today the design process has been radically transformed; the user is now centre-stage in the design process. From design ethnography to cultural probing, innovative designers in the 21st century are relying on anthropological methods to illicit the meaning, rather than the mere form and function of stuff. The work offers the definitive guide to the issues facing the shapers of our increasingly complex material world. How has user-experience transformed our understanding of design? And how do leading design corporations, from IDEO to INTEL, harness the insight of anthropologists in generating future visions? Why are new disciplines, like digital anthropology, shaping our increasingly de-materialised product cultures?

A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora's Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.In this book Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new "bête noire of the science worshipers," gives us his most philosophically informed book since Science in Action. Through case studies of scientists in the Amazon analyzing soil and in Pasteur's lab studying the fermentation of lactic acid, he shows us the myriad steps by which events in the material world are transformed into items of scientific knowledge. Through many examples in the world of technology, we see how the material and human worlds come together and are reciprocally transformed in this process.Why, Latour asks, did the idea of an independent reality, free of human interaction, emerge in the first place? His answer to this question, harking back to the debates between Might and Right narrated by Plato, points to the real stakes in the so-called science wars: the perplexed submission of ordinary people before the warring forces of claimants to the ultimate truth.

**Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2010** What is good care? In this innovative and compelling book, Annemarie Mol argues that good care has little to do with 'patient choice' and, therefore, creating more opportunities for patient choice will not improve health care. Although it is possible to treat people who seek professional help as customers or citizens, Mol argues that this undermines ways of thinking and acting crucial to health care. Illustrating the discussion with examples from diabetes clinics and diabetes self care, the book presents the 'logic of care' in a step by step contrast with the 'logic of choice'. She concludes that good care is not a matter of making well argued individual choices but is something that grows out of collaborative and continuing attempts to attune knowledge and technologies to diseased bodies and complex lives. Mol does not criticise the practices she encountered in her field work as messy or ad hoc, but makes explicit what it is that motivates them: an intriguing combination of adaptability and perseverance. The Logic of Care: Health and the problem of patient choice is crucial reading for all those interested in the theory and practice of care, including sociologists, anthropologists and health care professionals. It will also speak to policymakers and become a valuable source of inspiration for patient activists.

The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of the arteries, but in hospital practice this one medical condition appears to be many other things as well. From one moment, place, apparatus, specialty, or treatment to the next, a slightly different "atherosclerosis" is being discussed, measured, observed, or stripped away. Mol demonstrates that this multiplicity does not imply fragmentation. Instead, the disease is made to cohere through a range of tactics including transporting forms and files, making images, holding case conferences, and conducting doctor-patient conversations. The Body Multiple juxtaposes two distinct texts. Alongside Mol's analysis of her ethnographic material - interviews with doctors and patients; observations of medical examinations, consultations, and operations - runs a parallel text in which she reflects on the relevant literature. Mol draws on medical anthropology, sociology, feminist theory, philosophy, and science and technology studies to reframe such issues as the disease-illness distinction, subject-object relations, boundaries, difference, situatedness, and ontology. In dialogue with one another, Mol's two texts meditate on the multiplicity of reality-in-practice. Presenting philosophical reflections on the body and medical practice through vivid storytelling, The Body Multiple will be important to those in medical anthropology, philosophy, and the social study of science, technology, and medicine.