Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward. Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schll shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the "machine zone," in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away. Once in the zone, gambling addicts play not to win but simply to keep playing, for as long as possible--even at the cost of physical and economic exhaustion. In continuous machine play, gamblers seek to lose themselves while the gambling industry seeks profit. Schll describes the strategic calculations behind game algorithms and machine ergonomics, casino architecture and "ambience management," player tracking and cash access systems--all designed to meet the market's desire for maximum "time on device." Her account moves from casino floors into gamblers' everyday lives, from gambling industry conventions and Gamblers Anonymous meetings to regulatory debates over whether addiction to gambling machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two. Addiction by Design is a compelling inquiry into the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance, offering clues to some of the broader anxieties and predicaments of contemporary life.

在线阅读本书 Mary Douglas is a central figure within British social anthropology. Studying under Evans-Pritchard at Oxford immediately after the war, she formed part of the group of anthropologists who established social anthropology's standing in the world of scholarship. Her works, spanning the second half of the twentieth century, have been widely read and her theories applied across the social sciences and humanities.

《文化的解释》是格尔茨文化人类学研究论文的精选集。该书全面梳理了文化人类学研究领域里的误区，对文化的概念、文化与宗教以及文化与意识形态等的关系进行了详实的研究。所有的论文基本上都是通过从一个又一个案例中提出的一个个独特观点，来阐明什么是文化，文化在社会生活中扮演了什么样的角色，以及文化研究应该采取什么样的恰当方法等问题。

In these new essays, a group of experienced ethnographers, a literary critic, and a historian of anthropology, all known for advanced analytic work on ethnographic writing, place ethnography at the center of a new intersection of social history, interpretive anthropology, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. The authors analyze classic examples of cultural description, from Goethe and Catlin to Malinowski, Evans-Pritchard, and Le Roy Ladurie, showing the persistence of allegorial patterns and rhetorical tropes. They assess recent experimental trends and explore the functions of orality, ethnicity, and power in ethnographic composition."Writing Culture" argues that ethnography is in the midst of a political and epistemological crisis: Western writers no longer portray non-Western peoples with unchallenged authority; the process of cultural representation is now inescapably contingent, historical, and contestable. The essays in this volume help us imagine a fully dialectical ethnography acting powerfully in the postmodern world system. They challenge all writers in the humanities and social sciences to rethink the poetics and politics of cultural invention.

In this new book, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in "We Have Never Been Modern, "a work that interrogated the connections between nature and culture. If not modern, he asked, what "have" we been, and what values should we inherit? Over the past twenty-five years, Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associated--a research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific truth conditions. These are the connectors that prompt a climate scientist challenged by a captain of industry to appeal to the "institution" of science, with its army of researchers and mountains of data, rather than to "capital-S Science" as a higher authority. Such modes of extension--or modes of existence, Latour argues here--account for the many differences between law, science, politics, and other domains of knowledge. Though scientific knowledge corresponds to only one of the many possible modes of existence Latour describes, an unrealistic vision of science has become the arbiter of reality and truth, seducing us into judging all values by a single standard. Latour implores us to recover other modes of existence in order to do justice to the plurality of truth conditions that Moderns have discovered throughout their history. This systematic effort of building a new philosophical anthropology presents a completely different view of what Moderns have been, and provides a new basis for opening diplomatic encounters with other societies at a time when all societies are coping with ecological crisis.

From Publishers Weekly The timely question, What caused the current global financial crisis? provokes answers usually aimed at the level of institutions and the more abstract market logic. Ho's refreshing ethnography of the daily lives of Wall Street investment bankers takes another tack and outlines a web of practices, beliefs and structures that may be vital to understanding what keeps the market system in place despite built-in instabilities. Ho, a former business analyst and now an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, unpacks constant downsizing, high risk/high reward job liquidity, shortsighted compensation structures, prestige and the ruse of shareholder value. Her keen eye for the significance of space illuminates workplace narratives, e.g., segregating staff by floor, function and prestige; constant and lavish recruiting events at Princeton and Harvard; and anticlimactically tawdry office space for most workers. The author exposes how elite undergraduates are immersed in a culture promoting finance as the only legitimate job, how educational pedigrees reinforce the financial world's self-image—while the actual jobs remain rigidly hierarchical (stratifying women, people of color and non–Ivy League graduates), highly unstable and isolating, encouraging a culture in which making money is the only value. (Aug.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review "We're pretty familiar with the economic rationale for the regime of cost-cutting and downsizing throughout corporate America in recent decades. But Karen Ho's research greatly enriches our understanding of how Wall Street's own peculiar culture of transient relationships and relentless competition has contributed to the shareholder revolution. And, along the way, her interviews and fieldwork offer a very revealing picture of the mind of Wall Street. A fascinating and important book." Doug Henwood, editor of Left Business Observer " Karen Ho has picked an excellent time to publish her fascinating new study...patient ethnographic analysis has produced a fascinating portrait that will be refreshingly novel to most bankers...Ho peppers her account with revealing eyewitness stories...Most fascinating of all is her account of how Wall Street becomes deluded by its own rhetoric about "market efficiency"...I, for one, would vote that Ho's account becomes mandatory reading on any MBA (or investment banking course); if nothing else, it might be more entertaining than the other texts that bankers swallow so uncritically." Gillian Tett, Financial Times, 2nd October 2009

“上帝给了你一张脸，你却自己造就了另一张。”这句来自《哈姆雷特》剧本中的台词成为当下整形美容市场的一个生动注脚。越来越多不同年龄、不同经济背景的现代人，为了变得更美更年轻，像购买一项日常服务一样选择整形美容手术。这种“美貌的神话”如何在消费革命的推动下愈演愈烈？本书指出，从芭比娃娃到韩流，美容经济的背后是全球化背景下审美观的折射；而中国女性对美的认知和身体实践，则进一步呈现了中国社会文化史的意涵变迁。 ===================================================== 专家推荐： 在一个文化急剧变迁的时代，本书为我们提供了一个难得的机会，来审视人们怎样构筑新的对于美的理解。她们如何改造自己的身体以满足新的社会经济环境的要求？普通人如何获得并学会支配生活中更多的空间？……作者为我们提供的视角，激动人心。 ——吕大乐，香港大学社会学教授 作者采用了多元的分析角度，没有轻率地使用“文化借用”概念来讨论中国女性（面对整形美容手术时）做出的选择，而是从更具反思性的视角来处理文化吸收和文化交流的主题，卓有成效。 ——姜克维（William Jankowiak），内华达大学人类学教授 《看上去很美》这本书的出现恰逢其时。越来越多不同年龄、不同经济背景的中国女性，为了变得更美更年轻而选择接受整容手术，这一社会现象令人着迷，并且愈演愈烈。本书经过细致的调研，对众多经历过整容手术的女性进行深度访谈，将整形美容手术的热潮置于改革开放之后的社会环境中进行考察，同时理解女性接受整容手术的内在动力。 ——赵剑华，路易斯维尔大学人类学副教授

获美国文化人类学学会2010年格雷戈里·贝特森图书奖荣誉奖 金融崩溃——无论是垃圾债券市场、互联网泡沫，还是高杠杆的房地产市场——通常被解释为市场周期的必然结果：上涨的一定会下降。在《清算》一书中，人类学家Ho Karen刺破了抽象的、无所不能的市场光环，揭示金融市场的繁荣和萧条是如何形成的。 曾在投行工作过的Karen访谈了压力重重的第一年的金融从业人员、工作过劳且漠然的证券分析师、渴望被雇佣的大学生、经验丰富的董事长和总经理。这些从精英大学招聘的投资银行家被社会化为一个高风险、高回报的世界。他们得到了丰厚的报酬，条件是随时都可能被解雇。他们的工作场所文化和特权网络造成了这样的印象：工作无保障会塑造性格，而员工的流动性会带来聪明、高效的生意。基于这种与挥霍无度的交易相联系的流动性和补偿行为文化，华尔街的投资银行家们重塑了美国企业的形象。他们的使命是创造股东价值，然而他们的做法和假设却会产生危机。通过将投资银行家的价值行动与市场建设和美国公司重组联系起来，《清算》一书揭示了华尔街特有的文化，而这种文化常常被资本主义全球化的胜利解读所遮蔽。 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 媒体推荐： 就实地考察而言，华尔街并不是一个典型的人类学领域：人类学家通常在遥远的第三世界社会工作……然而，Karen Ho博士以经典人类学的方式开始了她的研究：融入背景，专心倾听，客观中立非评判的方式，然后试图将这些点连接起来，得到关于华尔街文化如何运作的“整体”图景。这种耐心的民族志分析呈现出一个迷人的景象，这甚至对大多数银行家来说都是新奇的。 ——吉莉安·泰特，《金融时报》（Financial Times） Karen Ho是我的英雄。她的20世纪末投资银行家民族志准确描述了投行文化的虚张声势、冷酷无情和矛盾等特征。 ——米切尔·阿沃拉菲亚，《美国社会学杂志》（American Journal of Sociology） 人类学家Karen Ho对华尔街投行的民族志书写是一次成功的尝试，旨在打破华尔街的优越光环，揭示其脆弱、矛盾的一面，以及其企业文化和集体行动常常带来的破坏性影响，这些影响不仅和金融工作者和金融市场有关，也波及美国其他企业。虽然这本书名列人类学和商业研究领域之内，但它具有更广泛的吸引力，并将引起地理学、经济学、社会学人，以及任何试图了解华尔街投资银行的文化、实践与金融变革之间关系的人的兴趣。 ——赖凯伦，《经济地理》杂志（ Journal of Economic Geography） 《清算》一书对大型投资银行的运营进行了生动的描述，证实了读者的某些猜测：这些机构正在成为傲慢及坚不可摧的“宇宙主宰”，从业人员获得了难以理解的巨额收入和“做上帝的工作”的想法。然而，这也表明了金融社会学研究力量的逆转。本书有助于解释投行从业者的思考和行动方式。 ——詹姆斯·G·卡里，《皇家人类学研究所》杂志（Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute） 对于任何打算进入全球各大银行工作的人来说，《清算》一书是必读的。事实上，即使是精英学校的教员，也开始质疑为何有这么多毕业生最终会投身金融行业。这本书应该是这些学校的学生和教师必读的书。” ——本·洛里卡，美国金融工程专业权威排行Quant Net 《清算》这本书的强大之处在于，它仔细观察了人们在华尔街成功或失败的方式，戳穿了很多关于市场运作的假设。” ——基尔·马丁，时代文学增刊（ Times Literary Supplement） 《清算》提供了一个丰富详细的华尔街投资银行的民族志…我在本科经济社会学课程中使用了节选，并向一位投资银行家推荐了该课程。 ——Aaron Z. Pitluck，《工作、就业与社会》（Work, Employment and Society）

A modern nation in a state of total disorder, Colombia is an international flash-point - wracked by more than half a century of civil war, political conflict, and drug-trade related violence - despite a multibillion dollar American commitment that makes it the third-largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid. "Law in a Lawless Land" offers a rare and penetrating insight into the nature of Colombia's present peril. In a nuanced account of the human consequences of a disintegrating state, anthropologist Michael Taussig chronicles two weeks in a small town in Colombia's Cauca Valley taken over by paramilitaries that brazenly assassinate adolescent gang members. Armed with automatic weapons and computer-generated lists of names and photographs, the paramilitaries have the tacit support of the police and even many of the desperate townspeople, who are seeking any solution to the crushing uncertainty of violence in their lives. Concentrating on everyday experience, Taussig forces readers to confront a kind of terror to which they have become numb and complacent.

What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a mode of engaged creative practice carried forward in a world heterogeneously composed of humans and other than humans? Stuart McLean claims that anthropology stands to learn most from art and literature not as “evidence” to support explanations based on an appeal to social context or history but as modes of engagement with the materiality of expressive media—including language—that always retain the capacity to disrupt or exceed the human projects enacted through them. At once comparative in scope and ethnographically informed, Fictionalizing Anthropology draws on an eclectic range of sources, including ancient Mesopotamian myth, Norse saga literature, Hesiod, Lucretius, Joyce, Artaud, and Lispector, as well as film, multimedia, and performance art, along with the concept of “fabulation” (the making of fictions capable of intervening in and transforming reality) developed in the writings of Bergson and Deleuze. Sharing with proponents of anthropology’s recent “ontological turn,” McLean insists that experiments with language and form are a performative means of exploring alternative possibilities of collective existence, new ways of being human and other than human, and that such experiments must therefore be indispensable to anthropology’s engagement with the contemporary world.

"A rich collection that I will use in teaching graduates and undergraduates about the weave of ethnography, narrative, the women's movement, and feminism. Crafted by an impressive range of scholars, the essays are empirically rich and theoretically cogent. But most important, they engage the complexities of multicultural, feminist, and multinational ethnographies and the stories that matter to politics, scholarship, and lives. With an ear for the tones of race and gender, this book answers the political, generic, and theoretical challenge of Writing Culture with layered essays that rewrite an important range of cultural conversations."—Donna Haraway, author of Professor, History of Consciousness Board, UCSC "Since the advent of the 'post-modern' in ethnography, we have been much in need of a marvelous volume such as this, placing 'woman' at the center of the debate. Women Writing Culture will prove as stimulating for our time as its great predecessor, Women, Culture and Society was for the 1970s."—Jose E. Limon, University of Texas "A groundbreaking book—provocative, illuminating, imaginative—and it is a pleasure to read. A trenchant yet always generous feminist critique of the masculinist bias in the theoretical canon of anthropological texts, it expansively and imaginatively maps the future directions of a feminist anthropology. In moving and courageous acts of reconstruction, the writers in this volume boldly cross disciplinary and generic lines, reading fiction as anthropology, writing theater as ethnography, getting personal, radically reconceiving the relationship of self and other and, thereby, the field itself. Feminist scholars of all disciplines will find here enabling textual and conceptual strategies as well as memorable voices and powerful stories."—Marianne Hirsch, Dartmouth College, author of The Mother-Daughter Plot

In February 1999 the tragic New York City police shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed street vendor from Guinea, brought into focus the existence of West African merchants in urban America. In Money Has No Smell, Paul Stoller offers us a more complete portrait of the complex lives of West African immigrants like Diallo, a portrait based on years of research Stoller conducted on the streets of New York City during the 1990s. Blending fascinating ethnographic description with incisive social analysis. Stoller shows how these savvy West African entrepreneurs have built cohesive and effective multinational trading networks, in part through selling a simulated Africa to African Americans. These and other networks set up by the traders, along with their faith as devout Muslims, help them cope with the formidable state regulations and personal challenges they face in America. As Stoller demonstrates, the stories of these West African traders illustrate and illuminate ongoing debates about globalization, the informal economy, and the changing nature of American communities.

In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint. In a new preface, Rabinow considers the thirty-year life of this remarkable book and his own distinguished career.

《世界的苦难》是布尔迪厄晚年与其他22位合作者以细腻的情感和认真的观察及倾听，耗时三年访谈数百人所写就的田野调查著作。通过一个个以访谈形式出现的鲜活的生活史个案，展示了当代法国社会普通人日常生活中的种种困难与痛苦，并透过社会学的解释，揭示出痛苦背后深刻的社会和政治根源 ，以及人与社会的复杂关系。本书是布尔迪厄将学者责任与公民使命融为一体，集中探讨弱势群体艰难处境的最著名成果。在看似平淡的个人生活史的叙述中蕴含着震撼人心的苦难真相。

Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab women for thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights. In recent years Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular image of women victimized by Islam with the complex women she has known through her research in various communities in the Muslim world. Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women, and showing that the problem of gender inequality cannot be laid at the feet of religion alone. Poverty and authoritarianism--conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West--are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam--as well as a moving portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.

全球化与文化研究的经典著作 虽然目前有许多人著书谈论跨民族世界中的全球文化，然而没有人能像阿帕杜莱一样，既有全球性的视野，又熟谙人类学文献及其世界观。这部作品闪耀着智慧之光，对现代性与后现代性问题提出了深刻且令人满意的质问。 ——谢里·奥特纳（Sherry Ortner），加州大学伯克利分校 阿尔君·阿帕杜莱是研究新制度主义所谓跨国公共领域的先锋的社会理论家……他取材多方，信手拈来——从自传性质的到高度理论的，从板球到统计学，从印度泰米尔纳德到美国硅谷。 ——帕尔塔·查特吉（Partha Chatterjee），《民族主义思想与殖民地世界》作者 我希望能以人类学对文化维度的强调为全球化争论带来一个重要转向， 这一点在我作为区域研究学者所经受的训练和实践中得到进一步加强。 ——阿尔君·阿帕杜莱 全球化或许意味着托马斯·弗里德曼所描述的“平坦世界”，麦克卢汉所构建的“地球村”，或者马丁·阿尔杜劳的“无国界世界”，而对印度裔人类学家阿尔君·阿帕杜莱而言，与其说全球化是不可逆转的世界潮流，不如说它建基于想象之上，并日益呈现出流离与散裂的面貌。 《消散的现代性》为全球 化的文化研究提出了全新的框架，它指出想象在今日世界具有现实的社会力量：不仅为身份认同提供了新的资源，也为创造民族-国家的替代方案提供了新的能量。作者审视了当今全球化时代——其特色是大众迁移与电子媒体的孪生力量，并对大众消费模式、多元文化主义论争与族群暴力提出了新的见解。

book reviews: "The book is absolutely excellent . . . a unique fascinating account of the work of one of our leading anthropologists." —Colin M. Turnbull "Her book is all about people. . . . The publishers say of it that 'field work in its personal and objective dimension is placed under a kind of microscope. The book is a must for all field workers in the social sciences.' That claim does not seem to me excessive." —Edmund Leach, New York Review of Books "There are few books which are as informative of what it means to be a field-worker in social science as Hortense Powdermaker's Stranger and Friend. This book should be must reading both for scholars and students." —Seymour M. Lipset, Harvard University "Stranger and Friend is a passionate plea for anthropology as a human discipline as well as a science, as an all-engrossing life experience as well as a profession, and increasingly as a subject in the curriculum of graduate and undergraduate studies." —Margaret Mead, American Museum of Natural History "This is just the kind of book needed in anthropology today. It tells objectively, but in warm and human terms, how important research was done. It contributes to methodology and to the history of the science of anthropology." —Charles Wagley, Columbia University "This is an essential book for anyone interested in the problems of an anthropologist at work." —Cornelius Osgood, Peabody Museum of Natural History

◆一个充满惊喜与苦痛的世界，一个饱受苦难的文明古国的当代生活 ◆《我的凉山兄弟》作者刘绍华，以人类学眼光叙写惊心动魄的柬埔寨经验 ◆2005年台湾《中国时报》开卷好书奖十大好书 ··· 【内容简介】 在柬埔寨，风光秀丽的巴萨河畔，人们脸上常见神秘的微笑，但人口拐卖、赤 贫、文盲，以及内战的后遗症亦如影随形；当地人央求国际组织为其修缮寺庙，年轻的和尚却对外面的世界蠢蠢欲动；来到这里的外国人，既有国际组织志愿者，也有自我流放者和淘金者…… 1998年，刘绍华加入“台北海外和平服务团”，提着一只皮箱便来到柬埔寨，在那里生活了两年。之后，她以人类学家的视角、散文家的笔法写下自己的柬埔寨记忆：这是一个迅速变化的社会，走向全球化的同时仍有美丽的“非现代性”残存。这里是“天堂与地狱的写实，就如同吴哥窟的石雕故事一般，上演着人世历史中的喜怒哀乐、罪与罚、堕落与超脱”。 ··· 【学者推荐】 绍华的书因此开启了了解南亚文化的一扇门，让读者进一步透过她所看到的农村、妇女、历史、仪式、台商、军警，去观照中国大陆、中国台湾、越南等地区已碰过或正遭遇到的问题。 ——廖炳惠（台湾清华大学教授） · 刘绍华是一个惊叹号，她有散文家的一流文笔……以两年时间，体验当地生活和文化，为我们写下一本如此令人动容的书。 ——隐地（诗人） ··· 【编辑推荐】 ◆这是一部精彩的旅行文学，描绘了高脚屋、吴哥窟、祭典、金边的城市奇景、各种文化差异和旅行趣事；也是一部人类学民族志，记录了饥饿、疾病和罪恶，叙写了警察、妓女、乞讨者、台商、异乡人等各类群体的生存状况，呈现出一个现代性与传统相互冲突，历史罪恶与宗教力量并存的变化社会。 ◆作者刘绍华是一位视角独特的人类学家，她曾只身进入中国凉山，后写下医学民族志《我的凉山兄弟》，在国内外引起广泛讨论，获奖无数。

A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

《考古学与史前文明》是考古领域的重磅著作，剑桥大学考古学和人类学博士布赖恩·费根经典之作，已修订至第五版。本书将带你深入真实的考古世界，漫游250万年的人类历史。中国社会科学院考古研究所所长陈星灿力荐！ 本书内容分为两部分：第一部分完整而系统地阐述了考古学的方方面面——考古学的基本原则与目标、考古理论、科学的考古发掘流程、测定年代的技术、全球各地的田野发掘实践经验，以及管理和保护遗址的道德守则等；第二部分详细梳理了人类250万年的史前历史，从人类的起源、有关现代智人的争议、非洲古代人种的迁徙到农业的扩散，以及全球古代文明在公元后500年的发展。《考古学与史前文明》带领我们探索文献记载之外的漫长时间里的人类历史，再现古代生活，以及解读文化变迁。