如果说曾经有一段时间，民族志是一种自然现象，那么现在情形已经改变了。正是在这种已经消失的幻觉当中诞生了这本书的思想。这本书不是惋惜已经逝去的幻觉，不是为一个仅存在于人类学家想象当中的时代感到遗憾，也不是为人类学多次预言的灭亡勾勒它的年代史，而是要从中掌握人类学的认识论、伦理尤其是政治方面的教育。“田野调查”是以研究人员走进他的研究对象“土著人”生活当中，进行观察为基础，这是保证研究方法的科学性和掌握基础知识的惯例。在研究不同社会当中，这自然是一个非常珍贵的优势。“田野调查”这个词远没有体现出长期以来赋予它在认识论上的透明度、伦理方面的明显性和以及政治领域保持中立性的品质。希望人们能够重新认识田野工作所提出的问题，予以关注，从中汲取对人类学地位、对调查关系性质以及社会科学在居民区的态度产生的影响所取得的经验，这肯定是一件好事。 本书以在三个大洲（欧洲，美洲和非洲）的经验性调查为基础，深入到各个角落和领域，从威尼斯的街区到新喀里多尼亚村庄、从精神病诊所到道德稽查队、从机场外国人扣押区到巴黎排外政治会议，本书向研究人员提出了很多的问题：调查者的性别、偏见、情感、承担的任务等如何影响人们对所研究的社会或者说社会结构的理解？被调查者的期待、需求及所持的观念如何改变人类学和社会学的认知？ 本书分三部分，汇集了15篇论文。第一部分集中关注田野调查关系和形象塑造对所研究社会认识的影响；第二部分试图理解田野调查的局限性及其意义；第三部分讨论田野调查受其研究对象影响的方式。

Whether it’s childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity’s seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play’s many dimensions, she offers an insightful look at why play has become so ubiquitous across human cultures. Hamayon begins by zeroing in on Mongolia and Siberia, where communities host national holiday games similar to the Olympics. Within these events Hamayon explores the performance of ethical values and local identity, and then she draws her analysis into larger ideas examinations of the spectrum of play activities as they can exist in any culture. She explores facets of play such as learning, interaction, emotion, strategy, luck, and belief, and she emphasizes the crucial ambiguity between fiction and reality that is at the heart of play as a phenomenon. Revealing how consistent and coherent play is, she ultimately shows it as a unique modality of action that serves an invaluable role in the human experience.

A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video games that millions play. Only some, however, can enjoy this dream job, which can be precarious and alienating for many others. That is, the passion of a predominantly white-male labor force relies on material inequalities involving the sacrificial labor of their families, unacknowledged work of precarious testers, and thousands of racialized and gendered workers in the Global South. A Precarious Game explores the politics of doing what one loves. In the context of work, passion and love imply freedom, participation, and choice, but in fact they accelerate self-exploitation and can impose emotional toxicity on other workers by forcing them to work endless hours. Bulut argues that such ludic discourses in the game industry disguise the racialized and gendered inequalities on which a profitable transnational industry thrives. Within capitalism, work is not just an economic matter, and the political nature of employment and love can still be undemocratic even when based on mutual consent. As Bulut demonstrates, rather than considering work simply as a matter of economics based on trade-offs in the workplace, we should consider the question of work and love as one of democracy rooted in politics.

The gap between the virtual and the physical, and its effect on the ideas of personhood and relationships, is the most interesting aspect of Boellstorff's analysis... Boellstorff's portrayal of a virtual culture at the advent of its acceptance into mainstream life gives it lasting importance, and his methods will be a touchstone for research in the emerging field of virtual anthropology. -- David Robson Nature Boellstorff applies the methods and theories of his field to a virtual world accessible only through a computer screen...[He] spent two years participating in Second Life and reports back as the trained observer that he is. We read about a fascinating, and to many of us mystifying, world. How do people make actual money in this virtual society? (They do.) How do they make friends with other avatars? The reader unfamiliar with such sites learns a lot--not least, all sorts of cool jargon...Worth the hurdles its scholarly bent imposes. -- Michelle Press Scientific American If you thought a virtual world like Second Life was a smorgasbord of experimental gender swaps, nerd types engaging in kinky sex or entrepreneurs cashing in on real world money making possibilities, think again...Could Boellstorff be right that we're all virtual humans anyway, viewing the world as we do through the prism of culture? New Scientist Boellstorff's anthropologist's insight into advanced societies helps us to see them anew. Art Review Boellstorff's book is full of fascinating vignettes recounting the blossomings of friendships and romances in the virtual world, and musing fruitfully on questions of creative identity and novel problems of etiquette. -- Steven Poole The Guardian Where many of his colleagues insist on making a mystery of things that are straightforward (so to neglect mysteries real and pressing), Boellstorff is a likeable, generous, accessible voice... This book, once it gets down to it, does truly offer a detailed and deeply interesting investigation of Second Life. -- Grant McCracken Times Higher Education While it is geared toward anthropologists, the book will be of interest to a wide general audience, with the caveat that it may be helpful to keep a dictionary handy to decode some jargon... [Tom Boellstorff] provides us with a solid foundation for important discussions about he value of technology in our everyday lives. -- Peter Crabb Centre Daily Times This is a remarkable book. Tom Boellstorff has successfully achieved the extremely difficult task of writing a book that will appeal equally to the general reader and scholar alike. Coming Of Age In Second Life is well written, very well researched and whilst it does not get bogged down in academic detail and theory, it does provide reference to such theories that undergird the author's research. -- Rob Harle Metapsychology

We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is negotiated in myriad ways. Examining the politics and poetics of waiting, Ethnographies of Waiting offers fresh perspectives on waiting as the uncertain interplay between doubting and hoping, and asks "When is time worth the wait?" Waiting thus conceived is intrinsic to the ethnographic method at the heart of the anthropological enterprise. Featuring detailed ethnographies from Japan, Georgia, England, Ghana, Norway, Russia and the United States, a Foreword by Craig Jeffrey and an Afterword by Ghassan Hage, this is a vital contribution to the field of anthropology of time and essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology and philosophy.

In a time of intense uncertainty, social strife, and ecological upheaval, what does it take to envision the world as it yet may be? The field of anthropology, Anand Pandian argues, has resources essential for this critical and imaginative task. Anthropology is no stranger to injustice and exploitation. Still, its methods can reveal unseen dimensions of the world at hand and radical experience as the seed of a humanity yet to come. A Possible Anthropology is an ethnography of anthropologists at work: canonical figures like Bronislaw Malinowski and Claude Lévi-Strauss, ethnographic storytellers like Zora Neale Hurston and Ursula K. Le Guin, contemporary scholars like Jane Guyer and Michael Jackson, and artists and indigenous activists inspired by the field. In their company, Pandian explores the moral and political horizons of anthropological inquiry, the creative and transformative potential of an experimental practice.

Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba Mahmood's compelling exposition of these practices challenges this assumption by showing how the ethical and the political are indelibly linked within the context of such movements. Not only is this book a sensitive ethnography of a critical but largely ignored dimension of the Islamic revival, it is also an unflinching critique of the secular-liberal principles by which some people hold such movements to account. The book addresses three central questions: How do movements of moral reform help us rethink the normative liberal account of politics? How does the adherence of women to the patriarchal norms at the core of such movements parochialize key assumptions within feminist theory about freedom, agency, authority, and the human subject? How does a consideration of debates about embodied religious rituals among Islamists and their secular critics help us understand the conceptual relationship between bodily form and political imaginaries? Politics of Piety is essential reading for anyone interested in issues at the nexus of ethics and politics, embodiment and gender, and liberalism and postcolonialism.

阿尔茨海默病是什么？如果有一天家人突然不认识你了，你该如何应对，如何劝慰，如何照料？面对一场注定以“失败”告终的战斗，面对亲人终将失去理智、失去自我的结局，被现实击中的我们，该如何与孤独共存？ 本书讲述了一个关于彼此“照护”的动人故事。凯博文在妻子被诊断出患有早发性阿尔茨海默病后，作为一个丈夫同时也是医生，开始了对她的悉心照护。书中讲述了他在医学领域的人生历程以及他和妻子的点滴故事，从中我们能看到凯博文与妻子之间真挚笃厚的感情，能看到现代医学及医学教育对于“照护”的忽视，能看到“照护”如何为我们每个人的存在找寻到了意义。他以自己的毕生经历强调，“照护”才是医学的核心。 【作者简介】 凯博文是精神病学、人类学、全球卫生以及医学人文领域最著名的学者之一，也是美国国家科学院医学院院士和美国国家文理学院院士。他毕业于斯坦福大学和斯坦福医学院，而后在哈佛大学任教逾四十年，目前是哈佛医学院的精神病学与医学人类学教授，同时也是哈佛大学文理学院的人类学讲席教授。2008年至2016年，他曾担任哈佛亚洲中心主任。著有《疾痛的故事》《道德的重量》《苦痛与疾病的社会根源》等专著。 【编辑推荐】 ★这是一封用十年照护写下的动人情书，一本由精神科医生亲自践行的“科学照护指南”。 ★哈佛大学著名人类学家、医学人类学奠基人凯博文用亲身经历写给每个人的人生必修课——“我的整个职业生涯都在研究疾病和照护，但为了我所爱的人而成为一个真正家庭照护者的实践经验，却是一份难能可贵的礼物。” ★直击医学本质，直面医患矛盾，直达照护核心。 ★著名人类学家、美国加州大学洛杉矶分校中国研究中心主任阎云翔，北京大学哲学系教授吴飞，作序推荐；复旦大学人类学研究所教授潘天舒担当审校；清华大学社会学系教授、公共健康研究中心主任景军，中国科学院院士、北京大学第六医院院长陆林，上海市精神卫生中心院长徐一峰，《查无此人》作者、文学翻译于是，联合推荐。 【媒体评论】 《照护》可以为美国四千万家庭照护者带来指导和安慰。 ——《华盛顿邮报》 凯博文细腻地回忆了他的已故妻子与早发性阿尔茨海默病的故事。在这本回忆录中，他坦诚指出了社会对于为病人提供个性化照护的忽视。 ——《出版人周刊》 这本书让照护的治愈作用变得无与伦比！医疗与照护不是对立的，凯博文教授正努力阐述这一点。拥有一颗关怀的心是如此重要——它的意义甚至超越了医学。 ——《纽约日报》 【国外推荐】 《照护》这本书会让你感到非常震撼，但同时它又会教给你很多东西。在如何用一生来耕耘我们的人性方面，这本书既提出了伦理上的要求，也分享了许多给人以希望的宝贵经验。 ——保罗·法默，哈佛大学全球健康与社会医学系主任 这是一部真正出类拔萃而又美丽动人的著作，它将改变我们思考人生与社会的方式。 ——迈克尔·普鸣，哈佛大学中国史与人类学教授 打开这本书，然后做好被震撼与被启迪的准备。 ——金镛，世界银行前任行长 这是我读过的最感人的书之一，让人难以忘怀……凯博文提醒我们，究竟什么才是工作、生活及死亡中真正重要的东西。 ——霍华德·加德纳，世界著名教育心理学家 凯博文的这本书富于人性关怀，对于我们所有人来说都会是某种启迪。 ——李·古德曼，哥伦比亚大学医学院院长 非常感人……《照护》这本书见证了人们从爱的回忆中汲取养分的能力，即便那些回忆正从所爱之人那里渐渐消失。这是一部非常重要的书。 ——凯•雷德菲尔德•杰米森，《躁郁之心》作者 这是一个爱情故事，也是一篇道德论文，同时也批判了现代机构及关系中照护精神的缺失。 ——塔米娜·阿那姆，《优雅之骨》作者 这部感人至深的著作提出了一个叫人信服的论断，即照护不应被当作某种不幸的义务，而应被当作某种道德层面的实践。 ——安妮·法迪曼，作家 【国内推荐】 本书要义已远超个人经验，直达医疗本质。我们是谁，何以为人，医学理性与人性，病患的苦难，怜悯与希望，相助，有尊严的离世……凯博文作为丈夫同时又是医者的感悟由十年之久的躬身照护历程生发开来。每个人，无论是否是医疗从业人员，作为照护者或终将成为的被照护者，都需要补上这一课。 ——徐一峰，上海市精神卫生中心院长 优雅地变老和离去，是我们每个人最后的尊严。每个人在离开世界前能得到精心的照护，是我们现代社会和文明努力的方向。 ——陆林，中国科学院院士、北京大学第六医院院长 凯博文教授是我博士论文指导老师之一，他在近八十岁之际撰写此书的动力，是要探讨“照料之魂”。通观全书，魂之意涵，在于两点，一是形形色色的护理者对患者发自心底的精心照护，二是患者从各式各样的护理者得到的无比之爱。两者之并联是现代医学一直难以面对的重症病人的精神慰藉问题。 ——景军，清华大学社会学系教授 哈佛大师阿瑟•克莱曼一生著述很多，这本书或许是他的封笔之作，他的一生在医学心理学、社会学、人类学等方面有很高的理论建树，这本书却是晚年陪伴失智妻子的体验书写，由此构成他阅历的极致，生命理解的巅峰。从个体疾苦到人类疾苦，从亲人照护到社会照护，阿瑟•克莱曼的书开启了全新的生命之门。 ——王一方，北京大学医学人文学院教授 凯博文建立了科学和生老病死之间的感性纽带，提议把叙事纳入医学领域，强调了疾痛那无形的存在，也赞赏了中国式养生养老的传统。最基本的照护体验往往能带来最深刻的人性教养。包括阿尔兹海默症在内的各种重疾最终考验的是家庭关系，而不仅仅是医患关系。这本书也是一位学者在多年实践中的思想史，他告诉我们：从照护出发，可以最终抵达博大深远的人类文明核心。 ——于是，翻译、《查无此人》作者 这本书向读者展示了一名医生在照护患有阿尔茨海默病妻子时的心路历程，作者以医生和患者家属的双重身份，以独特的视角在书中探讨了对认知障碍和精神类疾病的照护伦理，一定程度上也为阿尔茨海默病患者及其家属提供了照护指导。 ——贾龙飞，宣武医院神经内科副主任医师

Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight and inform generations of readers. "This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life. . . . Bateson has come to this position during a career that carried him not only into anthropology, for which he was first trained, but into psychiatry, genetics, and communication theory. . . . He . . . examines the nature of the mind, seeing it not as a nebulous something, somehow lodged somewhere in the body of each man, but as a network of interactions relating the individual with his society and his species and with the universe at large."--D. W. Harding, "New York Review of Books" "[Bateson's] view of the world, of science, of culture, and of man is vast and challenging. His efforts at synthesis are tantalizingly and cryptically suggestive. . . .This is a book we should all read and ponder."--Roger Keesing, "American Anthropologist" Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) was the author of "Naven" and "Mind and Nature."

《灵长类视觉》并非一部研究“灵长类动物学”或“灵长类视觉”的著作，而是关于灵长类动物学话语如何被建构为一种秩序化“视觉”的批判之作。此书的抱负是非凡的，正如作者自己所说，“我想让这本书对灵长类学学者、科学史家、文化理论学家，对广义的左派，对反种族主义者、反殖民主义者和女性运动，对动物，并且对严肃故事的爱好者产生影响”，此书的叙述本身也是一种巨大的理论综合的产物，涉及文化生产理论、科学和技术的历史和社会研究理论以及女性主义和反种族主义理论的运动和理论。作为唐纳·哈拉维的代表作之一，它以文化研究的方法将批判的触角深入到了通常被现代科学话语视为禁脔的“生物学科学”及其历史之中，并深刻地推动了当代文化研究版图的改变。

Tongan barkcloth, made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree, still features lavishly in Polynesian ceremonies all over the world. Yet despite the attention paid to this textile by anthropologists and art historians alike, little is known about its history. Providing a unique insight into Polynesian material culture, this book explores barkcloth's rich cultural history, and argues that its manufacture, decoration and use are vehicles of creativity and female agency. Based on twelve years of extensive ethnographic and archival research, the book uncovers stories of ceremony, gender, the senses, religion and nationhood, from the 17th century up to the present-day. Placing the materiality of textiles at the heart of Tongan culture, Veys reveals not only how barkcloth was and continues to be made, but also how it defines what it means to be Tongan. Extending the study to explore the place of barkcloth in the European imagination, she examines international museum collections of Tongan barkcloth, from the UK and Italy to Switzerland and the USA, addressing the bias of the European `gaze' and challenging traditional gendered understandings of the cloth. A nuanced narrative of past and present barkcloth manufacture, designs and use, Unwrapping Tongan Barkcloth demonstrates the importance of the textile to both historical and contemporary Polynesian culture.

This is the first study to survey the field of the anthropology of aesthetics, which during the last few decades has emerged on the cross-roads between anthropology and non-Western art scholarship. While critically examining the available literature, thereby addressing such basic issues as the existence of aesthetic universals, the author elaborates on a central thesis which concerns the relationship between aesthetic preference and sociocultural ideals. Drawing on empirical data from several African cultures, he demonstrates that varying notions of beauty are inspired by varying sociocultural ideals, thus shedding light on the phenomenon of cultural relativism in aesthetic preference. Emphasizing unity within diversity, the systematic anthropological approach offered in this volume invites the reader to reconsider aesthetic preference from an empirical, cross-cultural, and contextual perspective.

Every year, leading European social anthropologists meet to debate a motion at the heart of current theoretical developments in their subject. Key Debates in Anthropology presents the first six of these debates, from 1988 to 1993. The debates address the disciplinary character of social anthropology; the concept of society; the concept of culture; the place of language in the formation of culture; how we view the past in relation to the present; and the cross-cultural applicability of aesthetics. Participants include: Anthony Cohen, Roy Ellen, Keith Hart, Roland Littlewood, David Lowenthal, Judith Okely, Joanna Overing, J. D. Y. Peel, Marilyn Strathern. With its unique debate format, Key Debates in Anthropology addresses issues that are currently at the top of the theoretical agenda--issues which register the pulse of contemporary thinking in social anthropology.</P>

Classic essays by one of the most original and stimulating anthropologists of his generation on what culture is, what role it plays in social life, and how it ought to be properly studied.

The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categories-this is magic, that is technology-has long since been exploded. What it is instead, however, is less clear. That it might be a kind of writing, putting things to paper, has now and then occurred to those engaged in producing it, consuming it, or both. But the examination of it as such has been impeded by several considerations, none of them very reasonable. One of these, especially weighty among the producers, has been simply that it is an unanthropological sort of thing to do. What a proper ethnographer ought properly to be doing is going out to places, coming back with information about how people live there, and making that information available to the professional community in practical form, not lounging about in libraries reflecting on literary questions. Excessive concern, which in practice usually means any concern at all, with how ethnographic texts are constructed seems like an unhealthy self-absorption-time wasting at best, hypochondriacal at worst. The advantage of shifting at least part of our attention from the fascinations of field work, which have held us so long in thrall, to those of writing is not only that this difficulty will become more clearly understood, but also that we shall learn to read with a more percipient eye. A hundred and fifteen years (if we date our profession, as conventionally, from Tylor) of asseverational prose and literary innocence is long enough.

This pathbreaking book brings together essays by leading anthropologists that cover an entire range of visual representation, from Balinese television to computer software manuals. Contributors discuss the anthropology of art, ritual; media and communication, the study of landscape, the history of anthropology, and art practice and production.

The field of anthropology goes under the magnifying glass in this fiery investigation of the seminal research on Yanomami Indians. In the 1960s and ’70s, a steady stream of anthropologists filed into the Amazon Basin to observe this "virgin" society untouched by modern life. Thirty years later, the events surrounding this infiltration have become a scandalous tale of academic ethics and infighting. The origins of violence and war and the accuracy of data gathering are hotly debated among the scholarly clan. Soon these disputes take on Heart of Darkness overtones as they descend into shadowy allegations of sexual and medical violation. Director José Padilha brilliantly employs two provocative strategies to raise unsettling questions about the boundaries of cultural encounters. He allows professors accused of heinous activities to defend themselves, and the Yanomami to represent their side of the story. As this riveting excavation deconstructs anthropology’s colonial legacy, it challenges our society’s myths of objectivity and the very notion of “the other.”

Thirty years ago Australian Aboriginal art was little more than a footnote to world art. Today, it is considered to be an important contemporary art movement, often promoted as being connected to a deep cultural past. Becoming Art provides a new analysis of the shifting cultural and social contexts that surround the production of Aboriginal art. Transcending the boundaries between anthropology and art history, the book draws on arguments from both disciplines to provide a unique interdisciplinary perspective that places the artists themselves at the centre of the argument. Western art history has traditionally regarded Aboriginal art as distanced in time and place. Becoming Art uses the recent history of Aboriginal art to challenge some of the presuppositions of western art discourse and western art worlds. It argues for a more cross-cultural perspective on world art history.

【内容简介】 著名的当代思想家、耶鲁大学教授詹姆斯•斯科特曾告诉我们国家的视角为什么是错的。现在，在这本简短易懂、极其个人化的新作中，他论证了无政府主义者的视角为什么重要。他用引人入胜、斗志昂扬，甚至幽默的方式，捍卫重视地方性知识、常识、个体创造力、自发性的无政府主义思维，令我们能够审视世间百态……小到学校、工厂、养老院、游乐场里的日常社会政治互动，大到民众抗议和革命。 【编辑推荐】 书中的无政府主义不是意识形态，也无关政治立场，而是一种批判性的思维模式，可以适用于日常生活中的各类现象，如红绿灯的设置、抄近道形成的小径、地名的设置、林场或种植园的管理、游乐园的设计、科学文献索引体系的意义、养老院与老人间的关系等。通过带入无政府主义者的非国家视角，斯科特讨论了这些现象中蕴含的悖论。例如福特的种植园反映了一些为追求效率而设定的规程反而造成了效率的缺失，危地马拉当地农民的果园看似杂乱无章的表面安排后面之下却又更科学的逻辑。总之，作为一位社会科学大家撰写的关于自发性的随笔集，这本小册子中汇集了对生活中小事的思考，有助于读者培养批判性思维和辩证思维。

《艺术、神话与祭祀》是考古学家张光直先生诸多学术著作中的一本，也是作者自己最为喜爱的一本。该书以他1981至1982年在哈佛大学为非专业本科生所开设的一门课程的讲稿为基础选编而成。在本书中，他以其独特的视角，重新审视夏商周三代相关的历史文献和考古材料，通过对神话传说和历史事件、沟通天地的祭祀过程及手段、古代中国青铜器及其装饰艺术（主要是动物主题装饰艺术）的意义、古代文字的产生及表现形式等问题进行深入的讨论，回答了文明或王朝是如何在古代中国兴起的问题。从艺术、神话与祭祀的角度，探讨了古代中国政治权威的诞生之路。