This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art. Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times. Enhances readers’ appreciation of the aesthetics of art and of the important role it plays in human society.

本书诚实但又不失风趣地记录了作为人类学家的作者在非洲喀麦隆多瓦悠人村落两次进行田野工作的经历，将人类学家如何克服乏味、灾难、生病与敌意的真实田野生活拍案叫绝地呈现在读者面前。 不同于一般的人类学研究报告，这是一部令人捧腹不止的人类学笔记，透过幽默的笔调，读者看到了人类学者如何与研究对象进行互动，在互动中如何调整他的学术成见，以及田野工作上的琐事如何影响后来研究结果、研究的盲点与反思。因此不管是严肃的读者、无聊地只想打发时间或者是向往非洲原始部落的异国情调而蠢蠢欲动的旅人，巴利这本书绝对是一个有趣的选择。

这是由法国学者撰写的人类学史首次译成中文。法国当代著名社会人类学家弗洛朗斯·韦伯教授，以法国的视角追溯和反思了全世界范围内人类学的古典根源与发展历程。在她看来，传统意义上的欧洲人类学家被划分成“三个贵族部落”和“两个被支配的部落”。 研究美洲、大洋洲和非洲的人类学家一度是社会人类学中的王者，他们研究的社会是“原始的”“隔绝的”与“环节的”，代表了人类逝去的天堂。而专攻于亚洲和欧洲的人类学家则受到双重的支配：一方面，虽然他们研究拥有文字文明的社会，但这些社会多被视为欧洲殖民主义下的代表；另一方面，他们还要受到其他现代人文与社会科学的支配。 面对学科的危机与困境，擅长研究小群体的现代人类学，应当如何去调查和分析复杂社会？又如何去处理当代世界新兴的现象与问题？ 这本书面向以人类学为业的读者，一部好的学科史作品描画来路，是为了探寻出路；同时面向学科之外的大众读者，通过对相互、反思、自主与普遍原则的论述，在专家与大众之间建起了沟通的桥梁。

A controversial new orientation that resonates with wider developments in philosophy and social theory, the ontological turn and its implications for ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological analysis are the subject of vigorous debates. Drawing together these ongoing debates, this book provides the first anthropological exposition of this topic.

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human—and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the world’s most complex ecosystems. Whether or not we recognize it, our anthropological tools hinge on those capacities that make us distinctly human. However, when we turn our ethnographic attention to how we relate to other kinds of beings, these tools (which have the effect of divorcing us from the rest of the world) break down. How Forests Think seizes on this breakdown as an opportunity. Avoiding reductionistic solutions, and without losing sight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral webs we humans spin, this book skillfully fashions new kinds of conceptual tools from the strange and unexpected properties of the living world itself. In this groundbreaking work, Kohn takes anthropology in a new and exciting direction–one that offers a more capacious way to think about the world we share with other kinds of beings.

Crumpled Paper Boat is a book of experimental ventures in ethnographic writing, an exploration of the possibilities of a literary anthropology. These original essays from notable writers in the field blur the boundaries between ethnography and genres such as poetry, fiction, memoir, and cinema. They address topics as diverse as ritual expression in Cuba and madness in a Moroccan city, the HIV epidemic in South Africa and roadkill in suburban America. Essays alternate with methodological reflections on fundamental problems of writerly heritage, craft, and responsibility in anthropology. Crumpled Paper Boat engages writing as a creative process of encounter, a way of making and unmaking worlds, and a material practice no less participatory and dynamic than fieldwork itself. These talented writers show how inventive, appealing, and intellectually adventurous prose can allow us to enter more profoundly into the lives and worlds of others, breaking with conventional notions of representation and subjectivity. They argue that such experimentation is essential to anthropology’s role in the contemporary world, and one of our most powerful means of engaging it.

重慶大廈位於香港其中一個最繁忙的商旅區市中心——尖沙咀，匯聚來自五湖四海的各色人群，南亞、非洲、印度，商人、避難者、臨時工，還有囊中羞澀的各國背包客。一個擁有多元文化的世界性聚居地，卻是一個會令香港人感到不屑或恐懼的地方。本地人敬而遠之，麥高登教授作為一名旅居於香港的外籍人士，卻身體力行深入這少數族裔的人群，了解他們的生活，以至在這個物質城市的生存方式。揭露許多外界無從得知的，重慶大廈的秘密。

1985年美国社会学界最有权威性的赖特·米尔斯（C.Wright Mill）奖年度作品 =========================================================== 二十年前，泽利泽的著作在社会学、历史学和经济学的交叉点开辟了一个新的研究领域。在美国，“泽利泽视角”（Zelizerian perspective）在很大程度上促进了经济社会学的复兴。泽利泽的著作深深地鼓舞了新一代学者，他们通过研究那些之前不被认为是“严肃的”经济现象，重新定义了经济社会学领域的界限。除了公司、网络和市场之外，研究重点转向家庭生产、日常货币交易、身体用品、护理工作和艺术等方面。 如今，泽利泽的影响力越出了美国。2005年在法国，她的作品由皮埃尔·布迪厄收入到Le Seuil系列中出版，受到人类学家、社会学家、历史学家、经济学家的欢迎。同样地，在阿根廷，2001年经济危机之后出现了一种研究日常货币交易的显著趋势。2010年，泽利泽的作品被翻译成西班牙语……总的来说，这些作品引发了对经济生活中的价值和评价问题的重新讨论，给大西洋两岸智识生活带来了持久影响。 ——《思想生活》（ La Vie des Idées） =============================================================== 本书关注的是19世纪70年代到20世纪30年代美国社会关于儿童的社会价值观念的转变过程，即经济上无用而情感上无价的孩子的出现过程。通过透视儿童问题的巧妙视角，作者细腻探讨了那个时期人们对儿童死亡的态度的改变、童工立法的斗争、儿童工作的分化过程、儿童保险的推行、儿童意外死亡的赔偿以及儿童的领养与买卖等。它们共同指向一个深刻的理论话题，这就是：孩子的社会文化属性，他们在道义上的“无价性”如何在市场机制的重重包围中穿越而出，形成一个非常规的市场，由非经济的标准来规则？从而最终指向一个更为深切的理论关怀：社会如何“大于”市场？

一本来自人类学、社会学、政治经济学、营养学等领域的儿童饮食调查报告 关注中国独生子女群体的食品消费、全球化经济影响下的儿童食品变迁 ********************************************************************************** 本书的形成源于哈佛大学人类学系资深教授华琛(James L. Watson)在费正清中国研究中心发起的“中国社会饮食消费格局”研究项目。九名作者中包括华琛本人，华琛教授的老同事，六人是华琛先生的弟子，因而论文相互呼应的程度非同寻常，在文集类书籍中实属难得。 全书围绕五个议题铺开而论：一是改革开放后中国人的饮食营养，二是儿童食品产业在中国的兴起，三是国家科学育儿话语，四是全球消费文化对中国家庭生活的渗透，五是饮食变迁伴随的社会认同和价值观变迁。 “小皇帝”一词向来被联想到被娇生惯养的独生子女，但所有作者对此都采取了慎重对待的态度，没有简单粗暴地认定独子女必然会有这样或那样的心理问题或某些固化偏执的行为习惯。作者们将更具有学术价值的讨论集中在一连串的具体问题上。例如，郭于华关心的食品和饮食习惯所代表的代际差异问题与景军讨论的科学话语、宗教信念、电视广告在儿童食品消费领域的博弈问题都分析了儿童、家长、老人三代人的代际关系。 ******************************************************************************************* 在中国独生子女家庭这个富有争议的议题研究上，景军主编的论文集向前推进了重要的一步。全书没有任何薄弱章节。正如华琛教授总结的那样，这本书的独一无二之处在于，它率先观察到了在对儿童的社会态度上的深刻历史转变。 ——著名国际学术期刊《太平洋事务》 本书呈现了一种对文化和饮食行为变迁的丰富描述，指出了研究的多样性以及中国健康研究的未来。 ——美国人类学会《营养人类学》期刊

基因门诊的田野调查 基因检测医师团队的深度访谈 技术的不确定性带来的医患互动 一部重新看待“正常”与“未来”的民族志 ==================================== 新生儿筛查，指的是在婴儿出生24小时之后到6天内所做的针对一些遗传性疾病等的筛查，以提供预防性的医学措施。本书通过在基因门诊的田野调查，在对75个家庭共计193次到诊所的访问和咨询进行观察，以及对诊所基因检测医师团队深度访谈的基础上，对于新生儿筛查技术在美国的推行历史和这项技术在实践中引发的可预期及不可预期后果进行了生动详尽的记录和分析。 作者向我们展示了技术的“不确定性”如何使得病患和医生进行协商和互动，又是如何影响人们对于“正常”以及未来的理解和期待。这本书是医学、公共卫生和公共政策学者的理想之选，也为普通读者提供了看待医学技术、主流叙事和政策的新视角。 作者提醒我们，对于技术的研究不能忽视具体的社会情境，不同收入水平、不同阶级的家庭并不是都能享有平等的医疗资源、负担起长期治疗所需要的营养品和药物费用。在为“拯救婴儿”的技术欢呼时，不应该忽视美国社会中目前存在的制度和资源不平等等问题，也不该忽略一项“科学”的技术的推广背后的组织和制度力量和市场利益。 =================================== 专家推荐： 这本对新生儿筛查的社会现实进行的复杂而严峻的作品，阐明了政策、技术、临床医生、医疗机构和医疗宣传之间的复杂关系，以及它们对患者和从业者非常强大的影响。我们已经非常清楚，技术进步在承诺解决旧问题的同时，也会产生新 的问题。《拯救婴儿》应该是任何认真关注21世纪卫生政策和人类状况的人感兴趣的作品。 ——查尔斯·罗森伯格，哈佛大学科学与医学史教授和社会科学的Ernest E. Monrad教授 新生儿遗传病筛查是公共卫生事业的一项胜利，与疫苗接种和卫生设施齐名。但是，由于每年有数百万婴儿接受筛查，人们可能会忽视这样一个事实：每个家庭的情况都是独特的，他们对筛查计划的看法-——它的好处、它的焦虑、它难以发音的疾病名称——都会有所不同。蒂默曼斯和布赫宾德以敏锐的洞察力和同情心捕捉到了这些个人故事。他们所描述的临床情景，都是真实的，引人入胜，揭示了家属和医生的态度和反应，出乎意料又在情理之中。 ——韦恩·格罗迪，加州大学洛杉矶分校医学院医学博士

In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to 'dwell', and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before. The book revolutionises the way we think about what is 'biological' and 'cultural' in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings - at once organisms and persons - to inhabit an environment. Reissued with a brand new preface, The Perception of the Environment is essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers.

Tijuana is the largest of Mexico’s northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States’ dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest international ports of entry in the world. In Passing, Rihan Yeh probes the border’s role in shaping Mexican senses of self and collectivity. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Yeh examines a range of ethnographic evidence: public demonstrations, internet forums, popular music, dinner table discussions, police encounters, workplace banter, intensely personal interviews, and more. Through these everyday exchanges, she shows how the promise of passage and the threat of prohibition shape Tijuana’s communal sense of “we” and throw into relief long-standing divisions of class and citizenship in Mexico. Out of the nitty-gritty of quotidian talk and interaction in Tijuana, Yeh captures the dynamics of desire and denial that permeate public spheres in our age of transnational crossings and fortified borders. Original and accessible, Passing is a timely work in light of current fierce debates over immigration, Latin American citizenship, and the US-Mexico border.

This text offers an analysis of one patient's experience of agoraphobia. In this collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a linguist, the authors propose a view of agoraphobia as a communicative disorder. In a marriage of psychology and linguistics, the book argues that for all its frustrations as an instrument, language is potent, the primary medium for symbolizing constructions of reality.

A groundbreaking vision of anthropology as the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.” Bold, unexpected, and profound, Cannibal Metaphysics is one of the chief works marking anthropology’s current return to the theoretical center stage.

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts," and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science.

Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details of social life, attempting to establish proportionality between them. Strathern gives equal weight to two areas of contemporary debate: The difficulties inherent in anthropologically representing complex societies, and the future of cross-cultural comparison in a field where 'too much' seems known. The ethnographic focus of this book emphasizes the context through which Melanesianists have managed the complexity of their own accounts, while at the same time unfolding a commentary on perception and the mixing of indigenous forms. Revealing unexpected replications in modes of thought and in the presentation of ambiguous images, Strathern has fashioned a unique contribution to the anthropological corpus. This book was originally published under the sponsorship of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.

In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness - and with equal good humor - the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. This makes "The Gender of the Gift" one of the most sustained critiques of cross-cultural comparison that anthropology has seen, and one of its most spirited vindications.

The concept of relation holds a privileged place in how anthropologists think and write about the social and cultural lives they study. In Relations, eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of this key concept and its usage and significance in the English-speaking world. Exploring relation's changing articulations and meanings over the past three centuries, Strathern shows how the historical idiosyncrasy of using an epistemological term for kinspersons (“relatives”) was bound up with evolving ideas about knowledge-making and kin-making. She draws on philosophical debates about relation—such as Leibniz's reaction to Locke—and what became its definitive place in anthropological exposition, elucidating the underlying assumptions and conventions of its use. She also calls for scholars in anthropology and beyond to take up the limitations of Western relational thinking, especially against the background of present ecological crises and interest in multispecies relations. In weaving together analyses of kin-making and knowledge-making, Strathern opens up new ways of thinking about the contours of epistemic and relational possibilities while questioning the limits and potential of ethnographic methods.

In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss of home affecting many Japanese, not only in the literal sense but also in the figurative sense of not belonging. Until the collapse of Japan's economic bubble in 1991, lifelong employment and a secure income were within reach of most Japanese men, enabling them to maintain their families in a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. Now, as fewer and fewer people are able to find full-time work, hope turns to hopelessness and security gives way to a pervasive unease. Yet some Japanese are getting by, partly by reconceiving notions of home, family, and togetherness.