This book examines the impact of the emergent discipline of ethnography upon the artistic avant-garde in 1920s and 1930s Paris. Anthropology and ethnography provided new and striking ways of rethinking what art could be and the forms it could take. This book demonstrates this with reference to the sculptural work of Giacometti and Picasso in the early 1930s and the rise of the surrealist object. The reception by European artists of objects arriving from colonial territories in the first half of the twentieth century is generally understood through the artistic appropriation of the forms of African or Oceanic sculpture. This book reveals how anthropological approaches to this intriguing material began to affect the ways in which artists, theorists, critics and curators thought about three-dimensional objects and their changing status as 'art', 'artefacts' or 'ethnographic evidence'. This book analyses texts, photographs and art works that cross disciplinary boundaries, through case studies including the Dakar to Djibouti expedition of 1931-33, the Trocadero Ethnographic Museum, and the two art periodicals Documents and Minotaure. It brings out the significance of figures such as Michel Leiris, Marcel Mauss, Marcel Griaule and Georges-Henri Riviere, whose ideas, although little-known today, are of continuing significance and interest. This book is aimed art historians, museologists, curators and historians of anthropology, as well as all those with an interest in the interpretation and reception of non-western art. Through its interdisciplinary and contextual approach, it also provides an important corrective to histories of modern art and the European avant-garde.

Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the sense of vision in the analysis of material culture. Contributors argue that vision can only be understood in relation to the other senses. In this they present another challenge to the assumed western five-sense model, and show how our understanding of material culture in both historical and contemporary contexts might be reconfigured if we consider the role of smell, taste, touch and sound, as well as sight, in making meanings about objects.

本书是列维-斯特劳斯文集系列之一。本书比较南美和北美的神话，并探讨各变型之间的对称关系。列维·斯特劳斯特别注意衣饰在人与自然的关系上所伴演的角色。最後，他演证了南美和北美区域之神话整体所具有的封闭性质。 作者在创造性地坚持在神话研究中把逻辑数学工具运用于结构分析之余，还把西方文明的“科学知识”放到文化史和民族文化的背景中去考量。他表明，一方面，神话的“深层逻辑”包括着产生各民族社会自己的“原本话语”的规则，而这正是“科学知识”的“绝对优越性”所系，也正是神话逻辑结构分析及其方法的根据所在，任何“文化相对主义”在此都无置喙之地。在这个范围里，其他社会和民族那里产生和发展起来的知识模式都难望“科学知识”之项背。而另一方面，不能因此把“科学知识”和“科学思维”同科学以前的和其他民族的“知识类型”对立起来。恰恰相反，现在需要恢复当初为了知识进步而牺牲的极大丰富性，通过“倒退运动”回到曾力图回避的感觉世界，并找回曾被拒斥的“非理性思维形式”。

“Beauty and the Beast is an original work, surprising not only in its thesis but in its tone, pacing, and voice. It presents its case slowly and through digressions and returns, performing a way of theorizing through writing, training the reader to follow what’s going on as an ethnographer does—how everything matters, how we should just see where it all goes, and how we shouldn’t overdo it. Gripping, moving, and brilliant, Beauty and the Beast is fun to read and to think with. It punctures an apparatus, producing a great sigh of relief. It is a gift.”--Katie Stewart, University of Texas at Austin (Katie Stewart 20111017) “Against the background of the enormous exploitation and torture of bodies in the course of the war, Michael Taussig, in Beauty and the Beast, seeks to unearth and understand the strange links between the practice of plastic surgery as the ultimate disguise of hunted men and the astonishingly widespread use of plastic surgery for beautification. But he pushes further than that, seeking new understanding of the extraordinary forms and importance of beauty in humans.”—Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University (Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University ) “Taussig balances balletically above the salacious horror, his elegant commentary drawing on Baudelaire, Georges Bataille and Walter Benjamin. We can be sure that when Taussig is telling tales of the savage and exotic, he’s talking about us, here, now, and what our crazy out-of-control economic system is doing to the rest of the world. There’s no ‘rest of’ any more. That’s what anthropology is for: the art or science that shows fish the water. Taussig is renowned as one of its dizziest dialectical conjurors. Reflecting on Wall Street’s recent lack of ‘libido’—he asks: ‘Are there still people who think that money and sex are not the same?’—he provides delicious throwaways that can satisfy Darwinians and Foucauldians alike.” (Camilla Power Times Higher Education )

《跳出我天地》里，比利·艾略特的工人父亲坚持认为男孩子应该学拳击，而不是跳芭蕾；《光猪六壮士》里，下岗的工人们告别钢筋水泥，在聚光灯下跳起脱衣舞却收到了意外的喜剧效果..... 啤酒、烟草、男性气概的业余爱好、幽默但粗野的对话.....是电影给我们展示的英国工人掠影。 而来自普林斯顿大学社会学系的保罗·威利斯教授采用田野调查的方法，通过展现一个工业城镇里12个出身工人阶级家庭的男孩从毕业前18个月到工作后半年这段时期内的学习生活经历，向我们解释了英国工人阶级的子弟为何选择继承父业——这就是《学做工》一书所呈现给我们的精彩内容。 2013年3月，《学做工》这本20世纪社会学、人类学和教育学的经典著作，终于由译林出版社推出中文版，威利斯先生也将首次和中国的读者见面。 本书是20世纪社会学、人类学和教育学的经典著作之一。第一部分是生动通俗的民族志的深度描写，第二部分是精辟透彻的理论分析，向我们解释了工人积极子弟之所以继承父业，不 仅是社会结构性因素再生产的结果，更是他们对学校主流文化做出反叛的一种反讽新文化生产的结果。中文本还收录了作者于2000年所做的访谈，以及专门为中国读者写的序言，有助于读者从一个比较历史的角度理解全球化背景下中国的青少年教育和失业问题。

《写文化:民族志的诗学与政治学》已成为当代人类学反思的经典理论著作，具有里程碑式的意义。在出版后的20年里，它成为国际人类学界引用得最多的一《写文化:民族志的诗学与政治学》，并且在人文科学及其他社会科学领域产生了广泛的影响。

近几年，许多人类学家开始强调写作的重要性。而众所周知，民族志写作的起点和基础是研究者的田野笔记。那么，如何做田野笔记呢？ 为此，三位具有丰富田野实践和教学经验的人类学家，给出了一系列实用而又指导性的建议。本书通过大量的正在撰写的、“未完成的”田野笔记实例，考察了田野研究者如何将亲身经历和观察写成田野笔记的过程，讨论如何运用田野笔记来讲述民族志故事的方法，以及帮助研究者基于田野笔记撰写民族志的关键步骤。 本书致力于提出一套实用的田野笔记写作指导，以帮助社会学、人类学、民俗学、口述历史学、教育学等学科的本科生和研究生，因为田野研究和人类学方法在以上学科中都占有十分突出的地位；另一方面，对于政治学、商业管理、传播、社会福利及公共卫生等学科，田野研究和民族志也可以作为次一级的辅助研究方法。 《如何做田野笔记》系美国当代知名人类学家罗伯特·埃默森等撰写的一部有关人类学研究专著。田野调查是当代文化人类学研究的重要环节，而其中的关键之处，就是如何作田野笔记。此书结集的数位人类学家的经验谈，对此项工作作了详尽、清晰的阐述，也是该学科基础方法的指导之作。

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction. By investigating one of the world's most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.

A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. In both cases, it is friction that produces movement, action, effect. Challenging the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a 'clash' of cultures, anthropologist Anna Tsing here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world. She focuses on one particular 'zone of awkward engagement' - the rainforests of Indonesia - where in the 1980's and the 1990's capitalist interests increasingly reshaped the landscape not so much through corporate design as through awkward chains of legal and illegal entrepreneurs that wrested the land from previous claimants, creating resources for distant markets.In response, environmental movements arose to defend the rainforests and the communities of people who live in them. Not confined to a village, a province, or a nation, the social drama of the Indonesian rainforest includes local and national environmentalists, international science, North American investors, advocates for Brazilian rubber tappers, UN funding agencies, mountaineers, village elders, and urban students, among others - all combining in unpredictable, messy misunderstandings, but misunderstandings that sometimes work out. Providing a portfolio of methods to study global interconnections, Tsing shows how curious and creative cultural differences are in the grip of worldly encounter, and how much is overlooked in contemporary theories of the global.

This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts elaborated by Austin and others. He argues that language should he viewed not only as a means of communication but also as a medium of power through which individuals pursue their own interests and display their practical competence. Drawing on the concepts that are part of his distinctive theoretical approach. Bourdieu maintains that linguistic utterances or expressions can be understood as the product of the relation between a linguistic market" and it "linguistic habitus." When individuals use language in particular ways, they deploy their accumulated linguistic resources and implicitly adapt their words to the demands of the social held or market that is their audience. Hence every linguistic interaction, however personal or insignificant it may seem, hears the traces of the social structure that it both expresses and helps to reproduce. Bourdieu's account sheds fresh light on the ways in which linguistic usage varies according to considerations such as class and gender. It also opens up a new approach to the ways in which language is used in the domain of politics. For politics is, among other things, the arena in which words are deeds and the symbolic character of power is at stake. This volume, by one of the leading social thinkers in the world today, represents a major contribution to the study of language and power. It will be of interest to students throughout the social sciences and humanities, especially in sociology, politics, anthropology, linguistics, and literature.

This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. It also introduced a powerful theoretical attitude towards the progress of the ethnographer's enquiries, suggesting that a full knowledge of witchcraft involves being 'caught up' in it oneself. In the Bocage, being bewitched is to be 'caught' in a sequence of misfortunes. According to those who are bewitched, the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood: the witch, who can cast a spell with a word, a touch or a look, and whose 'power' comes from a book of spells inherited from an ancestor. Only a professional magician, an 'unwitcher', has any chance of breaking the succession of misfortunes which befall those who have been bewitched. He undertakes a battle of magic with the suspected witch, a battle which is eventually fatal.

《中国女工：新兴打工者主体的形成》是一部关于打工者主体的权力、欲望与抗争的民族志研究专著，也是一部关于打工妹的政治学，作者为读者呈现出了工厂中支配与抗争之间的复杂关系，打工妹生命中所经历的梦魇、尖叫与身体痛楚，正是她们在国家、资本与文化的巨大张力中进行抗争的真实形态。

In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition. He links traditional narratives of the devil-pact, in which the soul is bartered for illusory or transitory power, with the way in which production in capitalist economies causes workers to become alienated from the commodities they produce. A new chapter for this anniversary edition features a discussion of Walter Benjamin and Georges Bataille that extends Taussig's ideas about the devil-pact metaphor.

作者通过东南亚山地的历史指出，国家总是试图将山地的居民集中到平地，从事水稻种植，而山民则通过各种方式来逃避国家的控制。传统的观点将山地的居民看做是落后和野蛮的，国家政权延伸到这些地区被看做是推动了这些地方的进步。但是斯科特通过对这个地区历史的研究发现，看起来似乎是落后的山地少数民族可能并不落后，他们居住在山上，选择了不同于谷地的生活和生产方式是因为他们希望借此逃避国家的统治。 作者指出，他讨论的对手是法国学者布罗代尔，因为在布罗代尔那里，文明与国家经常是被混在一起的，而作者则强调，在国家统治范围之外，有着同样的文明。 作者詹姆士•斯科特是美国人类学界研究农民问题的领军人物，其《农民的道义经济》一书出版以后，在学界引起了广泛的反响；其《弱者的武器》和《国家的视角》都对学术研究和政策制定产生了巨大的影响。作者现在是耶鲁大学的政治学和人类学斯特林讲座教授，美国艺术与科学院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences）院士，其主持的“农业研究”是一个跨国的高水平博士后研修项目，至今已经延续了近20年。 【推荐】 这部著作可能是迄今为止詹姆士·斯科特最重要的著作。它具有深入的洞察力、创造性和同情心。很少有学者具有更敏锐的能力可以洞察那些没有历史、居于在完全不同的地点，并采用完全不同的实践和形式的人群的能动性。事实上，这已经使他非常接近于无政府主义的理想，也就是人们不仅可以逃避国家 ，而且可以避免国家形式本身。 —杜赞奇 (Prasenjit Duara) 这是一个出色的研究，富有人文和文化的洞察力，这部著作将改变读者对人类历史，以及对他们自身的思考方式。这是我所阅读过的社会历史和政治理论中最具吸引力和激动人心的著作。 —罗伯特·郝夫纳 (Robert Hefner)

Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and now available in paperback for the first time, this highly original book draws on insights from semiotics and from psychoanalytic, feminist, and marxist criticism. Addressing the relations of language to experience, the body to scale, and narratives to objects, Susan Stewart looks at the "miniature" as a metaphor for interiority and at the "gigantic" as an exaggeration of aspects of the exterior. In the final part of her essay Stewart examines the ways in which the "souvenir" and the "collection" are objects mediating experience in time and space.

主流媒介与电影理论建立在欧洲和美国的媒介技术运作方式之上。在这本开创性的著作中，布莱恩·拉金提供了尼日利亚媒介的历史和民族志，探寻了以尼日利亚而非哪个欧洲国家或美国为起点时，媒介理论所呈现出的样貌。拉金聚焦于北尼日利亚的穆斯林城市卡诺，记述了技术的物质特性及其代表的文化理想是如何注入尼日利亚都市的日常实践中的。

《媒介世界：人类学的新领域》人类学家研究媒介及相关现象的一本文集。全书一共收录了20个研究文本，涉及印度尼西亚、埃及、北美、中国、拉美、西亚、玻利维亚、尼日利亚、赞比亚、泰国、巴厘岛等国家和地区，对媒介行为主义、表征、国家主义、技术的社会安排、文化认同、公共领域等问题进行了谈论。被认为是对早期的传播人类学（或视觉人类学）范式的批判性修正。三个编者Faye D. Ginsburg是纽约大学媒介、文化与历史研究中心主任、人类学教授。Lila Abu-Lughod是哥伦比亚大学人类学教授，目前主要从事妇女研究。Brian Larkin是哥伦比亚大学Barnard学院助理教授。

本书收录文章12篇，均为西方著名人类学家有关艺术人类学前沿问题的最新研究。首先，以人类学民族志研究为基础，重新描述非西方艺术实践在全球化和现代性语境下的生产、流通，及其文化价值被西方艺术“盗用”的历史，其次，将研究的目光转向西方艺术界本身，聚焦于20世纪西方艺术从现代主义到后现代主义的转向，反思艺术和艺术批评的传统范式，对当代艺术界机制，创作状况和各种批判意识进行民族志探索。

《制造现代主义:毕加索与二十世纪艺术市场的创建》展现了20世纪卓越的艺术家毕加索在艺术界如何提高声誉，又如何通过精心安排其作品的商业展览来改造艺术界的过程。在积极融入艺术市场方面毕加索为其他艺术家作出了表率，作者菲茨杰拉德通过对毕加索的商业策略的分析表明现代艺术市场是艺术界前进的推动力，在这个艺术世界，评论家、收藏家、博物馆馆长们同艺术家和艺术经销商一道对艺术进行定位。

吉尔兹是美国著名文化人类学家，他的论文集《地方性知识》在西方文化学理论界有着极大的影响，堪称经典和理论楷模，他同时被称为阐释人类学大师和开山者，划时代的理论大师。《地方性知识》的命题旨在认知的具体性、穿透性和阐释性，作为吉尔兹成熟期的作品，这本论文集大致集结了吉尔兹三个方面的命题的文章，第一是取其符号性强、文化认知意蕴较为深厚的命题，第二是取赋深度层次化，以便展示阐释学分析、论辩之长的命题，第三则