《社会变迁与警察文化的嬗变/世界警学名著译丛》由贝珊·洛夫特斯著，本书旨在记录和了解两个层面的警务变革对警察职业价值体系和实践的影响：首先是国家社会、经济和政治变革，其次是地方警察，即北郡警方的变革。近年来，高级警察开始一个自上而下的改革计划，旨在改善警察机构内部人员的工作条件，给公众提供公平有效的服务。北郡警方的实例对检验先前的警察文化研究能否适用于改革后的环境，提供了一个宝贵的参考。本书后面几章的实证研究源于对一线警察进行的大量实地调查，在此意义上，仍然遵循经典民族志研究所采用的传统研究方法。雷纳(2000b)近来呼吁：为了揭示不为人知的日常警务活动，警察研究应该回到过去的民族志研究方法。这场对两个差异较大地区的警务活动所进行的长达600多小时的直接观察也正是对此呼吁的响应。本书重点讲述迄今为止被忽视的警察文化的各种特征，考察了警察组织内外的日益多元化对传统关系的影响，盛行的管理办法对警察工作思路和方式的影响以及晚期现代警察文化呈现的形式。通过观察、记录和了解警察工作价值观、信仰和看法，本书努力对警察文化进行与时俱进的新解读，扩大我们对警务实质的理解。

CONTENTS Preface 1 The Animal with the Weirdest Sex Life 2 The Battle of the Sexes 3 Why Don't Men Breast-feed Their Babies? The Non-Evolution of Male Lactation 4 Wrong Time for Love: The Evolution of Recreational Sex 5 What Are Men Good For? The Evolution of Men's Roles 6 Making More by Making Less: The Evolution of Female Menopause 7 Truth in Advertising: The Evolution of Body Signals

编辑推荐：本书是《中国社会科学博士论文库》丛书之一。本书是熔铸民俗学近150年的思想资料而撰写的一部理论民俗学专著。作者首先以“民”和“俗”为焦点评述了民俗学基本理论的历史发展逻辑，揭示了民俗学所而临的理论难题；

本书通过对文化人类学若干理论问题的系统阐述,探讨了文化、社会和个人的相互关系。

抗日战争期间，北方几所大学旅迁昆明后，“魁阁”这座曾被人们用来供奉魁星的古楼，便成为费孝通引领下的一小批学者的工作场所。在“魁阁”，一小批优秀的社会学和人类学研究者在一个艰苦的年代(抗日战争期间)中创造出了杰出的社会科学研究成果，这些成果后来作为人文区位学(社区)研究的典范，得到国内外同仁的广泛认同。从这个意义上讲，　“魁阁”也许又标志着中国社会学和人类学的某一个可以被称为“时代”的东西。 　　在“魁阁时代”过去了半个多世纪以后，这本混合了各种记忆的书籍对中国社会学和人类学的以往成就进行了继承与反思，对前辈学人在艰苦年代中表现出的学术热情和坚忍不拔的精神给予了纪念。

Anthropology has two main tasks: to understand what it is to be human and to examine how humanity is manifested differently in the diversity of culture. These tasks have gained new impetus from the extraordinary rise of the digital. This book brings together several key anthropologists working with digital culture to demonstrate just how productive an anthropological approach to the digital has already become. Through a range of case studies from Facebook to Second Life to Google Earth, Digital Anthropology explores how human and digital can be defined in relation to one another, from avatars and disability; cultural differences in how we use social networking sites or practise religion; the practical consequences of the digital for politics, museums, design, space and development to new online world and gaming communities. The book also explores the moral universe of the digital, from new anxieties to open-source ideals. Digital Anthropology reveals how only the intense scrutiny of ethnography can overturn assumptions about the impact of digital culture and reveal its profound consequences for everyday life. Combining the clarity of a textbook with an engaging style which conveys a passion for these new frontiers of enquiry, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of anthropology, media studies, communication studies, cultural studies and sociology.

以一个村落为切入点，在大量田野调查和大量使用民间族谱、文集、碑刻、传说等资料的基础上，探讨明清时期乡村社会历史变迁的动力和机制，试图以“总体史”的形象，展示在地域历史发展脉络下粤东地区韩江上游一个乡村聚落从明中叶到清中叶四百年间从“贼巢”到“邹鲁乡”的社会变迁与建构过程，揭示国家、地方精英与乡村社会形成和变迁的互动关系，以加深对中国传统乡村社会形成和发展的认识和理解，重新思考客家社会文化的形成与变迁的具体过程。

《人类社会的根基:人类学的重构》包括：保留之保留之物、赠与之物、出售之物与传家宝、家庭或亲属关系不是社会的基础、男人和女人并非孩子产生的充分条件、人类性行为基本上是非社会的、一个个体如何成为社会主体、什么是社会、社会人类学不再紧系于其诞生的西方、为参观者并献艺术与知识的乐趣等内容。

「田野工作」是社會科學重要的研究方法，然而田野到底是什麼？本書是11位青年人類學家和社會學家對田野經驗的紀錄，也是臺灣第一本書寫「臺灣人」田野經驗的合集。揭露知識生產的後臺，一窺研究者如何蒐集資料、獲致研究論點、寫成學術論文。研究地點從臺灣、東南亞到大洋洲，研究課題豐富多元，從法律與地方制度等到舞蹈與身體經驗，欲從事田野調查者可參考閱讀以做準備。（巨流編輯室）

世界闻名的《我知道什么？》丛书，是法国大学出版社1941年开始编纂出版的一套普及性百科知识丛书。半个多世纪以来，随着科学知识的不断发展，该丛书选题不断扩大，内容不断更新，已涉及社会科学和自然科学的各个领域及人类生活的各个方面。由于丛书作者都是有关方面的著名专家、学者，故每《民族学/我知道什么》都写得深入浅出，融知识性和趣味性于一体。至今，这套丛书已印行3000余种，在世界上产生很大影响，被译成40多种文字出版。 “我知道什么？”原是16世纪法国哲人蒙田的一句话，它既说明了知识的永无止境，也反映了文艺复兴时期那一代人渴求知识的愿望。1941年，法兰西民族正处于危急时期。法国大学出版社以蒙田这句话为丛书名称出版这套书，除了满足当时在战争造成的特殊形势下大学教学与学生读书的需要外，无疑具有普及知识，激发人们的读书热情，振兴法兰西民族的意义。今天，我国正处在向现代化迈进的新时期，全国人民正在为把我国建设成繁荣富强的社会主义国家而努力奋斗，我们相信，有选择地陆续翻译出版这套丛书，对于我们来说也会起它应有的作用。 这套丛书的翻译出版得到法国大学出版社和法国驻华使馆的帮助，我们对此表示真诚的谢意。由于原作为数众多，且时间仓促，所选所译均难免不妥之处，个别著作持论偏颇，尚希读者亮察。

《大脑的性别》主要内容简介：据称，科学证明了女性的精神结构不如男性复杂，女性的弱势地位是有生理基础的。在《大脑的性别》中，作者认真探究了大脑与行为的性别差异的科学，结果表明，在每一个时代，对自然性别和社会性别差异的科学结论，都包含了大量当时文化的折射。《大脑的性别》涉及了一系列重大问题：在思维和感知的过程中，存在性别差异吗？男女使用大脑的不同部位处理语言吗？社会关系对行为的影响比性激素更为强烈吗？同性恋基因真的存在吗？作者指出，生物和社会因素的复杂融合，为深入理解自然性别、社会性别和大脑提供了更好的途径。

仪式理论与实践一直是人类学研究中的一个重要领域，几乎所有的人类学流派都表现出对仪式的独特认知、理解和解释，人类学发展的整体脉络也在仪式研究中得到反映。一些著名的人类学家都在仪式研究方面独树一帜，并与他们的学术主张相辅相成，泰勒、弗雷泽、范．根纳普、涂尔干、马林诺夫斯基、拉德克利夫一布朗、克罗伯、列维一斯特劳斯、利奇、埃文斯一普里查德、弗斯、古迪、特纳、罗萨尔多、道格拉斯、洛伊、拉帕波特、贝尔……。早期英国人类学中甚至还有一个学派叫“神话仪式学派”（剑桥学派）。仪式理论已经形成了一个完整的知识谱系，国际学术界还有专治仪式研究的刊物——《仪式研究》。 本书是从人类学学科的角度对仪式领域进行研究的第一部专著，集谱系梳理、学理依据、理论介绍、流派分析、观点评述、田野案例及作者独立见解为一体。

「底邊階級╱底邊社會」是人類學者喬健教授最早提出的一組重要學術概念。「底邊階級」指的是處於社會底層及邊緣的群體，他們所屬的社會便是「底邊社會」。底邊階級是傳統中國社會的一部分而且是構成整個中國傳統社會階級體系的一種重要基礎。 自1994年起，喬健教授率領一批年輕學者對中國大陸的傳統底邊階級，包括樂戶、剃頭匠、雜技藝人及說唱藝人，作了深入而廣泛的田野研究。2006年他籌辦「底邊階級的傳統與現代：兩岸三地人類學與傳播交流合作工作坊」，邀請兩岸三地有關學者對過往十二年對底邊階級及底邊社會的研究作一總結，本書便是此一總結的具體呈現。內容包括兩岸三地著名學者許倬雲院士、科大衛教授、范可教授等有關的精闢論說。

This volume looks at Religions in China Today. Articles include: Belief in Control: Regulation of Religion in China, Local Communal Religion in Contemporary Southeast China, The Cult of the Silkworm Mother as a Core of Local Community Religion in a North China Village, Local Religion in Hong Kong and Macau, Religion and the State in Post-war Taiwan, Daoism in China Today, 1980-2002, Buddhist China at the Century's Turn, Islam in China: Accommodation or Separatism?, Catholic Revival during the Reform Era, Chinese Protestant Christianity Today, Healing Sects and Anti-Cult Campaigns.

“Good books capture critical moments. Liu has captured one here.” · Asian Anthropology “The book as a piece of writing is fluid and graceful. Liu's ethnographic accounts are indeed masterly--deftly weaving dialogue, observation, metaphor, and analysis in a way that would make many writers (of both fiction and nonfiction) sigh with envy. Liu juxtaposes characters and incidents in such a way as to subtly highlight the themes at hand, using humor, irony, and understatement to bring to life the world of ‘making up numbers.’ Liu effectively suggests that the rise of statistics and the objective mode are, like the rise of Maoism and the ideological mode, a phase in history that may or may not appear equally ridiculous in years to come. Can we see outside our own spot in history, Liu asks, and should we (and the people of China) give up dreaming and utopias merely because our current historical moment favors the narcissistic, corporeal statistic?” · H-Ideas Today’s world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being integrated into this global system of production and consumption. As a result, China’s immediate material impact is now felt almost everywhere in the world; however, the significance and process of this integration is far from understood. This study shows how the a priori categories of statistical reasoning came to be re-born and re-lived in the People’s Republic - as essential conditions for the possibility of a new mode of knowledge and governance. From the ruins of the Maoist revolution China has risen through a mode of quantitative self-objectification. As the author argues, an epistemological rift has separated the Maoist years from the present age of the People’s Republic, which appears on the global stage as a mirage. This study is an ethnographic investigation of concepts - of the conceptual forces that have produced and been produced by - two forms of knowledge, life, and governance. As the author shows, the world of China, contrary to the common view, is not the Chinese world; it is a symptomatic moment of our world at the present time.

《象征的来历：叶青村纳西族东巴教仪式研究》在本项研究中，笔者尝试串联起客观与主观，提出构拟象征动力学的初步思路。为此，在研究中引入了一个与符号构成对立的概念——实在。在符号与实在的对立轴上，符号偏向作为表达的手段，它的价值受语境的制约；实在则指被看作自身具有内在价值的自足体，也就是说，它是一种主观判断。譬如，某个交通标志在它所属的交通标志系统里，它是一个符号。当这个交通标志按所属系统的规则出现在路上，对于熟悉这个系统的人而言．它是一种实在。又如，一份合同是约定双方相互间的承诺的符号，对于守信的当事人而言，它是一种实在。象征符号的本质是替代品，自身不具备内在价值，它的价值取决于所在的系统。但是，符号不是静止的，符号实在化、实在符号化是文化史中的两股趋势性的力量。符号实在化指符号的替代品本质淡出人们的意识，转化为自在的实在体的过程，时间因素在这个过程里具有关键价值；实在符号化指实在性消解，象征符号还原其作为表达工具的替代品本质，以及与它相伴随的创新概念、发明符号的过程。从符号一实在出发，象征符号的丛林之门悄然开启，微风拂面。

Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of work with influence throughout the humanities and social sciences, and remains the foremost anthropologist in America. His 1980 book "Negara" analyzed the social organization of Bali before it was colonized by the Dutch in 1906. Here Geertz applied his widely influential method of cultural interpretation to the myths, ceremonies, rituals, and symbols of a precolonial state. He found that the nineteenth-century Balinese state defied easy conceptualization by the familiar models of political theory and the standard Western approaches to understanding politics. Negara means "country" or "seat of political authority" in Indonesian.In Bali Geertz found negara to be a "theatre state," governed by rituals and symbols rather than by force. The Balinese state did not specialize in tyranny, conquest, or effective administration. Instead, it emphasized spectacle. The elaborate ceremonies and productions the state created were "not means to political ends: they were the ends themselves, they were what the state was for...Power served pomp, not pomp power. " Geertz argued more forcefully in Negara than in any of his other books for the fundamental importance of the culture of politics to a society. Much of Geertz's previous work - including his world-famous essay on the Balinese cockfight - can be seen as leading up to the full portrait of the "poetics of power" that Negara so vividly depicts.

This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: Colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare Chinese notions of respect and inspiration with their equivalents in other religious and political histories of colonial and post-colonial modernity, thereby producing a thorough re-working of the idea of charisma. The result is an intriguing study of the relationship between religious and political authority in a changing world.