本书稿根据对中国西南四川省雅安市宝兴县硗碛藏族乡的田野调查资料，以家屋的名号“房名”的研究为切入点，讨论了嘉绒藏族的社会结构，是一篇关于嘉绒藏族社会结构的民族志。作者希望以此展现作为一个不同文化中的社会，嘉绒藏族社会结构呈现何种特殊性。

With its infamously packed cars and disciplined commuters, Tokyo’s commuter train network is one of the most complex technical infrastructures on Earth. In An Anthropology of the Machine, Michael Fisch provides a nuanced perspective on how Tokyo’s commuter train network embodies the lived realities of technology in our modern world. Drawing on his fine-grained knowledge of transportation, work, and everyday life in Tokyo, Fisch shows how fitting into a system that operates on the extreme edge of sustainability can take a physical and emotional toll on a community while also creating a collective way of life—one with unique limitations and possibilities.
An Anthropology of the Machine is a creative ethnographic study of the culture, history, and experience of commuting in Tokyo. At the same time, it is a theoretically ambitious attempt to think through our very relationship with technology and our possible ecological futures. Fisch provides an unblinking glimpse into what it might be like to inhabit a future in which more and more of our infrastructure—and the planet itself—will have to operate beyond capacity to accommodate our ever-growing population.

《五溪苗族古今生活集》，原名即《五溪蛮图志》，又曾名《五溪苗族风土记》，分“五溪图案”、“五溪风土”、“五溪诗文”、“五溪兵事”，共四集。《五溪蛮图志》，系明成化（1465—1487）初，昆山（今江苏省苏州市地）沈瓒任辰州（治今湖南省怀化市沅陵县）教谕时初撰，然未刊。近300年后，清乾隆十六年（1751），由时官辰州的“沅川”（应为今湖南泸溪县地）李涌重加整理，但仍未刊行。陈心传；基督教传教士，作了考校重编，以平时在湘西民族地区传教时所作笔记，即自己实地所见所闻的资料为依据，见所载事迹不足之处“增补之”，见其所记风土与“近年异同处”，则“以案语证明之”。并将增补重编稿初定为《五溪苗族风土记》，后改为《五溪苗族古今生活集》。

在这本有关城市形态的著作中，作者里克沃特断言，一个城镇的理念必须足够坚实，才能在不可避免的纷乱更迭的城市体验中存活下来。当现在的城市变得只关注建筑单体、只关注城市的物质要素和市场运作的时候，人们不该忘记，城市形态的可识别性和质感、开放性的公共空间、醒目的公共建筑仍然可以丰富我们的城市。此书已经再版多次，并被译成多种文字出版，并被许多国家列为建筑学课程的教材。