十四年前本书作者在滇池东岸的小村进行了人类学田野调查，后来这项研究以《罪过与惩罚：小村故事（1931 —1997）》为名成书。从2007年初开始，作者对这个地方再次做了系统的研究。《罪过与惩罚》关注小村内的纠纷、调解和惩罚，内容基本上限于法律人类学的传统范围。本书的内容则扩展到人 类学的更基础的论题，即通过对地志的研究，探讨农民的世界观、农民与国家的关系和人类学知识论等。本书的理论关怀是与实践中的问题紧密相关的，或者说是从现实中的紧迫问题开始的。

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers from all over Asia and Africa live and work there—even backpacking tourists rent rooms. In short, it is possibly the most globalized spot on the planet.
But as Ghetto at the Center of the World shows us, a trip to Chungking Mansions reveals a far less glamorous side of globalization. A world away from the gleaming headquarters of multinational corporations, Chungking Mansions is emblematic of the way globalization actually works for most of the world’s people. Gordon Mathews’s intimate portrayal of the building’s polyethnic residents lays bare their intricate connections to the international circulation of goods, money, and ideas. We come to understand the day-to-day realities of globalization through the stories of entrepreneurs from Africa carting cell phones in their luggage to sell back home and temporary workers from South Asia struggling to earn money to bring to their families. And we see that this so-called ghetto—which inspires fear in many of Hong Kong’s other residents, despite its low crime rate—is not a place of darkness and desperation but a beacon of hope.
Gordon Mathews’s compendium of riveting stories enthralls and instructs in equal measure, making Ghetto at the Center of the World not just a fascinating tour of a singular place but also a peek into the future of life on our shrinking planet.

布鲁斯·阿克曼所著的《我们人民--奠基(阿克曼文集)》克服了把对‘建国者的原意’的无望和荒唐的追求看作发现人民意志之方法这一障碍。该书指出，号召人民起来行动的伟大而神圣的时刻不限于十八世纪建国时期的单一个案。该书贬低了日常政治中政客们的自命不凡，但突出了宪法政治中动员民众支持它的政治领导力的重要性。它赋予了南神秘、无形、沉默，然而至高无上的人民拥有、治理和享有政府以现实的意义。

Based on research conducted over two decades, this accessible and deeply felt book provides a provocative comparative history of environmentalism in two large ecologically and culturally diverse democracies--India and the United States. Ramachandra Guha takes as his point of departure the dominant environmental philosophies in these two countries--identified as "agrarianism" in India and "wilderness thinking" in the U.S. Proposing an inclusive "social ecology" framework that goes beyond these partisan ideologies, Guha arrives at a richer understanding of controversies over large dams, state forests, wildlife reserves, and more. He offers trenchant critiques of privileged and isolationist proponents of conservation, persuasively arguing for biospheres that care as much for humans as for other species. He also provides profiles of three remarkable environmental thinkers and activists--Lewis Mumford, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, and Madhav Gadgil. Finally, the author asks the fundamental environmental question--how much should a person or country consume?--and explores a range of answers. Copub: Permanent Black

This is an omnibus edition of two books that have radically altered our understanding of Indian history. This Fissured Land presents an interpretive ecological history of the sub-continent. Ecology and Equity is a spirited intervention into the environment-development debate.

A new entry in the Longman World History Series, A Global History is perfect for professors who want to assign short topical paperbacks which explore global issues and movements in their world history classes. This volume will fit into the second half of World History courses which typically cover the period from 1500 to the present century. A Global History is the first genuinely global history of environmentalism. Written by one of the foremost thinkers on ecological issues relating to South Africa, Guha has become one of the more provocative and perceptive commentators on environmentalism in its cross-cultural and global dimensions. Students will find this new text to be a lively and engaging study of ideas and debates that are central to our lives in the twentieth-first century.

《世界荒漠》是世界荒漠与半荒漠自然特征与自然资源的总结。第一部分描述世界各大洲荒漠自然特征，进行特征比较，论述分类原则。第二部分阐述荒漠生境特征、沙流动与堆积的一般规律，研究风成地貌成因、生境限制因子特征，以及动、植物适应特征。第三部分论述荒漠自然及其现代利用，以及旱区研究对象及未来利用前景。

本书通过梳理英国文学中有关乡村与城市的种种论断和描述，对当代文学及文化研究中一些错误的乡村观念和城市观念进行了剖析，指出其谬误。作者集中驳斥了部分学者所坚持的“消逝的农村经济”、“快乐的英格兰”、“黄金时代”等缅怀旧日农村的错误观念，指出这些观念只是作者的想象，无论是历 史事实，还是部分作家的作品，都显示出昔日的英国农村充满了苦难，相对于城市而言，农村既不等同于落后和愚昧，也不是充满欢乐的故园；同理，城市虽然是在新的生产方式确立后兴盛起来的，但城市并不必然代表了进步，城市也面临太多的问题。简言之，城市无法拯救乡村，乡村也拯救不了城市。城市与乡村的这种矛盾与张力反映了资本主义发展模式遇到的一场全面而重的危机，要化解这场不断加深的危机，人类必须抵抗资本主义。
全书共二十五章。第一章具有前言的性质，概括了历史上人们围绕“乡村”和“城市”所形成的各种观念，指出英国经验对于研究“乡村”和“城市”关系所具有的重要意义。第二十五章为全书的总结。主体部分二十三章以英国文学中根深蒂固的乡村怀旧为起点，回顾了十六至二十世纪多部英国文学作品（包括诗歌、戏剧、小说、散文、随笔等）中对于“乡村”和“城市”的描写以及有关“乡村”和“城市”观点的发展变化，并将之与资本主义社会的整体发展过程联系起来，揭示出“乡村”和“城市”对立的实质及其所反映的现代大都市和工业化生活方式的危机。
雷蒙·威廉斯是一个世纪来最伟大的文学批评家之一，这是他最好的著作。对于英国文学和历史方面的课程而言，这是一本理想读物。
——布里·汤普森，加州大学
书中有第一手的文本材料，行文风格简明扼要，具有强烈的感染力。因为书中流露出作者对其论述主题的真切关注。
——纳奥米 布利文，《纽约客》

《国际环境译丛(第2辑)•破坏和破坏者:澳大利亚环境史》内容简介：澳大利亚环境史研究在国际环境史研究中独具特色。它的兴起是历史地理学的发展、解决现实问题的需要和国际学术交流相互作用的结果。澳大利亚环境史研究是一种跨学科研究，以可持续性为核心概念来编撰的、强调实用价值的应用史学。

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.

Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower, whom Stephen E. Ambrose has called "America's foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific," gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life. Already regarded as the benchmark in its field, Embracing Defeat is a work of colossal scholarship and history of the very first order.

Numerous reports of “cancer villages” have appeared in the past decade in both Chinese and Western media, highlighting the downside of China’s economic development. Less generally known is how people experience and understand cancer in areas where there is no agreement on its cause. Who or what do they blame? How do they cope with its onset? Fighting for Breath is the first ethnography to offer a bottom-up account of how rural families strive to make sense of cancer and care for sufferers. It addresses crucial areas of concern such as health, development, morality, and social change in an effort to understand what is at stake in the contemporary Chinese countryside.
Encounters with cancer are instances in which social and moral fault lines may become visible. Anna Lora-Wainwright combines powerful narratives and critical engagement with an array of scholarly debates in sociocultural and medical anthropology and in the anthropology of China. The result is a moving exploration of the social inequities endemic to post-1949 China and the enduring rural-urban divide that continues to challenge social justice in the People’s Republic. In-depth case studies present villagers’ “fight for breath” as both a physical and social struggle to reclaim a moral life, ensure family and neighborly support, and critique the state for its uneven welfare provision. Lora-Wainwright depicts their suffering as lived experience, but also as embedded in domestic economies and in the commodification of care that has placed the burden on families and individuals.
Fighting for Breath will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers in Chinese studies, sociocultural and medical anthropology, human geography, development studies, and the social study of medicine.
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Jon Elster has written a comprehensive, wide-ranging book on the emotions in which he considers the full range of theoretical approaches. Drawing on history, literature, philosophy and psychology, Elster presents a complete account of the role of the emotions in human behaviour. While acknowledging the importance of neurophysiology and laboratory experiment for the study of emotions, Elster argues that the serious student of the emotions can learn more from the great thinkers and writers of the past, from Aristotle to Jane Austen. He attaches particular importance to the work of the French moralists, notably La Rochefoucauld, who demonstrated the way esteem and self-esteem shape human motivation. The book also maintains a running dialogue with economists and rational-choice theorists. Combining methodological and theoretical arguments with empirical case-studies and written with Elster's customary verve and economy, this book has great cross-disciplinary appeal.

The Power of the Powerless (Czech: Moc bezmocných) is an expansive political essay written in October 1978 by the Czech dramatist, political dissident and later politician, Václav Havel. The essay dissects the nature of the communist regime of the time, life within such a regime and how by their very nature such regimes can create dissidents of ordinary citizens. The essay goes on to discuss ideas and possible actions by loose communities of individuals linked by a common cause, such as Charter 77. Officially suppressed, the essay was circulated in samizdat form and translated into multiple languages. It became a manifesto for dissent in Czechoslovakia, Poland and other communist regimes.

The Fish Can Sing is one of Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness’s most beloved novels, a poignant coming-of-age tale marked with his peculiar blend of light irony and dark humor.
The orphan Alfgrimur has spent an idyllic childhood sheltered in the simple turf cottage of a generous and eccentric elderly couple. Alfgrimur dreams only of becoming a fisherman like his adoptive grandfather, until he meets Iceland's biggest celebrity. The opera singer Gardar Holm’s international fame is a source of tremendous pride to tiny, insecure Iceland, though no one there has ever heard him sing. A mysterious man who mostly avoids his homeland and repeatedly fails to perform for his adoring countrymen, Gardar takes a particular interest in Alfgrimur’s budding musical talent and urges him to seek out the world beyond the one he knows and loves. But as Alfgrimur discovers that Gardar is not what he seems, he begins to confront the challenge of finding his own path without turning his back on where he came from.

The author of the national bestseller The Closing of the American Mind offers a provocative indictment of the devaluing of love and intimacy in today's culture. Allan Bloom explores the language of love from the Bible to Freud, shedding penetrating light on the true nature of our most basic human connections. "(A) rich mine of a book".--New York Daily News.

“谁是我们的敌人？”是革命者首先必须面对的问题。假如没有“敌人”，或者纯粹只是某个人的私敌，那么，革命的发生就没有社会和历史的合理依据，革命组织也相应地失去了存在的契机和必要。中国土地革命的领导人是怎样构建“敌人”的呢？他们对“敌人”的确认方式又是怎样有别于传统的造反者的呢？作者以赣东北革命根据地为对象探讨了这一话题，该根据地以其缔造者方志敏而著称。作者采用关注微观行动机制的“深描”（thick description）方法，详尽地解析了革命者是如何一步步利用、引导、转化、重构农民在日常生活中形成的朴素的“敌人意识”，为革命目标服务的；并对那种自上而下的、宏观的并以对政策的分析评价为主的主流研究方式提出了深刻的质疑和挑战。

First published in 1923, Cane is an innovative work-part drama, part poetry, part fiction-evoking black life in the American South. A new afterword by Rudolph Byrd and Henry Louis Gates Jr provides fresh biographical information on Jean Toomer.

“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America. This edition--the restored text of Native Son established by the Library of America--also includes an essay by Wright titled, How "Bigger" was Born, along with notes on the text.