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.

Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton—a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs—anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider’s account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating male heterosexual strip club "regulars." Given that all of the clubs where she worked prohibited physical contact between the exotic dancers and their customers, in G-Strings and Sympathy Frank asks what—if not sex or even touching—the repeat customers were purchasing from the clubs and from the dancers. She finds that the clubs provide an intermediate space—not work, not home—where men can enjoyably experience their bodies and selves through conversation, fantasy, and ritualized voyeurism. At the same time, she shows how the dynamics of male pleasure and privilege in strip clubs are intertwined with ideas about what it means to be a man in contemporary America.
Frank’s ethnography draws on her work as an exotic dancer in five clubs, as well as on her interviews with over thirty regular customers—middle-class men in their late-twenties to mid-fifties. Reflecting on the customers’ dual desires for intimacy and visibility, she explores their paradoxical longings for "authentic" interactions with the dancers, the ways these aspirations are expressed within the highly controlled and regulated strip clubs, and how they relate to beliefs and fantasies about social class and gender. She considers how regular visits to strip clubs are not necessarily antithetical to marriage or long-term heterosexual relationships, but are based on particular beliefs about marriage and monogamy that make these clubs desirable venues. Looking at the relative "classiness" of the clubs where she worked—ranging from the city’s most prestigious clubs to some of its dive bars—she reveals how the clubs are differentiated by reputations, dress codes, cover charges, locations, and clientele, and describes how these distinctions become meaningful and erotic for the customers. Interspersed throughout the book are three fictional interludes that provide an intimate look at Frank’s experiences as a stripper—from the outfits to the gestures, conversations, management, coworkers, and, of course, the customers.
Focusing on the experiences of the male clients, rather than those of the female sex workers, G-Strings and Sympathy provides a nuanced, lively, and tantalizing account of the stigmatized world of strip clubs.

Called "the most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conducted" by the "New York Times", this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families. In a study by the UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives and Families, researchers tracked the daily lives of 32 dual worker middle class Los Angeles families between 2001 and 2004. The results are startling, and enlightening. "Fast-Forward Family" shines light on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and the challenges for parents as they try to reconcile ideals regarding what it means to be a good parent, a good worker, and a good spouse. Though there are also moments of connection, affection, and care, it's evident that life for 21st century working parents is frenetic, with extended work hours, children's activities, chores, meals to prepare, errands to run, and bills to pay.

    本书的独特之处在于以一种学术作品罕见的软性触角，以一种英国式幽默风趣的笔调彻底摧毁了田野工作的美丽幻想，将隐匿于严肃人类学专著背后的鲜活经历与感触一一呈现给读者。

Do institutions think? If so, how do they do it? Do they have minds of their own? If so, what thoughts occupy these suprapersonal minds? Mary Douglas delves into these questions as she lays the groundwork for a theory of institutions. Usually the human reasoning process is explained with a focus on the individual mind; her focus is on culture. Using the works of Emile Durkheim and Ludwik Fleck as a foundation, "How Institutions Think" clarifies the extent to which thinking itself is dependent upon institutions. Different kinds of institutions allow individuals to think different kinds of thoughts and to respond to different emotions. It is just as difficult to explain how individuals come to share the categories of their thought as to explain how they ever manage to sink their private interests for a common good. Douglas forewarns us that institutions do not think independently, nor do they have purposes, nor can they build themselves. As we construct our institutions, we are squeezing each other's ideas into a common shape in order to prove their legitimacy by sheer numbers. She admonishes us not to take comfort in the thought that primitives may think through institutions, but moderrjs decide on important issues individually. Our legitimated institutions make major decisions, and these decisions always involve ethical principles.

本书以中产阶级的生活方式为观察对象，透过丰富鲜活的民俗材料，描述了1880年至1910年间的瑞典中产阶级的生活图景：他们尝试摆脱“暴发户”的嘴脸，并希望与农民、没落贵族以及无产者划清界限；在努力营造自身的文化和生活方式的同时，他们也认为自己的文化形式是最文明、最先进的，并应被推广给普罗大众。正是在对“美好生活”的包装与塑造中，中产阶级自身的文化和价值观也成功地渗透到现代日常生活的每一个琐碎庸常的角落。
对于世纪之交瑞典中产阶级的这一研究发人深省，它表明对中产阶级的研究与认识应当基于理解而非抨击；本书的另一个重要贡献是表现历史研究可以结合其他相邻学科的方法。这两个成就令人鼓舞。
——Journal of Modern History
作者们所体现的知识视野之广令人惊叹。他们对来自民族学档案、课本、回忆录、小说和礼仪手册中的材料巧手编织，展现了中产阶级、农民和工人阶级的丰富的日常生活画面。本书还对社会文化的复杂性、冲突与抵牾进行了深入的思考，而这些内容往往都被忽视了。
——American Anthropologist
本书融合了历史学和民族学的方法所呈现的生活方式，不仅能吸引斯堪底纳维亚的学者们，同样也能吸引历史学家、社会学家，以及试图描述与解读19世纪西方文化和中产阶级的所有人。
——Ethnos

作为1949年以来第一个在中华人民共和国进行精神医学研究的美国学者，凯博文在多层面上探讨了神经衰弱、抑郁症以及躯体症状之间的关系。本书为我们理解中国人在与家庭和国家的关系上的体验开启了一个窗口，同时也对中国人和美国人各自如何解释自身的疼痛与绝望处境进行了一个跨文化的比较。
“本书对疾病症状与社会之间的辩证关系的分析十分具有穿透力。这本强力著作不仅属于人类学与精神医学的先锋之作，而且也展示了作者对消除人类不幸与苦难的深切关注和担当。所有致力于改善健康照顾系统的人都应该阅读本书。”
——Joan M. Anderson, Current Anthropology
“此书堪称医学人类学界长期以来所期盼的最重要的一本著作。”
——Richard Shweder, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
“一本视野宽广、发人深省的医学人类学著作。”
——Roy Porter, Times Literary Supplement
“对跨文化精神医学具有重要贡献。”
——Paul Chodoff, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association
“本书的田野研究写作精美，以至于历史学家都不断被其描述的中国共产主义政治实践中的那些重要时刻所吸引。作者以丰富细腻的笔触描写了中国人的社会关系，童年以及成长过程中出现的那些问题。”
——Jonathan Spence, Yale University
“这是到目前为止我们对中国精神健康问题的最好的研究。这是一本具有开创意义的著作。”
——Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University

时至今日，个人的健康与安乐，日益与其获取药物的情况息息相关。
2003年，全球制药业的销售额达5000亿美元。这个利润率极高的产业，伴随着药物市场的加速发展和全球公共卫生危机的并发，正在将个体的健康与幸福，重写为一种商品。于是，一些迎合生活方式的治疗市场被建立（如抗抑郁剂销量的急剧上升），同时，一些关系到基本生存的急需市场却刻意被忽略（如非洲艾滋病药物市场的发展缓慢）。
本书收录文章来源于哈佛大学第三届里弗斯年度研讨会，集结了医药学领域顶尖的人类学家和药学史家的最新田野工作成果。譬如：在低收入国家中人体试验群体的迅速增长；跨国制药公司在进入日本和阿根廷市场时的教化和监控策略；由于公共卫生服务的萎缩，印度德里贫民社区中形成的复杂的医患关系和网络；以及巴西在对抗艾滋病流行过程，国家、跨国机构和草根组织间的角力与互动，等等。
“健康是每个个体享有的权利，也是国家的责任”，对于药物全球化的民族志研究，不但构建了今日人类学的核心问题，同时，也深深凸显了药物全球流通中出现的“价值鸿沟”：究竟是谁的疾病值得治疗？谁的生命值得拯救？

本书为“复旦百年经典文库”之一种，共收入田汝康先生的《滇缅边地摆夷的宗教信仰》《中国帆船贸易与对外关系史论集》《男权阴影与贞妇烈女：明清时期道德观的比较》3本著作及6篇涉及不同方面的论文。其中《滇缅边地摆夷的宗教信仰》是在《芒市边民的摆》的基础上修订而成的，原书由康奈尔大学出版社出版，此次翻译收入，是其修订本首次以中文面貌呈现；《男权阴影与贞妇烈女：明清时期道德观的比较》原书由荷兰莱顿博睿出版社出版，在海外影响深远，此次也是首次翻译面世。从此文集可以看出田汝康先生广博的研究领域和深厚的历史学、社会学研究功底，然而如今其名却少有人听闻；相信本书的出版可以使读者了解这位复旦杰出学者的非同凡响的学术人生。

In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within. Moral behavior does not begin and end with religion but is in fact a product of evolution.
For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fresh evidence for the seeds of ethical behavior in primate societies that further cements the case for the biological origins of human fairness. Interweaving vivid tales from the animal kingdom with thoughtful philosophical analysis, de Waal seeks a bottom-up explanation of morality that emphasizes our connection with animals. In doing so, de Waal explores for the first time the implications of his work for our understanding of modern religion. Whatever the role of religious moral imperatives, he sees it as a “Johnny-come-lately” role that emerged only as an addition to our natural instincts for cooperation and empathy.
But unlike the dogmatic neo-atheist of his book’s title, de Waal does not scorn religion per se. Instead, he draws on the long tradition of humanism exemplified by the painter Hieronymus Bosch and asks reflective readers to consider these issues from a positive perspective: What role, if any, does religion play for a well-functioning society today? And where can believers and nonbelievers alike find the inspiration to lead a good life?
Rich with cultural references and anecdotes of primate behavior, The Bonobo and the Atheist engagingly builds a unique argument grounded in evolutionary biology and moral philosophy. Ever a pioneering thinker, de Waal delivers a heartening and inclusive new perspective on human nature and our struggle to find purpose in our lives.