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Fred Appel
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Rebecca Brennan
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Rachael Levay
Senior Editor, Sociology & Anthropology
我们在此类别下的书籍考察了生活在不同时空、不同文化中的人们如何在各自的世界生活和思考——这种考察鼓励我们批判性地思考我们所珍视的关于文化、种族、性别、理性、政治等方面的设想。普林斯顿大学出版社的书单以包含社会人类学或文化人类学子学科的书籍为特色,宣扬了在理论上和历史上均已获得论证的人种学。
最近的书籍已经在新兴数字文化研究中沿用了传统的人种志方法。普林斯顿大学出版社的书单中还有阐释生物学和人类发展进化方面的书籍,涉及古人类学、灵长类学、文化和行为进化、人类生物学和进化医学等方面。
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Matsutake as world-makers
What a Mushroom Lives For takes us beyond the animal realm to explore a place barely known to most people, the inner realm of fungi and how they participate in making the world around them via their relations to microbes, other fungi, plants, and animals.
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A look inside Running Out
On the high plains of western Kansas, there is no clear line between water and second chances. Although I didn’t know it at the time, I was in search of both when I turned my Prius off a two-lane highway and onto the washboard gravel that led back to the farm.
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Welcome to Armageddon
Each day throughout the year, the tour buses begin arriving at Megiddo soon after 9:00 a.m., disgorging fifty tourists at a time. By the time the site closes at 5:00 p.m., several dozen buses will have deposited hundreds of visitors. “Welcome to Armageddon,” the tour guides say, as they march their flocks up the steep incline and through the ancient city gate.
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Acquiring a horizon
Expectations about the environment and how it should act are being undone. In an idealized world, scientific projections hold; natural disasters can be contained; and knowledge, assumed to be cumulative, can be relied upon to maintain some semblance of predictability.
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Exploring London’s past through mudlarking
For millennia, objects have found their way into the River Thames as it flows through London. Household rubbish has been dumped into it, personal possessions accidentally lost, cargoes spilt, offerings made to gods, and coins tossed in for luck.