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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对于文化、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。
New & Noteworthy
Edited by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Jemima Pierre, and Junaid Rana
Series
Ideas
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Melissa Burch on The Criminal Record Complex
The Criminal Record Complex chronicles the daily interactions of hiring managers, workforce development professionals, and job-seekers with felony convictions in Southern California, and Melissa Burch shows that this discrimination is not simply a matter of employer bias.
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Why linguistic diversity matters
Over 7,000 languages are spoken today, but nearly half could vanish by the end of the century.
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The Book of Yerba Mate
Brewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of liquid effervescence many of us get from coffee or tea.
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The right way to drink yerba mate
The first time someone from North America tries yerba mate in the traditional style, with a gourd or cattle horn stuffed with smokey green leaves and the metal drinking straw, we often break one of the unwritten rules of the South American drink.
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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.