《鲜花人类学》内容简介：

　　自旧石器时代晚期，当第一个远古人类惊异于花的美丽，将它的线条划刻在石头器物上时，人们便建立起与这种自然造物之间的羁绊。

　　回顾人类文明史，花的身影从未缺席。花的用途极为广泛，它不仅是带有宗教和社会象征意义的符号，也是诸多建筑、纺织品、绘画和诗歌中的永恒主题，更是人们日常生活中不可或缺的美学元素和情感载体。

　　著名人类学家杰克·古迪在这本书中着意解读花在人类文化中扮演的角色，填补了这一领域的研究空白。古迪以鲜花为棱镜，探讨花和花卉在数千年人类文化发展中的符号象征意义和价值，充分体现了他在跨文化比较时所展现的历史意识和闲情逸致。

　　作者简介

　　杰克·古迪（JackGoody,1919—2015），英国著名社会人类学家、历史学家，剑桥大学圣约翰学院资深研究员，于1976年当选英国社会科学院院士，因其对人类学研究的卓越贡献被女王授予爵位。1980年当选美国艺术与科学院外籍荣誉成员，2004年当选美国国家科学院院士。

　　古迪被认为是西方新史学的杰出代表之一。他长期开展对欧洲、非洲和亚洲的比较研究,对欧洲中心主义做出了很多批判，著述成果颇丰，主要包括《传统社会的读写》《野性心灵的驯服》《烹饪、菜肴与阶级》《西方中的东方》《偷窃历史》等，展现了其对于社会和长时期历史的开阔视野。

　　译者简介：

　　刘夙，中国科学院植物研究所博士，现为上海辰山植物园科普部研究员，从事科学通俗读物著译、科技史和科技文化研究及植物知识百科网站建设等工作，已著译有《植物名字的故事》《醉酒的植物学家》《植物知道生命的答案》等书二十多部。

　　胡永红，博士毕业于北京林业大学，先后任上海植物园园长、上海辰山植物园执行园长。长期致力于植物学、种质资源创新及城市生态修复技术研究，在植物园建设与发展、植物资源保护与可持续利用等方面贡献卓著。已承担国家级和省部级课题30余项，发表科研论文90余篇，出版系列专著15册，创制新品种21个，授权专利23项。

Introduction to Anthropology of Flowers:

Since the late Paleolithic Period, when the first ancient humans were amazed by the beauty of flowers and carved their lines on stone objects, people have established a bond with this natural creation.

Looking back on the history of human civilization, flowers have never been absent. Flowers are not only a symbol with religious and social symbolism, but also an eternal theme in many buildings, textiles, paintings and poems, and an indispensable aesthetic element and emotional carrier in People's Daily life.

In this book, Jack Goody, a famous anthropologist, interprets the role of flowers in human culture, filling the research gap in this field. Taking flowers as a prism, Goody discusses the symbolic significance and value of flowers and flowers in the development of human culture for thousands of years, which fully reflects his historical consciousness and leisure in cross-cultural comparison.

About the author

JackGoody (1919-2015) is a famous British social anthropologist and historian, senior Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge, was elected a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences in 1976, and was knighted by the Queen for his outstanding contributions to anthropological research. He was elected an honorary Foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2004.

Goody is regarded as one of the outstanding representatives of Western new historiography. He has long carried out comparative studies of Europe, Africa and Asia, made many criticisms of Eurocentrism, and has written a lot of achievements, mainly including the Reading and Writing of Traditional Society, the Taming of the Wild Mind, Cooking, Dishes and Class, East in the West, Stealing History, etc., showing his broad vision of society and long-term history.

About the Translator

Liu Su, Ph.D., Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is now a researcher of the Science Popularization Department of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, engaged in the translation of popular scientific books, science and technology history and science and culture research and the construction of plant knowledge encyclopedia website, has written and translated more than 20 books such as "The Story of Plant Names", "Drunk Botanist" and "Plants Know the Answer to Life".

Hu Yonghong, Ph.D., graduated from Beijing Forestry University, served as Director of Shanghai Botanical Garden and Executive Director of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden. He has long been committed to botany, germplasm resource innovation and urban ecological restoration technology research, and has made outstanding contributions to the construction and development of botanical gardens, the protection and sustainable utilization of plant resources. He has undertaken more than 30 national and provincial projects, published more than 90 scientific research papers, published a series of 15 monographs, created 21 new varieties, and authorized 23 patents.