明清、民国时期民间教派的太阳神

几千年来,太阳神信仰对于塑造我国民众的社会和文化心理产生了重大影响。太阳神信仰出现之初,是作为原始宗教存在的;在漫长的岁月中,又一直留存在一些民间宗教中。这种宗教形态的太阳神信仰,可以说是我国民间太阳神信仰的核心部分和集中体现。民俗形态的太阳神信仰,就其起源而言,可以说是宗教形态太阳神信仰的辐射与延续。本文拟根据在华北等地的田野调查和民间教派的宝卷,对明清、     

地图上的盘龙城

盘龙城之名的由来,民间祖传有三说,一说盘龙城靠近盘龙湖,因盘龙湖而得名。二说因盘龙城四周为江,河水系所盘旋而得名。三说曾有地方志和解放前的旧地图称盘龙城为“盘土城”,其意是因“城是土筑,其形为方盘”。我们可以从民间传说中且有字可依的资料来证明这一名称的来历：     

论古代民间演剧的礼与俗——以山西碑刻为例

山西现存大量的碑刻,涉及民间信仰与戏剧演出等多方面内容。对此类碑刻的解读的过程中,不难发现,宋元至明清民间祭祀与民间演剧处于一种互动关系中,且从重传统、重祭祀逐渐向重教化、重娱乐倾斜,向秩序建构的方向发展。     

睡虎地秦简《日书》所见“室”的结构与战国末期秦的家族类型

睡虎地秦简《日书》所见“室”的结构与战国末期秦的家族类型（韩国）尹在硕本文分析了云梦睡虎地秦墓出土日书①反映的“室”的结构。可以说秦简日书不仅反映了当时人们生活中最为普遍的现象,还反映出当时民间的思维结构。因此,通过日书所反映的民间信仰内容,推导出可...     

山西民间信仰研究的一部力作——评《诸神与众生：清代、民国山西太谷的民间信仰与乡村社会》

王守恩的《诸神与众生：清代、民国山西太谷的民间信仰与乡村社会》是笔者近年来所见山西民间信仰研究领域的第一部专著。该书对清代、民国太谷县的民间信仰与乡村社会做了具有开拓性的初步探讨,不仅吸收了国内外学术界民间信仰研究的相关成果,而且有不少新的发现和见解。该书扩展了我们对山西社会史的认识,并为当今农村的现代化建设与和谐社会构建提供了历史借鉴,可以说是山西民间信仰研究中一部多有创新的力作和一项很有价值的成果。     

关公信仰研究的新进展

正可以说,关公信仰是一种非常典型和普遍的民间信仰。作为三国时期的英雄人物关羽,何以会在历史潮流相互交锋、激荡、融合的漫长展开中演变为一个广为民众信仰和祭祀的神话般人物,自古以来就是人们所热衷钻研和讨论的话题。关公信仰早已成为世俗生活与神灵世界交通的一种经典文化符号,其中所蕴含的历史意义不断地得以建构、诠释、流传,由此从信仰与秩序的视角呈现出中国传统文化传承与再造中丰富多样的厚重画面。     

童年的珍宝——喜读云南民族民间童话选《十只金鸡的故事》

每个人都难忘自己的童年,部记得自己怎样趴在老祖母、外婆的膝上听讲民间童话故事的情景。我小时候也如此,直到成年的今天,还记得外婆讲的那些富有哲理、耐人寻味的民间童话故事。可以说,优秀的民间童话是小读者们藏在心底的永恒的珍珠宝贝。出于这种特殊的情感,我兴趣甚浓地翻     

论日本圆仁《入唐求法巡礼行记》对历史细节的描写

中国的正史不管是二十四史还是二十五史,都可以说是“官史”或“宫史”,再或说是皇帝王朝的家族史。至于民间的稗官野史,那是很难登大雅之堂的。因此,可以说所有的正史它都有一个严重的先天不足：它缺乏来自民间的对历史若干细节的真实描写和记载。     

张维迎 我对我的为人很自信

可以说,我所知道的经济学者里,我个人的自我保护能力最差,经常把自己当作一个靶子。好多事我是不太想保护自己的如果你骂我道德败坏、勾结富人、无视民间疾苦,那只能说明你不了解张维迎,我对自己的为人做事很自信。有人说某个企业家花8万块就把张维迎搞定,那你就太小看张维迎了     

关于民间信仰史研究中的几个问题

民间信仰是一个历史性概念,主要存在于民间社会所存在的历史时段中;它发生于文明诞生的过程中,与民间社会共同萌发、共同形成。同时,民间信仰也是一个动态的、不断发展变化的精神世界,不同时代的民间信仰因其信仰群体以及社会环境的不同而各具特色。民间信仰的研究范围是民间社会所发生与传承的种种信仰,对于官方社会中所存在的民间信仰的行为,可视之为民间信仰的影响与延伸。     

Climate and energy security policies and measures: synergies and conflicts

Concerns about climate and energy security are leading to increased government intervention in the energy sector, in particular as they relate to the choice of energy supply options. While many of these options will improve both energy and climate security, many measures will benefit one while harming the other. This raises an important question for governments and energy planners: how can conflicts between climate and energy security be resolved? This article outlines some of the barriers and problems that may arise as governments and companies try to address climate and energy security concerns simultaneously in various energy supply areas. It concludes by arguing against choosing one objective over the other, and by outlining steps that can be taken to help resolve conflicts between the two agendas.     

我和我的兄弟姐妹

1938年．我出生在金沙江畔一个叫巴塘的小县城里。生在哪一天．至今不知道．因此．六十多年过去了．我从来也没有过过生日。     

Challenger and Chernobyl Lessons and Reflections

Abstract

It is argued that Psychological research on 'race' and 'ethnicity' issues presents a number of ethical problems. These relate to the sociopolitical impact of such research, particularly when it purports to find differences of an 'innate' character; to the use of naive subjects, particularly children, in research which is aimed at demonstrating their 'inferiority'; and, within the academic community itself, to the working relationships between researchers who believe in 'innate' 'race' differences and colleagues belonging to allegedly 'inferior' groups – this being particularly significant within a teaching environment. Although the 'race differences' question has a long and controversial history, ethical issues relating to the research process itself have received less focused attention. Moreover, replacement of the genetically obsolete concept of 'race' with the idea of 'ethnicity' does not solve the problem entirely, and the term 'ethnicity' is itself unsatisfactory in several respects.     

Power and Ethnicity History and Anthropology

This essay reflects on the relationship between anthropological and historical scholarship of ethnicity, picking up on themes explored by Andre Gingrich, by considering the epistemological and evidentiary limitations of social scientific and historical analysis and reconstruction. Beginning with the consideration of the pioneering transdisciplinary efforts of Robert Darnton and Clifford Geertz, it argues that many of the weaknesses ascribed to such efforts are actually part of the nature of social scientific investigation which, in the terms of Peter Winch, must take into account two sets of relationships: that of the relationship between the scientist and the phenomena that he or she observes and the symbolic system that he or she shares with other scientists, which can only be understood from the social context of common activity. How these two relationships challenge social scientific analysis of ethnicity are examined through a consideration of the difficulties of applying Anthony Smith's definition of an ethnie to either Fredrik Barth's classic essay on “Pathan Identity and its Maintenance” or Helmut Reimitz's study of Frankish identity. It concludes that neither anthropologists nor historians are simply describing societies as they are or as they were but rather attempt to describe societies as witnesses within them thought they should be, and we do this for our own society, not for those of the participants, past or present.     

Of Demons and Angels and Historical Humans: Some Events and Questions in Translation and Post-colonial Theory

In what follows, I attempt to show that a look at some curious examples of translations from European texts makes us think about issues in translation theory and post-colonial theory from a slightly different angle. The metaphor of translation can very well be employed for understanding the relation between European texts, and some texts and some social and political practices in India in the colonial period, and this in turn helps us look critically at what I shall call our fuzzy post-colonialism. I also argue that Walter Benjamin's metaphor of translation as the after-life of a work can be extended to posit two basic modes of after-life.     

后伊拉克时代与中国的内政外交--普遍主义与单边主义的冲突

"9·11"事件后,冷战后的国际政治格局发生了重大变化.其最大特征可以概括为以下两点:第一,确立了以唯一超级大国--美国为核心的以反恐为普遍主义的全球性安全阵线;第二,美国的爱国主义、民族主义戏剧性地高涨起来.就像当时有人强调因为全世界有60多个国家的人在世界贸易中心工作,所以对世贸中心的攻击就是对全世界的攻击那样,在美国国民中普遍存在着这样的观点:因为美国社会自身就是世界的缩影,所以星条旗也可被看作是超越一国国界的全人类的普遍象征.