Ways of Thinking and Ways of Doing

Naila Kabeer, Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought Margaret Snyder and Mary Tadesse, African Women and Development: A History Marianne Marchand and Jane Parpart (eds) Feminism, Postmodernism, Development Nabil F. Khoury and Valentine Moghadam (eds) Gender and Development in the Arab World. Women's Economic Participation: Patterns and Policies     

环境史研究的三个层面

历史学者总是臆断人类生活在自然世界之外。环境史质疑这种假设,并且坚持人类是自然的一部分,我们对自然施加着影响,同时自然也对我们具有影响。这种新的观念聚焦在三套相互作用的变化之上：地球的各种系统（气候、地理、生态系统）伴随时间的变化,自这些系统中谋求生计的生产模式的变化,以及文化态度的变化及其在艺术、意识形态、科学和政治中的表现。这门新的历史学在其方法上是跨学科的,而在其含义上是跨国界的。     

校史编研:当代史研究的一个新领域

改革开放以来 ,学校教育得到了快速发展 ,同时校史编研也应运而生。经过 2 0多年的努力 ,校史编研取得了丰硕的成果 ,已经成为当代史研究的一个新领域。步入 2 1世纪 ,随着我国学校教育进入新的发展时期 ,校史编研也面临着提高编研水平、调整研究方向和与国际上先进高等学校院校研究接轨等多重任务 ,今后校史编研工作将会提高到一个新的水平     

Models, Narratives, and French Ways off Doing

Books reviewed in this article:
Jean-Yves Grenier, Claude Grignon, and Pierre-Michel Menger, eds., Le Modèle et le récit     

新中国外交史若干史实考订(续)

60年代末至 70年代初 ,是新中国外交史上对美、对苏政策进一步嬗变的重要时期。近年来史学界、文学界对这一时期的历史予以关注。虽然时代相隔并不遥远 ,但以讹传讹 ,谬误不少。为提倡认真、严谨的治学态度 ,呼吁治史的严肃性 ,本文就毛泽东“五二○”声明的起草和发表以及周恩来何时获悉中国恢复联大的合法席位等两个问题作一考证 ,以正视听。     

Reporting in Prose: Reconsidering Ways of Writing History

This article reconsiders history's ways of reporting in prose. Ways of analysing and writing history so as to evoke a past are contrasted with ways of analysing and writing history so as to frame theses about a past. Academic norms now favour theses. It was not always so. This article contrasts very early European theories about writing prose, including key writings by Johannine Christians and by Heraclitus. Influenced by Martin Heidegger's existentialist phenomenology, this article reasserts the worth of the evocative in history by attempting to reprise its philosophical foundations and by reconstructing the place of prose in the history of ideas.     

扶桑社《新历史教科书》的历史观

扶桑社的《新历史教科书》改订本在2005年由日本部科学省审定通过后,正在引起人们的注意,并开始了对这一教科书的批判。本强调的是：这本教科书确实对日本发动的侵略战争的历史事实进行了歪曲与掩盖,但这是由该书的基本的历史观所决定的。如果不对该书的理论体系所反映出来的历史观进行剖析,而简单地罗列其歪曲或掩盖的历史事实,有可能在不知不觉中陷入该教科书编织的理论体系,从而忽略了对该教科书最要害的本质问题的分析。《新历史教科书》的最本质的问题,是通过精心选取的历史资料,按照编设计的叙述过程,一步一步地建立起唯心主义史观的理论体系,这一体系肯定战前日本的“国体论”,而根本转移或充分淡化人们所关注的侵略战争的历史事实和所追究的侵略战争的历史责任,是把日本引向战争道路的危险的体系。     

Ways of Writing in Post-Medieval and Historical Archaeology: Introducing Biography

Abstract

Archaeologists use writing as an important method of communicating results and interpretations, but have only recently started to consider what this implies about their research, and the effect that any style of writing has on the intended audience. Whilst public interpretation has widened forms of discourse to include narrative, performance and biography, few such academic and professional outputs have been attempted in British post-medieval archaeology, although in the wider discipline of North American historical archaeology there has been some experimentation. It is argued that biography offers new ways of encountering data, as well as opening up different modes of interpretation and communication within professional and academic arenas.     

Memory and History: Liturgical Time and Historical Time

This article investigates the differential structure and representation of time in memory and history. It examines two moments in Jewish historical thought—in the Middle Ages, and in works written within and after the Holocaust—and demonstrates the fundamentally liturgical nature of Jewish historical memory in selected texts from these two periods. Following the groundbreaking work of Yerushalmi, it seeks to demonstrate that for Jews, historical experience is incorporated into the cyclical reenactment of paradigmatic events in Jewish sacred ritual. Recent or contemporary experiences acquire meaning only insofar as they can be subsumed within Biblical categories of events and their interpretation bequeathed to the community through the medium of Scripture, that is to say, only insofar as they can be transfigured, ritually and liturgically, into repetitions and reenactments of ancient happening. In such liturgical commemoration, the past exists only by means of recitation; the fundamental goal of such recitation is to make it live again in the present, to fuse past and present, chanter and hearer, into a single collective entity. History, in the sense that we understand it to consist of unique events unfolding within irreversible linear time, is absorbed into cyclical, liturgical memory.
This article argues that the question of Jewish history—both medieval and post-Holocaust—poses in a compelling fashion the question of the relationship between memory and history more generally, and serves to contest the current tendency in academic historiography to collapse history into memory. It claims that to the extent that memory "resurrects,""re-cycles," and makes the past "reappear" and live again in the present, it cannot perform historically, since it refuses to keep the past in the past, to draw the line, as it were, that is constitutive of the modern enterprise of historiography.