河北省博物馆几宗珍贵文物的发现和征集

50年代末至60年代初,河北省博物馆为配合“河北革命史陈列”,调集全馆人力,按时期和专题对革命文物进行了大规模的征集工作,征得文物数以万计,这时期可称得上是革命文物征集工作的黄金时代。从1963年起,文物征集工作的重点转向丁古代文物,至“文革”前的一段时间,形成古代文物征集工作的高潮。馆内一些老业务工作者征集收购了大批各类古代文物及近现代艺术品,其中包括不少价值极高的珍品,     

Fashioning a Cacique Nun: From Saints’ Lives to Indian Lives in the Spanish Americas

New Spain was a land of opportunity for the missionary as well as the conquistador. The controversial proposal to found a convent for women of the indigenous elite illuminates the redefinition of notions of gender and race. Examining testimonies on this question written by priests, this article charts how they transform material that would normally have been presented as hagiography into narratives of a more general nature, and argues that this rhetorical shift contributed to a kind of writing on the Indies which not only shared the comparative and epistemological stakes of ethnography but also considered issues of gender.     

The Clerk, the Thief, His Life as a Baker: Ashton Embry and the Supreme Court Leak Scandal

On December 16, 1919, Ashton Fox Embry, law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Joseph McKenna, abruptly resigned from the position he had held for almost nine years. His explanation? His fledgling bakery business required his undivided attention. Newspapers that morning hinted at a different reason: Embry resigned because he had conspired with at least three individuals to use inside knowledge of upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decisions to profit on Wall Street.2 A grand jury returned an indictment against Embry and his associates a few months later, and Embry’s argument that he had committed no crime ultimately reached the Supreme Court, the very institution he was accused of betraying. Despite the sensational headlines and fierce legal battle arising from his indictment, the United States Attorney quietly dismissed Embry’s case in 1929, almost ten years after the story had broken. Few Court scholars have ever heard of Embry, and the memory of Embry, much like the case against him, has disappeared with time.3 This article unravels the “Supreme Court Leak Case” by reconstructing what happened almost eighty years ago.     

历史类博物馆藏书结构及利用分析──以河南博物院为例

博物馆藏书结构与博物馆业务研究密切相关。本文分析了河南博物院图书室的性质、作用和藏书结构与业务研究的关系,提出了如何解决现有矛盾的对策。     

在博物馆里学习:博物馆观众认知特征及传播策略初探

21世纪以来,中国博物馆事业快速发展,提升展览的传播效益成为亟待解决的问题。与其他媒体相比,博物馆学习是观众在特定空间行走、站立过程中,通过对展物的观察、体验和参与而学习,因此以观众学习的认知特征为前提制定的传播策略更具有针对性和有效性。博物馆展览策展人与设计者应该着重考虑加强对展品实物的阐释,增强展览的叙事能力,帮助观众适应以实物为介质的学习;采用相应的技术增强故事线的逻辑性,更好地营造信息空间,帮助观众在特定空间的站立与行走中进行更有效的学习;引入多种媒体,充分作用于多种感官,以提升观众的学习效益。     

Bioarchaeology: The Lives and Lifestyles of Past People

Skeletons represent the most direct evidence of the biology of past populations, and their study provides insight into health and well-being, dietary history, lifestyle (activity), violence and trauma, ancestry, and demography. These areas help inform our understanding of a range of issues, such as the causes and consequences of adaptive shifts in the past (e.g., foraging to farming, sedentarism), the biological impact of invasion and colonization, differential access to food and other resources (e.g., by gender or status), and conflict and warfare. Central to bioarchaeological inquiry are the interaction between biology and behavior and the role of environment on health and lifestyle. Bioarchaeological analysis has traditionally focused on local settings. However, important perspective on general questions of human adaptation is possible both regionally and globally.     

博物馆实践与博物馆理论的关系——以博物馆展览为视角

博物馆学是一门后设学科,世界各地的博物馆都是用藏品来呈现人类与其环境所发生事物的真实场所,所以它是在产生功能之后才建立起模式与理论。中国博物馆机构的建立虽然是输入的“舶来品”,但是也有着相同的对收藏对象的运作、管理与使用之目的,所以在呈现给公众观赏的展览上,如何达成文化遗产讯息的传承,用观众对展览主题的认知、态度与需求...