From Evangelizing to Modernizing Iranians: The American Presbyterian Mission and its Iranian Students1

This article examines the American Presbyterian education project in Iran from the early nineteenth century to 1940. While most literature on the subject concerns Iranian state-missionary relations and Presbyterian boys' schools in Iran, this article seeks to address the interactions between American Presbyterians, the Iranian state, and students and families of Iranian girls' schools. A study of the Presbyterians' flagship girls' school in Iran Bethel/Nurbakhsh and its sixty-six-year history reveals missionary intentions, tactics, and accomplishments, as well as the adaptations and accommodations pressed upon them by the Iranians they served. Despite the school's promotion of modern American norms and Christian teachings, the young graduates of Iran Bethel/Nurbakhsh developed a strong sense of loyalty to both Iran and Islam, thus turning an evangelist mission into an important feature of the construction of Iranian nationalism and modernity.     

Schooling on the Missionary Frontier: The Hohi Mission Station,New Zealand

Schooling was integral to the process of missionization in many of the places where it occurred throughout the world, yet it has scarcely been explored through the archaeological record. Excavations at Hohi, New Zealand, located a school founded by CMS missionaries in 1816, providing a material record that, in conjunction with documentary sources, enables reconstruction of schooling during the earliest stages of cultural engagement in this part of the Pacific. The motivations of both missionaries and indigenous Maori in the establishment and erratic progress of this school are examined, highlighting the role of indigenous agency in the cultural engagements that played out there.     

从原址保护到转移保护日本高松冢古墓壁画的保护之路

古墓葬壁画的原址保护一直以来是个世界难题,影响因素多,保护管理难.日本的高松冢古墓葬壁画被发现时,色彩亮丽,精雕细作,文化价值极高.采用原址保护方案,几十年间都获得成功,曾是日本文物保护界的骄傲,也是周边乃至西方国家考察日本文物保护的必看项目.2005年,高松冢古墓因无法抑制壁画表面霉菌繁殖,最终放弃了原址保护,并进行了当今最精细、技术最先进、耗资最大的古墓葬解体工程,轰动文物保护界.     

读《北福地:易水流域史前遗址》

2007年初,由文物出版社出版的《北福地:易水流域史前遗址》(下称《北福地》)和大家见面了。中易水是海河水系南拒马河的支流,北福地遗址就坐落在此河北岸,西倚太行山脉,东望河北平原。该遗址在1985和1997年分别有过发掘,围绕着这些田野工作提出的问题,特别是为究明北福地一期遗存中甲类和乙类的关系,经过精     

The Taber Well Site (33HO611): A Middle Woodland Habitation and Surplus Lithic Production Site in the Hocking Valley,Southeastern Ohio

Abstract

From ca. 1500 B.C. through A.D. 300, small indigenous communities in southeastern Ohio incrementally increased their population size, adopted a more sedentary lifeway within recognized territories, formalized the burial of select individuals in mounds, and supplemented their hunting and gathering economy with gardening. Data from the Taber Well site (33HO611) are presented, from which we infer that surplus lithic production was taking place at the site. We suggest that surplus production of utilitarian goods was part of the economy of this and other local communities, especially within an environment of uneven resource distribution. This observation is contextualized within models of Middle Woodland exchange and specialization.     

从张四墩遗址看薛家岗文化的去向

采用ICP等离子体发射光谱方法,测试分析了安徽张四墩遗址和薛家岗遗址出土陶器的微量元素,并运用热膨胀法测定了低温古陶器的烧成温度。在此基础上,结合考古发掘资料,将测试数据作多元统计分析,系统讨论了张四墩遗址不同文化风格古陶的矿料来源,并探讨了张四墩遗址与薛家岗遗址陶器的产地、渊源的关系和制陶工艺方面烧成温度的变化关系,研究结果表明:张四墩遗址反映的文化是一种多元性的文化。一方面,它承继了本地薛家岗文化的部分因素,另一方面,受到东部的良渚文化,特别是北方大汶口文化的强烈影响。     

哲学之为穷理

西方思想源于古希腊的理性传统。西方哲学从一开始就对必然性的知识有一种相当明确的追求,其与因宗教而获得的信仰,及因科学而对客观世界及其规律的认知不尽相同,在追求必然性、唯一性的体系的同时,哲学的兴趣是在探索和我们连在一起的世界的道理,而且还应是在不同的贯通的系统之间的对话,对话的目的不是要达到更高的贯通和共识,而是追求在一定程度上融贯的、不断丰满和变得厚实的思想。     

A Trip to The Lancangjiang River Valley

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The Interview: From Formal to Postmodern

Standard oral history textbooks will contain a chapter on theinterview with the do's and don’ts of basic structuredand unstructured interviewing. This specialist book is intendedto give sufficient critical detail concerning the differenttypes of interview, including their uses, benefits, and shortcomings,to assist all newcomers to the subject. Oral historians arenot likely to need such comprehensive knowledge, but the textis not lengthy and is for the most part clearly written, soit does not become a burden. In fact its brevity     

From Ethnogenesis to Ethnic Segmentation in the Wabash Valley: Constructing Identity and Houses in Great Lakes Fur Trade Society

This study asks the question, “What happens when the colonizers become the colonized?” It examines the social, cultural and political-economic transformations that took place as first the British and then the Americans wrested control of Great Lakes fur trade from the French and their Native American allies. One result was the ethnic segmentation of the fur trade labor market, which attempted to relegate Canadiens to the role of fur trade laborers. In response Canadien traders constructed homes and identities that were constitutive of both their fur trade society heritage and their political-economic position.     

Two Indigenous Evangelists: Moses Tjalkabota and Arthur Wellington Clah

Arthur Wellington Clah was a Tsimshian man on the Pacific north-west coast of Canada, who encountered the missionary, William Duncan, as a young adult at the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Simpson in the 1850s. Moses Tjalkabota was an Arrernte man in central Australia. He was a young boy when he first came into contact with Lutheran missionaries at Hermannsburg mission in the 1880s, and was baptized in 1890. Both these men became Christian evangelists, both preached to their own people, and further afield among neighbouring groups. But here the similarities between them seem to stop. Clah was never part of a mission settlement, maintaining his independence from any established church; while Moses, who became blind as a young man, spent most of his life at Hermannsburg.
  This article examines these two evangelists' understandings of Christianity and how they communicated these understandings to their own and neighbouring peoples. Clah encouraged good behaviour, which conformed with his understanding of Christian precepts; Moses tried to communicate a more abstract form of belief through which happiness and eternal life could be attained.     

从三星堆到金沙村--成都平原青铜文化研究札记

金沙村所出礼器同时也是用以进行宗教活动的法器,商周时期成都平原“政教不分”的宗法制统治秩序业已形成,金沙村遗址具有典型的政教不分化特质。在今成都市西郊形成了以金沙村——黄忠村为轴心的颇具特色的聚落体系,以两为核心各自具有独特的功能。从三星堆到金沙村是同一化内的两个中心间的转移,内在动力是明中心所在地环境的变迁与选择和对更为广阔的资源和财富的向往,这种中心的转移并没有使古蜀明的传统中断或发生转移。     

UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lenggong Valley,Malaysia: A Review of its Contemporary Heritage Management

This article reviews contemporary heritage management through a systematically coded content analysis at one of Malaysia’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley (AHLV). It evaluates the competency of the preliminary Conservation Management Plan (CMP) of AHLV by looking at the accuracy of five distinctive dimensions of the CMP in conveying the information about the sites and management objectives: the legislation related to the heritage conservation and management; the action and implementation of the management strategies; the level of stakeholder’s participation; and, finally, how the CMP integrates local values and ideas into management planning. The results show that contemporary heritage management planning at Lenggong Valley tends to prioritize the conservation of the archaeological values of the sites over other values (i.e. social, historical, and aesthetic values), and that planning has largely been in the hands of governmental agencies with limited involvement from local communities in the decision-making process.