Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong: The Soviet Collapse Revisited

Book reviewed in this article:
Michael Cox (ed.), Rethinking the Soviet collapse: Sovietology, the death of communism and the new Russia     

高原上的生灵们

开车行驶在也许是百年前外国探险家进入青藏高原走过的路,眼前的一切并没有让我感到惊叹不已。一百多年来,青藏高原已经发生了巨大的变化,野牦牛、野驴和羚羊踏出来的道路已经变成了宽敞的公路或者砂石路,抑或是窄小的摩托车道,沿着这样的路我们可以深入到更深更远的无人区,那里曾经是生活在青藏高原的精灵们的家园。     

Fake It Until You Make It: Searching for Mimesis in Buka Village Politics

Contemporary Melanesian communities face difficulties both because of the withdrawal of government services and the continued influence of clientelism within the politics of the distributive state. A notable reaction to both these problems is the organisation of a broad class of groups that may be termed ‘parastatal’: informal organisations, often evanescent, which form around the state and its absence. These may often appear as ‘mimetic’ of recognisable state forms. Characteristically, the analysis of such ‘mimesis’ in Melanesia is framed by doubt that the emulation of state forms extends to the alleged rationality or ‘interiority’ of the state. Here, a case in which villagers in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville undertook to prosecute themselves for non‐payment of school fees is discussed in order to expose the substantial difficulties with understanding parastatal organisation in terms of ‘copying’. The case suggests integration of the villagers into the actually existing state system is much deeper than is often assumed.     

这个火山口不太红

<正>恩戈罗恩戈罗火山形成于距今3000万年的地壳运动,当时的海拔高度媲美乞力马扎罗山,在此后漫长的岁月里,恩戈罗恩戈罗火山不间歇地喷发,伴随大量熔岩涌出,山峰不断地被削平,最后一次喷发发生于25万年前,由于喷发猛烈,锥形的山尖被彻底摧毁,山头从内部塌陷下去,最后形成一个800米高,直径19公里的圆形盆地。相传200多年前,一些马赛部落沿着东非大裂谷     

Tibet As I Saw It

The surest air in the world; and the bluest sky in the world. This is what I firstsaw in Tibet when I got there some 20 years ago.Under the blinding sun-shine were men wrapped up in sheep hides. With chests and arms exposed to the air, they chatted merrily with girls with deeply sun-tanned cheeks.Out of my love for art, I spent one year there. I lived in Tibetan wooden or felt huts, drank buttered tea and qingke barley wine together with my Tibetan friends. With cutting knives and pens, I …     

让人民居住得有尊严——留名世界遗产名录的柏林现代主义公共住宅区

"建筑不仅是与社会最密切相关的艺术,而且它的实现本身就是一个社会结晶。在这一意义上,它是一门完完全全的集体艺术。"——布鲁诺·陶特生活空间是都市化永恒常存的主题。大城市的房价、租金在拥迫的空间压力之下飙升到了令人瞠目咋舌的水平,"蜗居"现象似乎变成了城市发展的常态。然而欧洲     

清代阿克苏局及其铸钱研究——清代新疆铸钱局研究之一

一阿克苏局的设立及其铸钱 (一)阿克苏局的设立 阿克苏铸钱局是在叶尔羌局设立后的第二年,即乾隆二十六年(1761)设立的,它是清政府在新疆设立的第二个铸钱局.因叶尔羌本地不产铜,当初设立叶尔羌局主要是为收缴并销毁原准噶尔普尔钱,即所谓"叶尔羌铸局为销毁原钱计".     

去享受阳光和沙滩吧!

＂海外风光别一家,四时杨柳四时花。寒来暑往无人会,只看桃行纪岁华。＂古人曾这样描述海南岛的四季如春、风景秀美。这里绿树成荫,这里海水湛蓝,这里阳光灿烂,这里暖风熏人,这里是过冬的好地方!冬天了,去海南吧,给自己放个暖暖的假!     

1993年4月20日 人类实现驾船用时最短环游地球

<正>题记:在人类的足迹中,留下很多探险成功的记录,几乎占领了海陆空间的"首次出发"内容,以至热爱大自然的人们开始在探险过程中着眼追求速度。为此我们把法国航海家创下人类驾船用时     

Animal Genetics and African Archaeology: Why It Matters

This article introduces the special issue of African Archaeological Review on the relevance of African livestock genetics to archaeology on the continent. It shows how modern and ancient animal genetic research in Eurasia has substantially revised archaeological scenarios for the origins and spread of food production there. It argues that, in contrast to colleagues in Europe and Asia, Africanist archaeologists have generally been slow to engage in truly collaborative research with archaeogeneticists, with some notable exceptions. It builds a case that animal introductions and domestication are as much social, cultural, and economic processes as they are ecological in nature. Through examples, it outlines some profound selective effects that animal keeping has had on humans themselves. Building on the concepts of taste and embodied practice in Stahl’s (2002) discussion of artifacts and differently scaled encounters with non-local commerce, it develops suggestions for archaeologically studying genetically distinctive domestic animals as part of local and long-distance economic systems. Finally, it comments on the issue’s review articles and offers suggestions for ways to encourage stronger collaboration between archaeologists and genetic researchers.     

用志是篇"大文章"--黑龙江省第二轮修志督察工作有感

修志和用志是地方志部门的两大主业。然而 ,各级地方志部门长期以来普遍存在着修强用弱的状况。本文试图从用志的重要性、用志的服务对象和工作方式、用志工作需加强的几个方面等角度 ,大力倡导用志 ,以此来显示地方志部门的地位、作用和价值。     

构建社会主义和谐社会任重道远

中国正处于经济社会的转型期,生态环境资源与经济社会快速发展的矛盾越来越凸显,经济发展不平衡带来的社会矛盾愈来愈复杂,这严重影响和制约了社会主义和谐社会的构建。如何建设21世纪中国和谐社会,提高经济社会的满意度,提升人们的生存质量是一个重大战略任务。     

The Importance of Attention Diversity and How to Measure It

Studies of political attention often focus on attention to a single issue, such as front‐page coverage of the economy. However, examining attention to a single issue without accounting for the agenda as a whole can lead to faulty assumptions. One solution is to consider the diversity of attention; that is, how narrowly or widely attention is distributed across items (e.g., issues on an agenda or, at a lower level, frames in an issue debate). Attention diversity is an important variable in its own right, offering insight into how agendas vary in their accessibility to policy problems and perspectives. Yet despite the importance of attention diversity, we lack a standard for how best to measure it. This paper focuses on the four most commonly used measures: the inverse Herfindahl Index, Shannon's H, and their normalized versions. We discuss the purposes of these measures and compare them through simulations and using three real‐world datasets. We conclude that both Shannon's H and its normalized form are better measures, minimizing the danger of spurious findings that could result from the less sensitive Herfindahl measures. The choice between the Shannon's H measures should be made based on whether variance in the total number of possible items (e.g., issues) is meaningful.     

Going It Alone: Belarus as the Non-European European State

In the second paper of a symposium devoted to the contemporary status of Belarus, a noted American specialist on the electoral geography of the states of the former Soviet Union challenges assertions in the preceding article (Ioffe and Yarashevich, 2011) that only Russia and Ukraine are valid comparators against which to gauge the success of the Lukashenka model. Expanding the scope of comparison to include the three other countries neighboring Belarus (Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland), he demonstrates that a broader range of policy changes can be considered by its leadership in efforts to limit damage from the economic crisis in Belarus and position the country for renewed growth within a global economic frame-work. Examination of a wide range of social and economic indicators and government policies reveals, however, that in many ways an unreformed Belarus is poorly positioned for competition in an increasingly interconnected world, in which the elements for successful development are quite different from those providing economic stability in the past. A closing section of the paper revisits the debate on whether most Belarusian citizens actually aspire to a more "European" way of life or instead prefer the "Eastern" alignment and reliance on a Russian benefactor whose own economic future looks increasingly uncertain.