心灵之旅

<正> 旅游是行走之乐,结识天南海北的朋友,同样是旅行中快乐之事。每当旅行回来,认真梳理记忆,总被一些旅途中经历的人或事所感动,如同打开一扇扇心灵之窗,为他们的经历而感动;倾听他们的心声,又丰富着我们自己的人生。探奇山水是乐事,探索人的内心世界更有无穷乐趣。每一个人都是一个不同的世界。我想,从这个意义上说,旅游还     

Throwing Behaviour and the Mass Distribution of Geological Hand Samples,Hand Grenades and Olduvian Manuports

This research examines the efficiency of impact energy delivered by a thrown rock and the relationship between the mechanics of throwing and how rocks are chosen. This choice tends to lead to a Poisson distribution of mass with different means for men and women. These values are reflected in the mass of hand samples selected by geologists, in the throwing stones made in the last century by the Nuie Islanders, in the sport of handball and in the design of hand grenades. When the mass distributions of manuports from Olduvai and Koobi Fora are examined two very different mass distributions can be seen: one indicating a probable selection by larger creatures of almost modern human size, the other by creatures that were far smaller. Observations of Olduvian cobble tools indicate that their mass distribution is similar to the manuports hoarded by the larger hominids. A simple engineering model links the mass distribution of selected rocks to body size and it is suggested that this technique can be used to reveal sexual differences in cobble tool making and any differences in body size during the development of the Olduvian industry or at distinct geographical sites. Perhaps the most intriguing use of this technique, however, is in the examination of the mass and form of stone deposits laid down before stone tools were manufactured. A specific clustering would indicate, within a certain degree of statistical probability, the deliberate selection and hoarding by a hominid species that used the systematic hurling of rocks as a behavioural strategy. In this case, stone tools would represent an improvement on an object of the same mass and material that had been part of an earlier culture.     

怒族手工制陶术调查

云南大学对怒族手工制陶进行了调查,对其制陶工具与制陶过程以及陶器的种类与用途作了详细的观察与记录.这些实地调查资料对研究我国古代手工制陶术的发展具有重要的参考价值.     

归心尚湖——陌上花开 归心尚湖

如果说白墙黑瓦、小桥流水的苏杭一带,是一幅天然的江南水墨画。那么,位于苏杭一侧的常熟,则是画上被晕染开来的那一点边际。虽然着色不多,但却给人更大的想像空间。如果要给常熟的江南意象绘上一笔,那么一定是尚湖。江南是离不开水的,没有了水,就少了灵动。常熟是不能没有尚湖的,这里的城、这里的山、这里的田野村庄,只有在尚湖的润泽下,才有了灵秀和风雅,才有了江南的韵昧。无数的文人墨客曾经停留在尚湖,     

Symbols, Myth-Making, and Identity: The Red Hand of Ulster in Late Nineteenth-Century Paterson, New Jersey

Symbols are manipulated to express social identity and to reaffirm or create a sense of place. Smoking pipes recovered from late nineteenth-century privies in the Dublin Section of Paterson, New Jersey, bear the symbol of the Red Hand of Ulster. Today, the Red Hand of Ulster is ubiquitous on Unionist murals throughout Northern Ireland symbolizing Northern Irish Protestant identity. Originally, the Red Hand symbolized the dawn of the Irish High King of Ulster. In late-nineteenth-century Paterson, it is argued here, the symbol was embedded in ethnic politics involving the Irish Diaspora and Irish–American identity developed through the Gaelic revival and Irish–American organizations and labor unions.     

Davies,John Paton,Jr.,China Hand: An Autobiography

John Paton Davies's story is familiar to students of China-U.S.relations.Born to missionary parents in Sichuan,Davies joined the Foreign Service in 1931 after his itinerant undergraduate years.Through language training in Beijing and postings in Kunming,Shenyang,and Hankou,Davies built a reputation as one of the State Department's most capable China hands.When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor,he was working at State's Far Eastern Affairs desk.Eager to return to China—or just get out of Washington—Davies urged Major General Joseph Stilwell,who was rumoured to be leading an American military mission to Chongqing,to take him along.Davies got his wish a few months later and spent most of the wartime in China as Stilwell's civilian aid.After the war,Davies,who had predicted that Mao Zedong's Communists would triumph over Jiang Jieshi's Nationalists once the Japanese surrendered,became a target of Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist accusations.Secretary of State John Foster Dulles fired him in 1954 after his ninth appearance before the State Department's Loyalty Security Board.Disgusted with the politics in America,Davies and his family left the country and lived many years in Peru.Though he returned to America in the 1960s and wrote on foreign affairs,Davies never again served in government.     

乡情凝聚人心

飘色、花灯、剪纸、乡曲、乡祭……大庙会凝聚乡情凝聚人心。岭南人拯救还原民俗的同时也善用民俗——呼唤情感回归建设美好家园。 考察非物质化遗产,不能不考察大庙会。在普查中,大庙会被分类为化空间。这个空间是古庙、老店、戏曲、手工技艺、宗教信仰、饮食、民间舞蹈、年画、武术、杂技……的集合体,根本就是一幅幅生动的《清明上河图》。 大庙会仅仅是乡间民俗的集合体吗？我们在调查中似乎还找到了另一种回答——大庙会是乡情的最好的载体。在人的所有社会情感当中,乡情是最为温暖柔软的部分,当心中涌起这种美好情感的时候,眼前流动的,往住就是大庙会的某个画面了,一张剪纸、一盏花灯、一缕乡曲、一次乡祭……[编按]     

The Development of Hand Spinning Wheels

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It has long been noted that there was a decline in the standards of English embroidery from the mid-fourteenth century onwards. A combination of the Black Death, wars, overseas competition and economic stresses have all been recognised as possible reasons for the loss in quality of these embroideries. This article analyses the production techniques employed by artists/designers and embroiderers during the declining period of Opus Anglicanum, a style of embroidery typical of the late medieval period, which was almost always professional work. The discussion focuses on two lower panels of the pillar orphreys on the Whalley Abbey altar frontal, which date from around 1400 and belong to Towneley Hall Museum and Art Gallery, Burnley, UK. The article suggests that similarities in the design of the two panels provide a glimpse into the time-saving solutions developed by embroiderers to produce Opus Anglicanum as its manufacturing quality deteriorated.     

The Hand Writing on the Screen

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In this article, researchers evaluate the empirical performance of the Mincer earnings equation, which has been the benchmark model for assessment of wage profiles since 1974. The analysis concerns workers in the manufacturing industry in three countries before 1900. The Mincer equation must be adjusted with respect to functional form in order to capture the wage profiles of past industrial workers. The quadratic spline consistently provides the best fit, while the standard quadratic produces misleading estimates of wage changes and gender wage gaps. These conclusions hold across contexts, for men and women, and for both age and experience profiles. The results have methodological relevance for estimating historical wage profiles and also have implications for the assessment of gender wage gaps in the past.