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Nancy Scheper-Hughes and John Gledhill, Neo-cannibalism: Anthropologists in the Amazon
Francesca Merlan and Ian S. McIntosh, Reconciliation: The People's choice?
J.C.H. King and Laura Peers, 'Native museums'     

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Simon Coleman and Hildi Mitchell, Pilgrimage: Bringing 'Structure' Back In
Amitav Ghosh and H.L. Seneviratne, Buddhist Monks and Ethnic Politics
Simone Abram and David Shankland, Anthropology Versus Science?     

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David MacDougall on Visual Anthropology: Digital Video:
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Jay Ruby, p.23
Sarah Pink, p.23
Joshka Wessels, p.24
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David MacDougall, p.24
S. Coleman & B. Simpson on Anthropology And Education: Anthropology 'Outside In':
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Philip Whitehead, p.25
Simon Coleman and Robert Simpson, p.26
David Mills, p.26     

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Richard Tapper on Anthropology and (The) Crisis in Afghanistan
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Glenn Bowman, p.19     

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Abstract

This article examines the attempt to modernize the Italian system of education which is being made by the present government. This policy should be seen in the framework of the general attempt to meet the requirements imposed by the European Union on its members (the Maastricht treaty), and more generally to meet the European need for homogeneity among systems of education, matching the Europe‐wide labour market already in place. In the past, the Italian system of education missed a number of opportunities to keep up with the changing experiments in other European countries (especially at post‐secondary and university levels); therefore the amount of change required is now substantial. The measures taken by the Minister of Education (who is also Minister of Universities and Scientific Research) attempt to decentralize the decision‐making process, give more autonomy to individual institutes, and leave the central public administration (the ministries) the roles of coordination and evaluation. This model has been followed by the majority of European countries. Its impact on the not so dynamic Italian system of education will produce interesting debates and confrontations.     

Iceland: A Comment

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North-West England was the site of Britain's first canal and of one of the last true canal warehouses. The Duke's Warehouse in the Castlefield Canal Basin in Manchester was the first canal warehouse to have the classic design features of internal canal arms, multi-storeys, split level loading, terracing and water powered hoists, and was built between 1769 and 1771. The Great Northern Warehouse, in the centre of Manchester, was the last of the monumental road, rail and canal interchanges to be built in the Victorian period. Finished in 1898, it marked the close of the canal warehouse tradition and the beginning of motorised road transport storage. Between the two buildings were nearly 130 years of innovation and change. With at least 58 surviving canal warehouses across the region, from Kendal in the north to Bunbury in the south, North-West England contains one of the largest, and most important, groups of canal warehouses in Europe (Figures 1 and 2). As general purpose redistribution centres they were a vital element in feeding the rapidly growing industrial urban populations of the region. Furthermore, their design influenced the building of the first railway warehouses, and later the textile warehouse, and although the canals were superseded by the railway, the canal warehouse remained an important element of the transport economy until the arrival of road haulage in the 1920s. This paper is based upon research undertaken by the author in 2000 and 2001 as part of the Tameside Archaeological Survey. This is a landscape archaeology project funded by Tameside MBC and undertaken on their behalf by the University of Manchester Archaeological Unit.     

查士丁尼大瘟疫述论

公元542—543年发生在君士坦丁堡的大瘟疫是一场史无前例的大灾难,它导致了拜占廷帝国乃至整个地中海世界的人口数量锐减和生产力水平的剧降。为了探寻这次大瘟疫的真相,有必要重新研究当时史家对大瘟疫传播情况的记载,对瘟疫的起源和传播路线、瘟疫的症状和传染介质、死亡人数、政府对策及大瘟疫的影响几方面进行深入的探讨。