Cargo Cult Horror

Anthropological analyses of cargo cults offer certain plots alongside ethnographic detail. Many such accounts assume one or the other of three common storylines. Cargo cults have been plotted as bildungsroman, as horror story, and as carnival. Bildungsroman cargo narratives suggest that cargo is good but culting is bad. Carnivalesque accounts reverse this polarity to celebrate culting while disparaging the dangers of cargo. The horror storyline laments both cargo and culting. Over the past fifty years, shifting appreciations of modernity, technology, and progress have reshaped the stories in which cargo cults get accounted: Modernity's cargo bildungsroman has given way to postmodern horror.     

真武信仰在近世中国的传播

真武是宋代以来中国最重要的神明之一,不仅屡受帝王敕封,更深受民众信仰,建立不少祠庙,是具有全国性声名的大神。每年一到农历三月三日,各地信仰者不是举办庆典,就是到圣地"武当山"朝圣进香,形成奇观。本文首先利用官方档案、地方志书、经卷等资料,对宋、元真武信仰的重大面向进行探讨,同时论及她与梓潼信仰、扶鸾的关系。其次,将从经卷流传的角度另辟蹊径,使用玄帝降笔文与善书等关于真武的另类经卷,探讨元代以来真武信仰传布的某些面向,尤其着重探明明清武当山进香念"无量寿佛"的由来。     

中国龙王信仰的发生与定型

中国龙王信仰的基础是先秦时代的龙崇拜,之后在佛教影响、民间创造及统治者的推动下不断变化并在宋代最终定型。这一过程涉及三个重要节点:第一个节点是龙神信仰的形成,涉及龙从兽形到人形、祈雨形式从巫术到祭祀的变化,佛教在其中发挥了重要作用;第二个节点是"龙王"名称的采用及其信仰的普及,宋代统治者出于集权目的的封赐促成了这一变化;第三个节点是海龙王信仰的形成,涉及四海龙王对传统四海神的取代,这一时期龙王地位的上升、佛教影响的扩大都起到了助推作用。     

海神、海神信仰与祭祀仪式--山东沿海渔民的海神信仰与祭祀仪式调查

山东省是中国古代文明的发祥地之一,历来有“齐鲁之邦,礼仪之乡”的美誉。境内既有绵延起伏的群山丘陵,又有坦荡辽阔的平原大川,中华民族的摇篮黄河从山东人海,五岳之首的泰山雄踞鲁中南,西南部大运河沿湖区穿过山东,东部还有三千里的海岸线。悠久灿烂的历史文化,复杂多样的地理环境,形成了山东民俗古朴淳厚、丰富多彩的特点。     

The Highgate Cemetery Vampire Hunt: The Anglo-American Connection in Satanic Cult Lore

The purpose of this paper is the study and analysis of a fairly widespread false idea. I mean to take seriously one of these shreds of lore that are by and large known to everyone, and try to understand the traits that make it seductive and convincing. It seems to me that the main problem set by false ideas is that they are rooted in the collective consciousness.

The false idea chosen as an example asserts that the image of the murderer is retained on a victim's retina after death and can be retrieved through photography. In tribute to Edgar Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, I have chosen to designate this assertion as “The Tell-Tale Eye.” Our journey through this false idea will lead us towards a legend built around a technical process, that of photography, but also towards the seductiveness of a magical thought, in which it is the victim's own body that accuses the murderer.     

狄奥尼索斯崇拜探析

狄奥尼索斯崇拜的起源地在希腊本土,流行于底层民众中间,只是在后来的发展中受到了东方文明尤其是古埃及文明的影响,增加了某些神秘主义的因素。公元前7—前6世纪,在希腊民主政治的进程中,狄奥尼索斯崇拜因为远离贵族控制,成为平民与贵族政治斗争中的一种有力的思想武器,由“边缘”走入了城邦的“中心”,并在民主体制下得到了充分发展。狄奥尼索斯崇拜也因此承载了宗教内涵和政治内涵。     

与野生动物的美丽邂逅

<正>在藏族民歌中,人们认为苍鹰纵然飞过雪山也会折翅,那里应该是天神栖居的地方。占据中国版图1/8的青藏高原,是除南、北极之外的地球第三极。千百万年以来,对于外界而言,这雄踞高亢的雪域高原一直充满着神秘的悬想。除了神,喜马拉雅双臂环拥的,还有着怎样的珍宝与生灵?优越的地理位置使保护区拥有多个自然地理区域的珍稀濒危物种,物种多样性非常丰富。目前保护区已     

Lithuanian Linguistic Nationalism and the Cult of Antiquity

Abstract. To a large extent, the Lithuanian nationalist movement of the late nineteenth century was founded on language. Although this is typical of many nationalist movements, the Lithuanian case was special because of the amount and type of attention that was focused on the Lithuanian language, and the qualities that were ascribed to that language. This article discusses the influence that scholarly research into the Indo-European language family, in combination with the romantic nationalism typical of the nineteenth century, exerted on Lithuanian nationalists, and considers the symbolic importance of the Lithuanian language for this movement as a whole.     

野性非洲之动物“五趣”——非洲“五丑”:动物的别样风采

<正>非洲"五丑"通常指的是生活在非洲大草原上的斑鬣狗、疣猪、皱脸秃鹫、非洲秃鹳和角马。这五种动物,没有"五大"的高大威猛,没有"五小"玲珑可爱,也没有"五怪"的奇特灵动,它们的外表谈不上光鲜,给人们留下的印象或阴险狡诈,或憨直愚笨,渐渐的,这五种动物,就被冠以"五丑"的标签,而在他们并不算靓丽的外表下,却有着不为人知的生存智慧,称得上是动物界的"丑星"。