Wednesday,April 20th, 1910

In 1963 a questionnaire on the subject of local funeral customs was circulated by the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, which elicited important information on a range of traditions associated with death. In this paper, accounts of the custom of knocking over the chairs on which the coffin rested immediately prior to the funeral are analysed as a symbol of transference from the natural to the other world.     

民族、宗教与20世纪爱尔兰问题

北爱尔兰的民族问题是英国殖民时代留下的遗产。由于历史的原因,爱尔兰两个民族在20世纪爆发了激烈的冲突。其巨大的宗教、化差异,加上英国在爱尔兰问题上的高压政策,使得爱尔兰问题长期得不到解决。     

Humbler Craft: Rafts of the Egyptian Nile, 17th to 20th Centuries AD

Accounts and images created by foreign travellers on the Egyptian Nile over the past four centuries indicate the widespread use of rafts and floats for both local and long‐distance travel. Many of the materials employed survive poorly in archaeological deposits, or are otherwise easily overlooked as components of river‐craft: moreover, several of these raft‐types were built for a single journey or season, then dismantled. These travellers' accounts and images alert us to much humbler vessels than the well‐preserved wooden boats of the Pharaonic elite which have so far commanded the attention of maritime archaeologists. © 2010 The Author     

对20世纪法国知识分子的系统审视－－读《20世纪法国知识分子的历程》

在当今社会 ,知识分子这一特殊的社会群体的地位与作用日渐彰显。因此 ,对知识分子的研究 ,自 2 0世纪中叶以来 ,始终是国外人文社会科学领域的热点之一。其中 ,不少外国史学家亦纷纷涉足这方面的研究。尤其是在富有史学传统 ,而且其当代史学亦始终执国际史坛之牛耳的法国 ,在2 0世纪的晚期 ,在社会文化史热日趋升温与政治史重新焕发生机的大背景下 ,甚至诞生了一门新的史学分支———知识分子史。更有甚者 ,在以让 -弗朗索瓦·西里纳利为代表的一大批年富力强的史学家的共同努力下 ,以研究 2 0世纪法国知识分子为主要内容的知识分子史亦已…     

Front and Back Covers. Volume 20 Number 1. February 2004

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CONFLICT IN NEPAL
This photomontage, taken from the cover of the journal Ekkaison Shatabdi ('The 21st Century'), issue 58, March 2002, shows the bodies of dead policemen in front of the destroyed palace of Mangalsen, Achham, in western Nepal. The ancient royal capital of the kingdom of Achham, now the headquarters of Achham district, was attacked on 17 February 2002 by Nepal's Maoist insurgents. The ensuing battle between the guerrillas and state security forces was one of the bloodiest in the eight-year-old civil conflict which began when the Maoists declared a 'people's war' in 1996. According to the Nepali Defence Ministry, 57 soldiers, 49 policemen, and five civilians were killed, and scores of Maoist rebels were also reported dead. Over 8000 people — Maoists, security personnel and civilians — have been killed since the conflict began, and an alarming rate of disappearances and other human rights violations committed by both the Maoists and the security forces makes Nepal one of the world's most rapidly escalating hotspots.
Anthropology Today extends recent focus on anthropology and terrorism, war and conflict with two articles looking at the situation in Nepal. Marie Lecomte-Tilouine (translated by David Gellner) considers the coincidence of regicide and Maoist rebellion by looking at the continuities between royal and Maoist symbolism. Judith Pettigrew, Sara Shneiderman and Ian Harper address the ethical issues of conducting ethnographic research in a country such as Nepal where violent conflict unexpectedly engulfs one's fieldsites and compels radical changes to fieldwork methodology.