Navigation and the seventeenth-century draining of the Fens

Draining the Fens in the seventeenth century led to serious conflicts with navigation, conflicts which have not been properly understood in some important literature. Contrary to common belief, Vermuyden's scheme did incorporate navigation locks at Denver and elsewhere. Trade at King's Lynn and over the inland waterways did expand during the second half of the century. These facts lead to a re-assessment of the drainage/navigation interests, focussing on specific issues such as the funding arrangements for drainage and the damage to embankments by horses hauling vessels. Hence arise further questions about the understanding and motives underlying the public positions adopted by stakeholders.     

Settler Life Writing,Georgic Traditions and Models of Environmental Sustainability

The purpose of this article is to reveal that the settler life writing preserves the all-but-forgotten wisdom of traditional mixed-farming methods. My study focuses on the farm logs or journals kept by three members of the Sheppard family, British immigrants who settled in southern Alberta in the late nineteenth century to establish ranches. Pioneers such as the Sheppards imagined the prairies as an Eden where they could lead prosperous lives and radically transformed the prairies, changing the nature of that life form. I explore the Sheppard journals through a lens shaped by Virgil’s Georgics. There is value in the Georgics as a model of sustainability; thus, such analysis reveals a traditional, cyclical agrarian pattern in the journals from which emerges an ethic of sustainability.     

The Folk Life of Afghanistan.

THOMAS BEWICK, Wood engraver, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1753–1828. Greenock, The Signet Press, 1956. Pp. 23. 2s. 6d. Reviewed by W. B.

ULSTER FOLKLIFE: Issued by the Committee on Ulster Folklife and Traditions. Belfast, 1955. Reviewed by Violet Alford.

HAFOD 16 (A Medieval Welsh Medical Treatise). By IDA B. JONES. Études celtiques, 7, pp. 46–75. 1955. [Offprint.]. Reviewed by Wilfrid Bonser.

COLONIAL BALLADS. By HUGH ANDERSON. Victoria, Rams Skull Press, l955. Pp. 157. 29s. 6d. (Austr.). Reviewed by Margaret Dean-Smith.

SEVEN CENTURIES OF POPULAR SONG. A Social History of Urban Ditties. By REGINALD NETTEL. Phoenix House, 1956. Pp. 248. 25s. Reviewed by Margaret Dean-Smith.

THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS AND THEIR GUESTS. By CHARLES SELTMAN. Max Parrish, 1956. Pp. 208. + 16 plates+map. 17s. 6d. Reviewed by J.M.     

与传统对话:民间文化的当代观照——"第五届民间文化青年论坛会议"综述

2007年8月3日,"民间文化青年论坛"第五届会议在京召开。本次会议由民间文化青年论坛和中国俗文学学会主办,中国社会科学院民族文学研究所、文学所民间     

红山峪村村民生活的浓描与实录--我读《红山峪村民俗志》

中国民俗志的写作在二十世纪八十年代以来是有条不紊、有规律可循的,它与同时期的中国民俗学的教科书采取了同一体系,一般都是物质民俗、精神民俗、岁时节令、人生仪礼等及其细目的罗列铺陈。除了条目的顺序不同或根据当地资料的多少,每个条目内容的详略程度不同之外,不同时期出版的不同地方的不同人编撰的民俗志在这些条目上基本上没有什么大的变化。这应当算是这些年来中国民俗志写作的特点之一。     

冰雪天路 东蒙民俗掠影与历史幽思

从民族迁徙的角度看,历史上有许多族群都经历了从西伯利亚森林出发向南,走过呼伦贝尔草原、翻越大兴安岭,最终融入中原的过程。这条民族迁徙与融合的冰雪天路对于中国的历史与文化影响深远。     

从身边生活看家乡的民俗文化

一、家乡民俗学研究与《土族口头传统与民俗文化》"家乡研究"是中国人类学的特色领域。迄今为止,中国学者蜚声国际学界的几本人类学著作中,"家乡研究"作品占据着最为耀眼的位置。如:费孝通先生     

《民间叙事的生命树》及有关学术通信

稻田浩二教授来函(一) 尊敬的刘魁立先生: 您好吗?北京是否快到很冷的冬天了? 在韩国,能听到您发表很动人的论文,又有了在饭店里跟您好好谈话的机会,日子过得很好. 我在11月7日研究生的课上给学生们介绍了您发表的论文<民间叙事的生命树>,同时与大家一起学习.我已经拜读过好几次了,每次都有新的发现和该学习的地方.     

Competing Traditions and the Birth of Texts

Doctor Ingrid Hjelm's new book, Jerusalem's Rise to Sovereignty: Zion and Gerizim in Competition. Ingrid Hjelm . T&T Clark International, New York: 2004, raises a number of interesting issues concerning the relationship between the Samaritans and the inhabitants of Judea during the Hasmonean period. Though her intention is to demonstrate the conflict origins of the literature treasured by those respective communities, and the divergent paths taken by those tradents, her ideas have further reaching implications for interpretation of the Hebrew Bible and the dates to be assigned to those materials. This essay probes Hjelm's new book, enquiring after its wider implications, especially for those interested in the rise of Biblical texts.