Class,Caste, Gender,and the Materiality of Cement Houses in India

Recently, large parts of India and the global South have experienced a rapid transformation from mud to cement houses, which has been promoted by governments and cement companies for its positive impacts on household socioeconomic status and gender inequalities. But we know little else about how different communities are participating in house transformation. In this paper, I study the embodied and affective dimensions of house transformation in Himachal Pradesh, India. I argue that house transformation is also the transformation of traditional gender and caste identities into new middle-class identities which benefits some social groups, like upper-caste women and Dalit men, but not others like Dalit women along intersectional lines. My work extends literature in infrastructure studies and urban political ecology by highlighting how the materiality of infrastructures interacts with everyday dimensions of difference to reproduce the marginalisation of historically oppressed groups along intersectional lines of class, caste, and gender.     

Explorations in Rome, 1871, 1872

The identification of an eighteenth-century plan and a set of nineteenth-century photographs, in conjunction with a new survey of its remains, has permitted the reinterpretation of an early eleventh-century building at Avranches, in the Département of Manche, Normandy. This has shown that it measured 37 m by at least 27 m, was at least 16 m high, and that it can be considered as a donjon or ‘keep’, or, as now more usually termed, a ‘tour maîtresse’ or ‘great tower’. The remains of the building and its interpretation are described, with the aid of plans and the key material referred to above. Among the largest ‘great towers’ known (at least in plan) and one of the three known pre-Conquest examples in the Duchy, it is of great significance to the rapidly advancing study of this class of building.     

安徽马鞍山雨山银塘东晋墓发掘简报

2009年,安徽省马鞍山市博物馆抢救性发掘了马鞍山雨山银塘东晋墓。该墓是一座带甬道的单室砖墓,已严重破坏,但二十多件随葬品时代特征明显。出土的陶俑佐证了六朝时期男女衣著没有严格界限区分的特点,棺床和祭台构筑形式为研究长江下游东晋"凸"字形砖室墓形制演变提供了珍贵的实物资料。     

试论辽宋夏金时期的民族史观

辽宋夏金时期是我国史学中民族史观发展的重要阶段。由于正统观念的变化与史书求实风气的影响,宋代民族史观在理论形式与史学实践中都表现出相当多的积极因素;但同时由于民族矛盾的激化,历史上华夷之辨的观念也出现了更为理论化的形态。辽、夏、金作为以武力建国的少数民族政权,在吸纳汉族文化的同时,本民族文化也取得长足进展,与此相应,其民族史观也体现出新的时代特征。     

Effigy of a Knight of the Fifteenth Century,Dug up in the Churchyard at Minster,Isle of Sheppey,in 1833, and now Preserved in the Church There

Twenty years after the R.C.H.M. volume Shielings and Bastles drew attention to the survival of many bastles, thick-walled defensible upper-floor houses of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, characteristic of the Anglo-Scottish Border. Recent fieldwork in Northumberland has shown that bastles (the earliest vernacular house type to survive in any numbers within the county) also exist in considerable numbers in some areas slightly further afield, and notably in Allendale, to the south of the Tyne. Seven Allendale bastles or bastle-derivative houses are described in detail, and another twenty-seven listed in a gazetteer. The origins of bastles are discussed, and some possible medieval antecedents suggested; the fabric and morphology of the buildings are then considered, and various groupings—such as ‘extended bastles’ and groups around a common yard—examined. The continuance of the bastle tradition is seen in bastle-derivative houses of the later seventeenth century; the date at which conventional ground-floor houses were re-established varies from valley to valley.     

Symbols of rank,leadership, and power in traditional cultures

Headmen, chiefs, kings, and emperors, the titled leaders of numerous traditional cultures in the Pacific Islands, sub-Saharan Africa and lowland South America, wear necklaces of large canines from the most powerful and ferocious animals in their respective environments. These formal badges of office symbolize their power, leadership, rank and authority in society. This generalized theme is predicated on the thesis that a leader's power is equivalent to that of the animal from which the teeth were extracted; that is, cultural man has borrowed a model from nature on which to base his power. The fact that humankind uses this same conceptual model in numerous places around the world indicates that the human mind functions in much the same way everywhere. Regarding the method used in this work, in each example presented, the presence of a visual image is considered fundamental to the overall process of gathering documentary evidence in support of this thesis. In each instance too, published data are used to confirm the title, culture, place, and, where possible, the name of the individual wearning the tooth necklace, and the circumstances under which it was worn. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

河南灵宝市西坡遗址墓地2005年发掘简报

西坡遗址位于河南省灵宝市阳平镇西坡村西北,坐落于铸鼎原南部,北距黄河约8公里,南距秦岭山脉北坡约4公里,东、西两侧分别为沙河的支流夫夫河与灵湖河,地势西南高、东北低,海拔456～475米,四周多为断     

南京高校民国建筑的历史风貌与保护更新

南京高校民国建筑是民国建筑中的一种特殊类型,其大多数为建筑艺术之精品,且蕴含着深厚的校园历史价值。随着南京高校校园更新改造规模的不断扩大,校内民国建筑的空间形态及历史风貌均遭到了不同程度的破坏。如何在保护民国建筑历史风貌的同时开展好校园更新活动,必须深入研究论证。《威尼斯宪章》界定了保护更新的内涵与外延,南京高校民国建筑的保护更新活动应在原真性与完整性理念的指导下,结合划分保护区、制定详细计划及引入城市设计理念等手段拓展保护工作的广度与深度。     

甘肃武威磨嘴子汉墓发掘简报

磨嘴子汉墓群位于甘肃省武威市凉州区新华乡磨嘴子村,20世纪50～90年代,在此进行过数次大规模发掘,共发掘清理西汉至东汉时期墓葬近百座,出土王杖诏书令册简等重要文物。2005年11月,武威市文物考古研究所在磨嘴子村清理了一座汉代墓葬。此墓为斜坡式墓道土洞墓,墓室平面呈长方形,中后部有一木棺,棺内墓主身上残留丝织品。随葬器物以木器为主,也有少量陶器、铜器、漆器等。这座墓葬的年代应为西汉末至东汉初期,墓内出土的丝织品,为研究汉代纺织技术提供了新资料。