COMMUTING IN SMALL AND MIDDLE-SIZE TOWNS OF SOVIET GEORGIA

The author takes issue with the view expressed by M. I. Artamonov, an archeologist, that an ethnos, or ethnic group, represents a social state rather than a process. In the author's view, ethnos IS a vast system in constant development, which tends to be stabilized by endogamy and undermined by exogamy. An ethnic hierarchy is proposed to illustrate the process of ethnogenesis. It ranges from the lowest order of ethnic grouping, a consortium, through subethnos, ethnos and superethnos to mankind as a whole. Each order in the hierarchy is distinguished by particular forms of associations, trends of development and culminating phases. The concept of ethnos as an ongoing process is illustrated with reference to ethnic change in ancient China and in the Ottoman empire.     

盐井,滇藏线上一个想家的符号

<正>很想一开头就描述盐井,这是西藏归来后压在我心底最久的一个地方。在前往西藏的路上,那些颠簸而过的路段,夜宿过的小镇,偶遇的骑行者,擦肩而过的青稞地,还有那些叩着长头往拉萨去的朝圣者深深地栽种在我脑海中。在深夜,或是工作后的一点点空闲时间,只要翻到一路上自己随手拍下的图片,心就会颤动不已。     

BARBARIAN PIRACY AND THE SAXON SHORE: A REAPPRAISAL

Summary.   The tradition of Saxon and other Continental piracy is one of the longest standing tenets of Romano-British studies. It may also be one of its greatest myths, which owes more to its considerable antiquarian pedigree than to any firm basis in fact. This paper reassesses Roman military strategy around the British coast, and suggests that the 'Saxon Shore Forts' and other coastal installations played a more significant economic and logistical role than is often appreciated. Moreover, the idea that each monument fulfilled a single, dedicated function is argued to be too simplistic: instead it is proposed that individual forts served in various capacities during their operational lifetime, and quite possibly not those for which they were originally conceived.     

CHILD PATIENTS,HOSPITALS AND THE HOME IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

Abstract

This article seeks to map out some of the principal pathways to medical care used by the parents of poor children. We focus on the most formal provider of healthcare in eighteenth-century towns, the voluntary general hospitals, but we use these institutions as a prism to consider the way that the treatment of child sickness was managed more generally in five local settings. Utilising eighteenth-century hospital admissions and discharge registers we find that not only were children consistently treated as patients; but that these institutions also operated as part of a wider medical network which included domiciliary care, poor law services, and other medical charities. The boundaries surrounding hospital treatment in eighteenth-century towns were thus considerably more porous than is usually thought, and suggests that they operated as part of a wider medical network accessed by poor families for their children.     

北极潮滋味

相信若千年后,小镇的孤绝与美丽依然是一道北极生活无法错过的风景。与南极不同,北极地区更靠近人类发达国家,因此人类在北极活动很早就有记载,并延续至今：比如世代居住在北极冰雪天地的原住民爱斯基摩人,以及前几个世纪从欧洲大陆来此专业从事狩猎的北欧人,相对来说,北极地区人气更旺。参加天霞客北极包船游途中,我们就拜访了格陵兰岛东部的一个小镇,名字叫做Ittoqqortoormiit,也是东格陵兰岛最北端有人类常年居住的小镇,地理位置达到了北纬70度左右。     

鲜花小镇的中国评委

有鲜花、有欢笑,有浓浓的人情味……在看似不起眼的小镇安娜保罗娜,我收获了荷兰最甜美的记忆。     

CHARTERS,NORTHUMBRIA AND THE UNIFICATION OF ENGLAND IN THE TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES

Abstract

This article examines the relationship between the clergy and their secular neighbours in the diocese of Durham in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In particular, it seeks to uncover the extent to which the two spheres experienced a shared sense of identity, in a period when that relationship was being recalibrated as the full impact of the Reformation was making itself felt. For example, the novelty of clerical marriage, within and without the clerical community, as well as oppositional doctrinal and confessional outlooks, were superimposed on to existing associations and networks. In other respects interaction between the clergy and lay society fluctuated between harmonious and positive to contentious and damaging. Meanwhile, preconceptions about the diocese are re-examined in the context of this relationship.     

龙武迎春 当然可以高姿态

<正>龙武镇地处云南省石屏县北部山区,主要居住着彝、汉、哈尼等民族,这里以欢快的民族民间歌舞和精美的民族手工刺绣、服饰和剪纸艺术而著称。每年逢农历正月十六后的第一个街天,小镇的人们都要自发地举行迎春会活动,活动中最精彩的当数踩高跷了。     

ON THE ORIENTATION OF ROMAN TOWNS IN ITALY

Summary.   Several Roman writers report on the existence of a town foundation ritual, inherited from the Etruscans, which allegedly included astronomical references. However, the possible existence of astronomical orientations in the layout of Roman towns has never been considered in a systematic way. As a first step in this direction, the orientation of 38 Roman towns in Italy is studied here. Non-random orientation patterns emerge from these data, calling for further research in this field.     

洗尽奢华,让心灵栖息 江苏震泽、黎里古镇游记

<正>读了一本《中国最美的100风情小镇》,便初识了苏州吴江的震泽与黎里古镇。近来偶遇吴江市文物局的好友,闲谈中得知她2004年主持了震泽江南传统商贾名宅"师俭堂"的文物修缮工程,作为一位资深的古建专家,谈到师俭堂时她总是不能抑     

东经121°08’北纬29°13’到渔镇石浦做个渔民

<正>东海之滨,象山半岛的最南端,将海洋文化保存最原始的古镇——石浦无时不在的大洋气息三月三踏沙滩,海钓节,开渔节,海鲜节海浪声伴着浓郁的海鲜味让人痴迷,石浦的丰富,不知从何说起……伴着海浪声,让我们到这里做个彻头彻尾的渔民