The Tripolye culture: Centenary of research

The Tripolye culture of the sixth and fifth millennia B.P., which spread over the territory of what is today Ukraine and Moldova, holds a special place in the prehistoric archaeology of southeastern Europe. This major European culture of the Copper Age existed for about 1500 years and survived as a rudiment of painted pottery cultures until the beginning of the Bronze Age. Its archaeological embodiment is highly diverse, expressive, and distinctive. Forming the eastern fringe of the Balkan-Danube early farming cultures, the Tripofye culture came into close contact with the world of the nomadic steppe herders, and both influenced their culture and was, in turn, influenced by them. This article attempts to synthesize the Tripofye culture archaeology on the occasion of the recent centenary of its investigation.     

深化广东地域文化的研究

珠江奔流,浩浩荡荡。日寸间流逝,却悄然无声。日寸间逝而不返,湮灭生灵,带走风物,留下的只是文化遗迹和一些经典。无论何种地域都是如此。     

三星堆文化源流考略

分析三星堆出土物的特征,认为三星堆化是古巴族鱼凫部所建古蜀国的遗存。他们与古彝族、土家、布依、苗族有亲缘关系。三星堆化的风格与良渚化、石家河化有相似性。     

大宛考古学文化初探

大宛 ,中亚古国名 ,首见于《史记·大宛列传》。目前学界普遍认为其所在地即今乌兹别克斯坦的费尔干纳盆地。该国自西汉以来 ,我国史书屡有记载 ,南北朝时名为洛那、破洛那 ,唐代名为宁远。该古国和历代的中原王朝均有着密切的联系。囿于材料所限 ,我国学界对其研究仅限于史学方面 ,目前还没有从考古学方面来认识大宛的研究性成果。近来笔者在撰写博士论文时 ,从苏联考古学者的发掘材料中发现了一种考古学文化 ,从其时代和分布地域来看 ,均与我国史书中记载的大宛相符。故而不揣冒昧 ,介绍如下 ,并稍作分析研究。望同行批评指正。一2 0世纪…     

谈满族家谱研究与民族历史文化知识教育的关系

满族家谱研究有益于对八旗军事经济、民族民俗研究、民族生活生存状况研究、民族发展演绎研究,家谱研究可以推动民族文化特别是民族姓氏变化研究、家谱研究可以挖掘历史上的社会经济生产力条件下的民族社会心理和社会人文价值判断的研究.     

俄罗斯学者关于埃文人的历史文化研究历程

埃文人是俄罗斯西伯利亚东部和远东地区的少数民族,属通古斯语族北支部分.随着俄国对东北亚地区土地的占领和统治的进程,俄国学者对埃文人的考察与研究也随之展开,本文概述了沙俄、苏联和俄罗斯时期学者的考察与研究工作,并介绍了埃文人历史文化的主要特点.     

延安时期中共传统文化研究与抗日民族统一战线的巩固

延安时期中国共产党人充分认识到传统文化的重要作用,重视对其研究、弘扬,以宣传和巩固抗日民族统一战线。其一,重视宣传中华民族源远流长的传统文化,提高民族自尊心和自信心;其二,重视利用传统文化所特有的民族认同感,增强中华民族的凝聚力;其三,重视对历史上民族战争经验教训的研究。作为巩固抗日民族统一战线的重要借鉴。这些活动对维护和巩固抗日民族统一战线,最终取得抗日战争的胜利具有重要的意义。     

满族文化研究的盛会"长白山与满族文化研讨会暨第二届满族文化研究机构联席会议"综述

长春师范学院满族文化研究所于2010年6月26日至6月28日在长春隆重举办了"中国长白山与满族文化研讨会暨第二届满族文化研究机构联席会议",来自中央民族大学、南开大学、大连大学、内蒙古民族大学、黑龙江大学、吉林大学、东北师范大学、辽宁省民族研究所、黑龙江省民族研究所、吉林省民族研究所、吉林省民族干校、吉林省社会科学院、吉林师范大学、长春大学、长春师范学院等几十所院校和科研机构的70余位专家学者参加了会议.     

陶寺晚期龙山文化与夏文化——论华夏文明的形成（下）

这里所谓前期夏化,按笔的划分,主要指的是二里头化的东下冯类型一、二期。这一类型的前期夏化,据调查和发掘,多分布于晋南和晋西南,其遗址就目前的初步统计约有六七十处,其中位于夏县偃掌镇东下冯村的一处,面积最大并首先发掘,故而将这一夏纪年期的二里头阶段化称为“东下冯类型”。据仇士华先生在其《有关所谓“夏     

陶寺晚期龙山文化与夏文化

中国是世界六大文明古国之一,但有关中国文明的起源问题,迄今学术界尚无定论,或尚无较为一致的意见。对此,过去一些学者认为我国文明起源较晚,大约是在商代。例如日本贝冢茂树曾说,中国古代文明形成的时代,应...     

Food and complex societies

In complex societies individuals from distinct social, economic, gender, or age groups often consume different foods because of various economic, political, and ideological factors. The food system not only involves what is consumed but includes the labor and technology that goes into the production and preparation of food as well as how certain foods are distributed and eventually discarded. Food systems within and among complex societies are thus tightly intertwined with social differentiation and the political economy and participate in defining and maintaining differential social relations.     

承上启下薪火相传祝贺第二届满族文化研究机构联席会议胜利召开

今天,"长白山与满文化研讨会暨第二届满族文化研究机构联席会议"在祖国美丽的北方春城胜利召开了!我代表首届满族文化研究机构联席会议和发起联席会议的举办单位,向大会表示祝贺!     

Mindfulness and culture

Mindfulness, an awareness training practice originating in Buddhism, is simultaneously championed as a mental health tool and critiqued as a form of neo-liberal subjugation in media representations. Here, anthropology is well positioned to contribute to and meaningfully alter these contemporary debates. Anthropologists' focus on the relationship between psychological categories and culturally embedded ethical practices offers a welcome corrective to celebratory or critical interpretive modes. Through an analysis of sensationalized media reports that ‘mindfulness can make you selfish!’, the authors argue that long-term qualitative research uncovers ways in which cultural values profoundly influence the effects of mindfulness. In doing so, they suggest the importance of continued ethnographic research into mindfulness and increased public attention to the connections between the culturally patterned ways that we think of our minds and what those minds come to be through mindfulness training.     

Food and the middle ages

The study of food in the middle ages attracted much interest among antiquarians from the eighteenth century on. New perspectives came with the growth of social and economic history. Over the last two decades, re-evaluations of historical sources, along with contributions from other disciplines, especially archaeology, the archaeological sciences, anthropology and sociology, have changed the possibilities for this area of research. The study of cooking, of cuisine and its cultural context, as much as food production and the material conditions of life, is now central to developing our understanding of consumption. This paper explores new possibilities for the study of taste and demotic cuisine, food and virtue, the association of women with food, and the role of food in society and in cultural change.     

青海民和县出土马家窑文化彩陶的科学分析研究

为了解青海民和回族土族自治县(以下简称民和县)阳山墓地(半山类型)和马牌墓地(马厂类型)出土的马家窑文化彩陶颜料成分及制作工艺,采用偏光显微技术、显微拉曼光谱、X射线衍射及扫描电镜-能谱对其进行综合分析。结果表明:民和县马家窑文化彩陶黑彩的呈色物相为磁铁矿和黑锰矿;红彩的呈色物相为赤铁矿;白彩的呈色物相为石英;黑彩的Fe/Mn比值,从半山时期的0.31增长到马厂时期的2.45左右,Fe/Mn比值呈现上升趋势。民和县铁矿颜料的应用是继化隆县纳卡遗址发现的又一实例,为研究矿物颜料在甘青地区史前时期彩陶中的使用历史提供重要的线索。结合地质文献资料,推测青海民和县所使用的矿物颜料为就近取材。陶胎岩相主要由石英、长石、角闪石及碳酸钙组成;以强烈铁染为特征;孔隙较多,大多拉长定向分布;在900℃左右焙烧成器。在此基础上将对甘肃和青海地区史前彩陶岩相组成进行对比研究,深入探析彩陶贸易及陶器产地信息,进而为陶器的研究与保护提供依据。