Irish Placenames: Post-Colonial Locations

The names of places speak of complicated cultural geographies of language and location. Placename changes have often been explored as examples of power-laden contests over the meaning of places and collective identities. Yet projects to research, preserve and reinstate Gaelic placenames in contemporary Ireland (both North and South) raise more complex questions of cultural identity, authenticity and diversity. These questions are central to post-colonial cultural politics. By combining ideas of pluralism, multiplicity and diversity with those of authenticity, belonging and truth, these contemporary placename projects represent efforts to reimagine concepts of identity, cultural location and tradition. They suggest ways to negotiate the theoretical contradictions between and practical politics of critiques of colonial cultural suppression and celebrations of cultural retrieval.     

World Film Locations: Paris

Cambanel, P. et Cassan, M., Les Catholiques français du 16^e au 20^e siècle (Nathan, 1997), 128 pp., 49F., ISBN 2 09 190468 6

Fouilloux, E., Les Chrétiens français entre crise et libération (Seuil, 1997), 300 pp., 130F., ISBN 2 02 028131 7

Tallett, F. and Atkin, N. (eds), Catholicism in Britain and France since 1789 (Hambledon Press, 1996), 186 pp., no price indicated, ISBN 1 85285 100 7     

敦煌本《诸道山河地名要略》史源综考

关于敦煌本《诸道山河地名要略》之史源,学者们先后提出了"《元和郡县图志》"说、"十道四方志"说及"《十道四蕃志》"说三说。但慎而审之,其史源问题至今并未能很好的解决,故有重新探讨之必要。从体例、文本对勘及相关史料所记《要略》撰述取材等角度论证,可知"《图志》"说不准确;从常理、版本、目录及唐代地方行政区划的变迁等角度论证,可知"《十道四蕃志》"说不正确;在"《图志》"说及"《十道四蕃志》"说论证的基础上,从文本对勘及中国历代地理总志取材的角度来观照"十道四方志"说,最终考定其史源为十道四方志。     

A Trip to the Mountains: Travel and Social Relations in the Catskill Mountains of New York

The Catskill Mountains in upstate New York have been a tourist destination since the early nineteenth century. At a superficial level, the history of Catskill tourism follows a basic trajectory from elite destination in the nineteenth century to more inclusive tourist area in the twentieth century. This trajectory incorporates a “trickle down” theory of tourism and leisure that masks the complexity of changes in social relations. Jewish tourism in the Catskills evidences how class, ethnic, and gender relations intertwined in the creation of a specific place—the Borscht Belt. Archaeology in the Borscht Belt places tourism within larger capitalist relations in America and complicates concepts of tourism as consumption and leisure.     

Mountains and Black Races

This paper explores the pivotal status of mountain spaces in the 19th-century imaginary of wild peoples and black races in island Oceania. It adopts the notion of ‘heterotopia’ in order to examine how arrangements of human difference and spatial alterity were productively brought together in racial anthropology and in colonial praxis. Taking the example of the Portuguese former colony of East Timor, the author argues that anthropological theories of ‘mountain Negroes’, local categories of ‘mountain enemies’ and experiences of colonial hostility were mutually reinforcing.     

山水轮回

长久以来,我们一直相信,山水是无言的,是静默的。然不知,在自然的轮回之中,在四季的更替、日夜的交换之中,山水从未停止过它行走的步伐。正如我们文中的泰山,谁又能否认     

Down by the Water's Edge: Modelling Shipyard Locations in Maryland, USA

Shipbuilding in the Chesapeake, while explored extensively in historical literature, has been largely absent from the reported archaeological record, the primary cause being the ephemeral nature of shipyard-sites. In an attempt partially to rectify this situation a study was undertaken to quantitatively identify the environmental and cultural factors which influenced the location of shipyards. Following the construction of a GIS predictive model, selected shipyard locations were investigated to assess the validity of the model. It is believed that the results of this study will help archaeologists to investigate these important industrial resources.
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Haiti: Behind Mountains,more mountains

Vera Rubin and Richard P. Schaedel, eds. The Haitian Potential: Research and Resources of Haiti. Center for Education in Latin America, Institute of International Studies. New York: Teachers College Press, 1975. xxiv + 284 pp. Figures, tables, and references. $15.00.     

天赐瑰宝落基山脉

<正>1978年,邓小平访美,为了表示敬意,卡特总统邀请了当时最著名的乡村音乐家约翰·丹佛演唱了一曲《高高落基山》,从此,歌曲中的落基山,也渐渐为中国人所知。落基山脉,南北纵贯4500公里,从加拿大一直延伸到美国的新墨西哥州,是北美的脊梁;     

天赐瑰宝落基山脉

<正>1978年,邓小平访美,为了表示敬意,卡特总统邀请了当时最著名的乡村音乐家约翰·丹佛演唱了一曲《高高落基山》,从此,歌曲中的落基山,也渐渐为中国人所知。落基山脉,南北纵贯4500公里,从加拿大一直延伸到美国的新墨西哥州,是北美的脊梁;     

崀山魂

<正>世界上丹霞地貌主要分布在中国、美国西部、中欧和澳大利亚等地。其中以我国分布最广,尤以峎山最具代表性,是一座天然的丹霞地貌博物馆,被地质专家们誉为"丹霞之魂"。崀山,国家地质公园、国家自然遗产,重点风景名胜区——位于湖南省邵阳市所辖新宁县境内,距邵阳市区约150多公里。崀山之地名源于远古时舜皇所赐。     

华夏论坛:留住山川之神

大漠莽野,高山巨流,如今都有不倦的旅人的行踪.越来越多的人们走向原野,走向山川,即使只是短暂地逃离俗世,让奔忙劳碌的心,在原野上获得了慰藉. 行走在大地上的人们,各自寻找着他们的乐园.但在我心目中,真正的旅人,寻找和向往的应该是大地之灵,山川之神.     

楚淮古地三题

(一)楚惠王四十四年所灭之杞在何地,学术界议论纷纷,陈伟先生提出在泗水下游一带,当今安徽泗县城关,最为可取,我们作了一些补充证明。(二)《左传》"离城"所指,旧有舒鸠城与钟离城二说,前说有论而后说无考。由吴楚战争因由、战术安排、群舒社会发展状况及钟离城处离山之旁知,离城即钟离城可以无疑。(三)《左传》"淮汭"所在,杜预以来颇多释者,或者不可取,或者太宽泛而无意义。《汉书.地理志》记载一条发源于大别山流入今淮河(当时名江,又或称为江淮)的支流亦曰"淮水",以后又有浍水、潓水、灌水等叫法,其流入淮河的入口处,《水经注》谓之"浍(淮)口",当今史河口,显然即"淮汭"之所在。     

佛在山水间

在常熟遍访古刹名寺,对于我这个学园林出身的人,是历年来行走江湖中有关寺观园林的现场写生实录版了。 漫步在春目的深山嶝岩之下,体味禅意盎然的“无人之境”,呈现了天地间的白云幽石、青山绿水、乌语花香、清风明月、池泉古寺等自由清静的形象,其中隐隐然皆有佛在,可说是以佛对山水,以禅悟天地,亦即所谓“青青翠竹,总是法身;郁郁黄花,无非般若,真是合了庄子的”山林与,皋壤与,使我欣欣然而乐与”的境界。     

山里人家

<正>红条绒大花袄!在城里,几乎没有谁穿它了。可是,打一盆瓦凉瓦凉的"洋井"水,坐在小板凳上洗山蘑的农家嫂子穿着它就恁地好看,因为,有翠屏式的绿山衬着,因为,我们这个民族在明朗的天空下,就是好红喜绿!