Oskar Rosenfeld and the Realism of Holocaust-History: On Sex, Shit, and Status

In the Beginning was the Ghetto: 890 Days in Lodz. By Oskar Rosenfeld. Edited and with an Introduction by Hanno Loewy; Translated by Brigitte M. Goldstein     

Tom's Tambu House: Spacing,Status and Sacredness in South Malakula,Vanuatu

This paper is based on video footage I filmed in South Malakula in April 1996. It explores the case of Tom Moses, a man who claims to speak with God. He has constructed a house on the outskirts of Milip village which he has declared tambu, or taboo/sacred. Around it he envisions a new living space, following directions given to him from God. I argue that Tom's enterprise can be understood in terms of a spacing—status—sacredness nexus. This nexus is grounded in a pre-Christian Malakulan sociality revolving around men's houses, ancestral worship and grade-taking rituals. This takes place with a lived Christianity which in many contexts is expressed as a departure from kastom. As such, I argue that this ‘spatial’ analysis can help us understand dimensions of local human relationships which purely discursive analyses sometimes eclipse.     

Xigaze: Beautiful Hometown

Xigaze covers an area of182,000 square km. Extend-ing 800 km east-west and200 km south-north. it has a1,573 km border with Nepal, Bhutanand Sikkim to the south. Shannan lies tothe east, Ngari in the west and Nagqu inthe north. Historically, Xigaze has always beenan important administrative region. Dur-ing the period of the Tubo Kingdom,central Tibet was divided into U andTsang. Tsang was centered on Xigazeand was further divided into Yuru in thepresent-day Nyang Qu River area andRulha along the upper reaches of the     

West Mexican Metallurgy: Revisited and Revised

Mesoamerican metallurgy furnishes an intellectual challenge in the development of world metallurgies: the evidence indicates that it was introduced from outside after state level societies had been flourishing in many areas. Two questions thus emerge: one concerns its origins, the second concerns what peoples did with this entirely new, unknown material. The evidence thus far indicates that metalworking knowledge and techniques were introduced from northern South America, which focused on lost-wax casting, as well as from the central Andes, where cold work from an initial cast blank was a predominant feature of that technology. Here I summarize what we know to date about the tradition that developed in the west, including some very new on-going research.     

女摄影家镜头聚焦“美丽沧州”

<正>为贯彻党的十八届三中全会精神,学习习近平总书记重要讲话精神,落实刘奇葆同志关于宣传文化系统贯彻三中全会精神的部署要求,中国女摄影家协会主席、中国摄影家协会主席、党组书记王瑶,中国女摄影家协会驻会副主席、秘书长吕静波,副主席居杨,副秘书长黄晓丽一行深     

美丽的昌黎

<正>昌黎山雄水美,是"天开海岳"的旅游胜地。其黄金海岸有着"东方夏威夷"的美称,是首批国家级海洋类型自然保护区。《国家地理》以"沙漠与大海的吻痕"的主题评语,评其为"中国最美的八大海岸"之一。绵延52.1公里的优质沙底海岸线,沙源来自滦河口三角洲的沉积物,又经海流搬     

山水神秀：天台山与“唐诗之路”

天台的山脉峰峦,兀立如同阳光少年,豪气万丈; 天台的飞瀑流泉,清澈如同纯情少女,温润清丽; 而那些有山有水的幽深峡谷,逶迤如曲折动人的爱情故事,每一弯都有着不一样的情节,每一折都峰回路转的惊喜。     

神奇美丽的享堂

素有"青海门户"之称的民和回族土族自治县川口镇享堂村,位于甘青两省交界处,前傍湟水河,后依祁连山,左扼老鸦峡之咽喉,右据大通河之险要,为古今军事重地、交通要道,是一方神奇美丽的地方,被人们誉为"左钟右鼓的八楞山,二龙戏珠的享堂"。假日,我迎着朝阳,专程去享堂观光……     

风景

特喜爱不知名的古人那首有名的诗:"春有百花秋有月,夏有凉风冬有雪,若无闲事在心头,便是人生好季节"。当年第一次读到它,便产生了心灵的震颤与和鸣,于是,一下子就记住了,经久不忘,百     

Bjarmaland Revisited

The present article is devoted to the enigmatic Bjarmaland of the Old Norse sources. Where was Bjarmaland situated? Was there only one Bjarmaland , or were there several Bjarmalands ? The author approaches these questions by going through the historical sources mentioning Bjarmaland / Biarmonia / Biarmia . Second, she analyses the reception of Bjarmaland in Russian historical literature in the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, and finally, she gives her own opinion on the question of its localization, etymological origin and changing lexical content.     

Nyingchi Revisited

In1951,When Tibet wonpeaceful liberation, PLAsoldiers reached a townwith only a few house-holds. As a token of thanks forthe PLA who strove to expandit, the town was named Bayi,or August 1,the day on whichthe People's Liberation Armywas founded.     

Dartmouth Revisited

As Dartmouth has been the only wreck of a man-of-war from the 17th century to have been published in a preliminary report, it has long been the benchmark wreck for this period. Since the date of the publication, however, research has uncovered information that was not available at the time and which may shed additional light on this interesting ship. This paper aims to contribute to our understanding of Dartmouth 's construction and her place as a typical small cruiser of the mid-17th century.
© 2007 The Author     

Archaeology and the Bible Revisited: A Review Article

David and Solomon, a new book by Israel Finkelstein and Niels Asher Silberman, through their discussion of Palestinian archaeology's current understanding, proposes to provide evidence to prove the accuracy of Frank Cross's more than 30 year old revision of Martin Noth's theory of a “Deuteronomistic History.” The authors attempt to confirm the history of the redaction of the biblical narratives about Saul, David and Solomon, involving seven distinct oral and four written strata of tradition. Their argument moreover claims the warrant to assert the historicity of each of these legendary kings of Israel. The present article argues to the contrary that the “archaeological evidence” proposed does not support such a redaction history nor establish the historicity of either the biblical figures or their stories, but that the harmony of biblical and archaeological issues is circular and illegitimate by the standards of historical research. It argues, moreover, that the claim of an oral tradition, reflecting original memories of an historical David or Saul is an entirely unnecessary and unlikely explanation for the origins of both the figures and their tales in the stories of 1-2 Samuel and 1 Kings. It moreover argues that the hypothesis of a redaction history in a succession of four cumulative revisions, beginning in the eighth century and completed in the sixth to fourth century, BCE—lacking as it does reference to a readable text—is neither critical nor falsifiable. Finally, Finkelstein and Silberman's book is judged as an unsuccessful attempt to return to the methods of “biblical archaeology” that were legitimately impeached in the mid-1970s.