Concealed Communities: The People at the Margins

The “concealed communities” of our title are the people archaeologists have often labeled as “marginal.” Archaeologists writing about both prehistoric and historic periods have commonly made a range of assumptions about margins and marginality, and their discussions have often categorized marginality as ecological, economic, or socio-political. Whilst it has been common to privilege one or other of these categories in order to explain how societies worked, they are rarely mutually exclusive. In addition, since marginality is relative, virtually any group might be made marginal depending on people’s perspectives in the past or present. Sometimes marginality can be imposed (economically or politically), and sometimes even actively chosen. Defining the “margin” is a complex business, and the term needs sensitive, context-orientated use to make it useful for archaeologists.     

Old World Traditions, New World Landscapes: Ethnicity and Archaeology of Swiss-Appenzellers in the Colonial South Carolina Backcountry

German-speaking Swiss immigrants from the Appenzell region of Switzerland settled in the South Carolina frontier township of New Windsor in 1737. After initially establishing an insular physical and social relationship with the dominant Anglophone population, the Swiss adopted strategies that increasingly integrated them into the greater regional society. Theory of ethnicity informs archaeological, testamentary, and landholding data concerning the symbolic action of the Swiss to assert and then transform their cultural identity. Evidence of competition, ethnocentrism, and differential power reflects the dynamic process of ethnogenesis that characterizes the South Carolina frontier.     

Quebec and Canada at the Crossroads: A Nation within a Nation

Abstract. I argue first that there are many different concepts of the nation, and advocate a certain conceptual pluralism. I also argue that a population as a whole cannot constitute a nation unless it has a certain national consciousness. I then show that we must adopt a fundamental principle of tolerance. I also try to attend to the complexities of the relations between Quebec and Canada, and argue that different populations represent themselves as nations in different ways and with different concepts. 1 show that Quebec constitutes a nation within a nation. I then wonder what it would mean for Canadians to accept a Quebec nation. Finally, I try to explain why a very large proportion of the population of Quebec has increasingly been favourable to sovereignty, and favourable to making a partnership proposal to Canada.     

从曾侯乙尊盘看民族文化心理对民族艺术的影响和制约

1978年,在距今2400多年前的曾侯乙墓（现位于湖北随州市,墓主是战国时期曾国的君主乙,故此墓称作曾侯乙墓。）中,出土了大量富有楚文化意蕴的装饰艺术品、生活用品、礼器。尤其是一批珍贵的青铜器引人注目,其中曾侯乙尊盘造型美观,极尽奢华,是罕见的极品。     

Laboring at the Margins: Welfare and the Regulation of Mexican Workers in Southern California

Despite sustained disciplinary interest in the social and institutional regulation of labor markets, the relations between welfare provision and work have received scant attention from geographers. This paper charts the functional and spatial interdependence of the urban welfare system and the agricultural industry in Southern California in the 1920s and 1930s. Employer groups actively constructed this interdependence and negotiated its unintended effects with strategies to discursively and physically manage the population of Mexican workers using welfare resources. These strategies, dependent on local grower control of the welfare apparatus, undergirded the racialized division of labor that concentrated Mexicans in casualized farm work.     

兰溪 勾蓝瑶的桃花源

<正>这里群山簇拥,古木苍翠,小桥流水,石径通幽,社坛古庙,戏台凉亭随处可见。这个如诗一般的梦幻之地,有一个幽雅的名字——兰溪。它就是中国四大名瑶之一"勾蓝瑶"的聚居地,一个孕育着瑶族千年历史的地方——湖南江永县兰溪瑶族乡。     

边界维持理论视野下印尼华人族群性的变迁分析

论文利用巴斯的族群边界维持理论分析了华人族群性的多个层面,并从原生性华人族群性、宗教信仰与价值观念、语言和风俗习惯、民族主义等方面,考察了印尼华人不同层面族群性的历史变迁。在此基础上,对影响印尼华人族群性的行为体进行了分析探讨。认为21世纪后,印尼华人族群性的复苏,不仅是华人被压抑的族群认同的外在表现,更是华人追求享有与其他族群平等权利的重要体现。这种"再华化",与20世纪初以中国为中心、视中国为自己归属的"再华化"有本质区别。现在大多数印尼华人都已加入印尼国籍或出生于当地,在政治上认同印尼。华人文化的复苏和华人意识的觉醒,是为了凸显华人与其他族群的边界,表明华人族群在政治、经济、社会等领域的诉求。其出发点是为了更好地在印尼生存发展,而不是以中国为中心的"再华化"。