清代晋中奢靡之风述论

清代,晋中奢风甚炽,弥漫于日常生活的方方面面。这一风尚的形成是商人直接导引的结果;同 时,它又进一步驱人于商途,促进了晋中社会区域性商业繁荣和区域商帮--晋商的发展,从而使清代晋中奢 靡之风愈演愈烈,流风久远。     

侈糜、奢华与支配——围绕十三世纪蒙古游牧帝国服饰偏好与政治风俗的札记

作为蒙元帝国时代的一种物品,纳石失不单单是一种用来制作服饰的布料,它本身还体现了其极尽奢华背后的权力关系与政治支配。这是一种与游牧社会相匹配的生活奢侈品的分配,由此物品的分配而在那个时代建构起了一个世界性的庞大集团,这个庞大集团得以凝聚的基础象征性地体现在作为这一帝国再分配政治基础的奢侈品上面。通过这种特殊的奢侈品的生产、掠夺、占有以及消费,一个十三世纪横跨欧亚大陆的世界帝国得以型塑。     

The grotesque in the plays of Enda Walsh

This article attempts to outline the aesthetic of Enda Walsh's dramatic oeuvre, viewing it as fundamentally grotesque. Plays such as The New Electric Ballroom, The Walworth Farce, and Penelope have generally enjoyed a most enthusiastic reception; however, reviewers and critics have remained largely baffled as to where exactly these intoxicating pieces have left them. A plausible way of addressing the distinctive combination of citationality, the intermingling of genres, linguistic brilliance, circuitous structure, pathological interaction between characters, and the darkest humour, may consist in juxtaposing Walsh's technique with concepts of the grotesque as outlined, alternately, by Mikhail Bakhtin and Wolfgang Kayser. The consequent observations on the grotesque in Walsh's plays are followed by a query as regards the moral dimension of Walsh's aesthetic, focusing on their position in relation to Bakhtin's assertion of the liberating potential of the grotesque as opposed to Kayser's insistence on the grotesque coming across as essentially bleak and hopeless.     

穆儒丐的晚年及其它

著名满族作家穆儒丐的晚年生活资料缺乏而又分散,通过广泛搜集,本文对穆儒丐的晚年生活做了较为详尽的介绍。     

Educational and other books received

SCOTLAND

A Development Plan for Scotland. By G. McRobbie. Planning. Vol. XXIX No. 476. 8 ½×5 ½. Pp. 30. London: Political and Economic Planning, 1963. 4s. 6d.

The Contour Road Book of Scotland. By H. R. G. Inglis, revised and extended by R. M. G. Inglis. 6 ½ × 3 ½. Pp. 28 + xx + 288 + 16. 4 pages of black and white maps. 24 pages of coloured maps. 146 pages of profile diagrams. Edinburgh: Gall &; Inglis, 1963. 8s. 6d.

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland. By A. C. O'Dell and K. Walton. 9 ¾ × 6 ¼. Pp.xii+ 353. One folding coloured map. 49 plates. 94 figures. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson &; Sons Ltd., 1962. 50s.

Scotland's Eastern Coast. By L. Scott‐Moncrieff. 8 ¾ × 5 ½. Pp. xiv + 214. 41 plates. 2 end‐paper maps. Edinburgh: Oliver &; Boyd, 1963. 25s.

The Fortified House in Scotland. Volume Two, Central Scotland. By N. Tranter. 8 ½ × 5 ½. Pp. 183. 97 drawings. Edinburgh: Oliver &; Boyd, 1963. 25s.     

Self and other in ethnicity and bureaucracy

Tambiah, S. J., Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1986. xi + 198 pp. including chapter references and Index. $17.95 cloth.

Raby, Namika, Kachcheri Bureaucracy in Sri Lanka. Foreign and Comparative Studies/South Asia Series. No. 10. Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Syracuse University 1985. 188 pp. excluding chapter references and index. $12.00 paper.     

Copper and other sheathing in the Royal Navy

The Royal Navy's use of copper and other sheathing on ships as a protection against'worm'is presented against a general background of the subject. Manufacturers', Admiralty and other marks found on metal sheathing are illustrated and identified as an aid to nautical archaeologists. © 2000 The Nautical Archaeology Society     

Paradigms and other speculative instruments of social anthropology

T. O. Beidelman, ed. The Translation of Culture: Essays to E. E. Evans‐Pritchard. London: Tavistock Publications (New York: Barnes & Noble Books), 1974. ix + 440 pp. Figures, references, and index. $20 (cloth), $8.75 (paper).

Victor Turner. Dramas, Fields and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974. 309 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $16.50.