The Old Kinchega Homestead: Doing Household Archaeology in Outback New South Wales, Australia

The Kinchega Pastoral Station in western New South Wales, Australia, was one of the earliest and largest in the area. A study of one of the station's homestead is demonstrating how the integration and negotiation of material and documentary evidence produces information on domestic behavior in rural Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and highlights the activities of women and children in an environment whose history has been dominated by the exploits of men.     

Seeds for the Future: The Materialities of Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Many collaborative projects between Indigenous peoples and archaeologists have focused on traditional ecological knowledge, emphasizing long-term use and patterns of continuity and innovation. Through an investigation of medicinal plant use at the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation, located in southeastern New England, archaeobotanical remains are considered the outcomes of everyday environmental interaction. The charred plant remains, which can be identified as the materials of traditional ecological knowledge, are viewed as evidence of efforts to preserve and modify current practice and as interventions to shape future practice. Through this collaborative, multi-dimensional examination, we can access the “seeds” for the future and explore how Indigenous peoples, specifically women, were historical actors during the process of colonization in North America.     

廿八都的军统旧梦

"那些女孩子大的不过20岁,小的只有16岁,都是从上海、杭州这些大城市逃难来廿八都的,那是1941年的春天,我不过十七、八岁,天天到这片操场看她们练习打靶,好漂亮的姑娘.我还看见戴笠陪着梅勒斯来视察过,就住在姜守全旧宅,可惜当年秋天,日寇攻陷了廿八都,我们的眼福也就到头了".     

梦华怀旧情结与明末清初西湖小说之兴盛

杭州在唐宋时期的辉煌历史与灿烂文化,是明末清初西湖小说的素材来源与情感寄托,而这在与后南宋时代的兴衰对比中产生了强烈的反差与失衡。失落中的梦华怀旧情结,在小说作者的审美心理与创作动机中,以及杭州读者群的接受心境与审美情趣中是普遍存在的。这是明末清初西湖小说兴盛的一个重要心理因素。     

"台独"势力的"日本情结"问题

“台独”分子有一个共同的特性,就是都具有浓厚的“日本情结”,这也是驱动“台独”势力长期不遗余力从事分裂祖国活动和造成台湾问题久拖不决的重要因素。究其原因,主要有二：1、日本对台湾50年的殖民统治,特别是它所发动的“皇民化运动”的久远影响,是导致“台独”势力“日本情结”产生的历史原因;2、“台独”势力出于台湾“独立”的欲求,急需取得外部势力特别是与台湾渊源甚深的日本右翼势力的支持,这是“台独”势力“日本情结”产生的现实原因,也是主要原因。     

在流浪中寻找精神的家园——论张炜的小说

张炜,中国当代文坛最具有本质意义的痛苦者和孤独者。从上世纪80年代以来,他的小说一直不停地在流浪中寻找,在寻找中流浪,他不仅向着苍茫的大地寻找着生命的皈依,还向着家族的精神血脉顺流追溯,赋予流浪更深层的文化意蕴,最后他似乎找到了他流浪中要寻找的精神的家园并且建构了“我的家园”。     

略谈苏秉琦晚年的学术研究主线--苏秉琦与中国文明起源研究之一

苏秉琦晚年的学术研究主线,正式形成于20世纪80年代初,修订于80年代中期,调整于90年代初,而最终确定为国家起源(即文明起源)和民族文化传统.苏秉琦对中国文明起源的种种论述,都是为了实现他的学术研究目的而进行的种种探索.     

Nostalgia for ‘innocent homely pleasures’: The 1964 New Zealand Controversy over Washday at the Pa

In 1964, the New Zealand Department of Education withdrew and destroyed 38,000 copies of Washday at the Pa, a booklet depicting Maori family life, at the request of the Maori Women’s Welfare League. This essay explores the raced and gendered context of the ensuing uproar in the press, which debated aspects of New Zealand identity. It situates the Washday controversy in the context of post-war housing and differential standards of living experienced by Maori and pakeha. It argues that the League upheld claims to both modernity and tradition, while many pakeha used the occasion to express nostalgia for mother–centred domesticity.     

Disciplining the Past, Policing the Present: The Postcolonial Landscape of Ecuadorian Nostalgia

The present article assesses the complex reconfiguration that studying the past signifies when one becomes visibly aware of the enormous political and cultural implications that such an endeavor entails. To this end, I will use the Ecuadorian landscape as an entry point or particular case to understand these larger theoretical problematics within a more empirically grounded ethnographic framework. I will rely heavily on my own previous assessments of particular reconfigurations of the past in the Ecuadorian imaginary through the production of the archaeological site of Cochasquí (Benavides, Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power, 2004a); the Indian movement’s historical recovery of their pre-Hispanic past; the representation of a troubling pre-Hispanic homosexual harem of young coastal boys known as the enchaquirados; and the more recent representation of Guayaquil’s national identity over the last century. All of these studies have viewed the manner in which the differing communities of the Ecuadorian nation-state utilize the past in conscious and unconscious forms to legitimize their own political ambitions. More concretely even, these studies exemplify the manner in which archaeological discourse is used to identify itself as the most rightful heir to assessing and understanding the national past, and ultimately, defining what being Ecuadorian means or should be all about.     

The Time and Place of Nostalgia: Re-situating a French Disease

The history of nostalgia as a clinical category has many highly specific national stories. This paper traces an aspect of this history, examining aspects of nostalgia's changing meanings in nineteenth-century France. Nostalgia was a disease triggered by displacement, which became medically and politically important after the French Revolution, when military surgeons encountered epidemics of nostalgia in the armed forces. Understood as a form of pathological homesickness, the category straddled environmental medicine and emerging ideas about insanity. The diagnosis became particularly important to Idéologue writers as a case study in regulating and redirecting the emotions, demonstrating the efficacy of their new "moral" treatments and an ability to generate patriotic attachment to the new nation state. Over the course of the century, nostalgia disintegrated as a medical condition reflecting a decline in environmental explanations for disease within medicine, and increasingly plastic meanings attached to nostalgic desire.     

怀念岁月里的旧家具

提起家具,感觉就是,现代的家具讲求时尚、豪奢,五花八门,什么样的都有,也很容易过时,一旦不流行,它的命运就是进垃圾场。其材质也很短命,压     

新郑市郑韩故城内近年发现的几座唐墓

2003年-2004年河南省文物考古研究所新郑工作站为配合基本建设在郑韩故城内抢救性发掘了一批古文化遗迹,其中清理的三座唐代墓葬出土有瓷器、三彩器、铁器、铜器等,器物造型精美,特别是出土的青瓷背壶和铁质鐎斗及支架在河南省内非常少见,为我们研究唐代文化提供了一份珍贵的资料。     

Joined-Up Archaeology at Old Scatness,Shetland: Thin Section Analysis of the Site and Hinterland

Abstract

Excavations on the multi-period settlement at Old Scatness, Shetland have uncovered a number of Iron Age structures with compacted, floor-like layers. Thin section analysis was undertaken in order to investigate and compare the characteristics of these layers. The investigation also draws on earlier analyses of the Iron Age agricultural soil around the settlement and the midden deposits that accumulated within the settlement, to create a 'joined-up' analysis which considers the way material from the settlement was used and then recycled as fertiliser for the fields. Peat was collected from the nearby uplands and was used for fuel and possibly also for flooring. It is suggested that organic-rich floors from the structures were periodically removed and the material was spread onto the fields as fertilisers. More organic-rich material may have been used selectively for fertiliser, while the less organic peat ash was allowed to accumulate in middens. Several of the structures may have functioned as byres, which suggests a prehistoric plaggen system.     

在全国地方志系统旧方志整理与开发利用研讨会上的讲话

同志们:由中国地方志指导小组办公室主办,中国地方志指导小组办公室年鉴处与陕西省地方志办公室联合承办的“全国地方志系统旧方志整理与开发利用研讨会”今天在古都西安召开了,我代表中国地方志指导小组办公室,向百忙之中莅临会议的罗振江副省长、李玉怀副秘书长,向与会的专家学者和修志同仁表示崇高的敬意!来自全国26个省、自治区、直辖市及3个部委局有关部门共140多人参加了此次会议。为了开好这次研讨会,陕西省地方志办公室的领导和工作人员,冒着酷暑,不辞辛苦,从会议的筹备到食宿的安排做了大量细致的工作,在此我向他们表示衷心的感谢!…