A Note from the Editor

Abstract

This paper presents results of research conducted during the summer of 2006 at the South Flats Earthwork (20MU2) along the Muskegon River in western Michigan. The site was first identified and excavated by George Irving Quimby in the 1930s. Our objectives included assessing the condition of the earthwork, systematically testing the area both within and outside the earthwork, developing data on earthwork construction, and considering alternative hypotheses for understanding the function of this earthwork in the context of recent discussions of earthworks in Michigan and the Midwest.     

Book Reviews and Short Notices

The question of community, and specifically Algerian female communities, informs a number of Assia Djebar's texts, as well as constituting an underlying concern in much criticism of her work. Yet, in many cases, such analyses do not align Djebar's communitarian representations with wider thinking on forms of community in philosophical and sociohistorical terms. An exception is found in the work of Jane Hiddleston, who fruitfully places Djebar's literary project within the context of a contemporary consideration of community, drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy's conceptions of operative and inoperative communities. Hiddleston's comprehensive account of Djebar's literary work does not include the author's only feature length film, La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1978), which will be my subject here. This article presents an examination of La Nouba in terms of community and communitarian narratives, turning to Judith Butler to consider whether a different model of shared humanity might shed further light on the issues of unity and difference in the film .     

Book Reviews and Short Notices

De Villiers, P., La Chienne qui miaule (Albin Michel, 1990), 219 pp., 85F., ISBN 2 226 04131 1

De Villiers, P., Notre Europe sans Maastricht (Albin Michel, 1992), 156 pp., 80F., ISBN 2 226 06135 5

De Villiers, P., Avant qu'il ne soit trop tard (Albin Michel, 1993), 244pp., 89F., ISBN 2 226 06159 2

De Villiers, P., La Société de connivence ou comment faire avaler des serpents à sonnette (Albin Michel, 1994), 181 pp., 89F., ISBN 2 226 06918 6

De Villiers, P., Dictionnaire du politiquement correct à la française (Albin Michel, 1996), 201 pp., 89F., ISBN 2 226 08555 6     

“21世纪中国史学学术研讨会”纪要

2001年4月23—26日,《史学月刊》编辑部为了纪念本刊50华诞,在古都开封举办了“21世纪中国史学研讨会”。魏宏运、杨国桢、朱绍侯、高敏、瞿林东、蒋大椿、陈铁健等三十多位来自二十多所高等院校和科研单位的专家学,在短短几天的时间里,围绕中国马克思主义史学的历史命运、20世纪的史学遗产和21世纪中国史学的发展趋势等问题,展开了热烈的讨论,获得了丰硕的思想成果。