Women and Law in Colonial India: A Social History

Book reviewed in this article: Women and Law in Colonial India: A Social History, by Srimati Basu.     

Mad-Stones in North Carolina

SIGURDS STRID MED FÅVNE : en studie rörande Hjältesagens forhällande till folkdiktningen, af C. W. von SYDOW. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

SKATTSÄGNER : en studie i jämfärande folkminnesforskning, af TOBIAS NORLIND. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

DIE ENTSTEHUNG UND RELIGIÖSE BEDEUTUNG DESGRIECHISCHEN KALENDERS, von MARTIN P. NILSSON. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.     

Western North Carolina: Culture Hearth of Bluegrass Music

This study explores the long-debated question concerning the geographic origins of bluegrass music. Using the Sauerian culture hearth concept, western North Carolina is identified as the source area for the distinguishing elements of the bluegrass sound. Western North Carolinians pioneered the innovative instrumental sounds of bluegrass on the five-string banjo, fiddle, and guitar as well as the harmonies and repertoire of bluegrass vocals. A music culture infrastructure emerged in western North Carolina based on a network of local musicians and social institutions, including fiddle contests, music festivals, radio stations, and recording studios.     

Review Article: Nations and Empires in Colonial North America

GREGORY EVANS DOWD. War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 360. $32.00 (US); ERIC HINDERAKER and PETER C. MANCALL. At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 210. $17.95 (US), paper; JANE T. MERRITT. At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700–1763. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. vi, 338. $32.95 (CDN), paper; MICHAEL LEROY OBERG. Uncas: First of the Mohegans. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 268. $27.50 (US). Reviewed by Gary Clayton Anderson     

对殖民时期印度史的再认识

受政治因素影响,我国学界对印度近代史的研究,在相当长的时期内存在着一些问题。研究印度不是从印度的实际出发,而是拿中国革命作为标尺套印度。方法论不正确,得出的结论自然不少是扭曲的,与历史实际不相符。对近代史认识偏颇也直接影响着对印度现代史的研究。近年来,这种情况有所改变,一些不正确的看法开始得到扭转。然而,扭转并不是都很到位了,而且旧的认识破除后,建立新的认识是更艰巨的任务。本文是作者的点滴体会。