也门观奇

踏上也门大地,看到人吃草、羊上树、男人穿裙子、女人黑袍黑头布的现象。其后隐藏着怎样的原因?笔者把个人的观察叙述如下,算作异国的旅游见闻。     

Pleistocene sites in southern Yemen

In the autumn months of 1992 a small team conducted an archaeological survey in southwest Yemen in search of Pleistocene sites dating back to the early colonisation of the Arabian peninsula. The survey focused on those escarpments and terraces with exposed Pleistocene sediments. The team discovered thirty-seven sites, most of them multicomponent, with sixteen having a pebble-tool industry called Mode 1 and twenty-seven with a bifacial industry called Mode 2. Both industries were represented side by side on some sites. These thirty-seven sites, together with others found in northern Arabia and eastern Yemen, contribute to the growing recognition of a Pleistocene occupation of the Arabian peninsula.     

A disconnected journey

Driving is a dynamic human experience. The act of operating a vehicle, our movement across space and time, and the landscapes we pass afford rich sensory experiences. However, an increasingly controlled environment in the car and on roads is diminishing many sensuous encounters of orientation, sound, smell, touch, and even sight. The growing emphasis on transport infrastructure that prioritises speed, safety, comfort and convenience – dual carriageways, bypasses, ring roads, tunnels and sound barriers – is serving to disconnect us from our journeys as emplaced experiences. These changes are leading to starkly homogeneous journeys devoid of character that result in a loss of experience and place. In this paper we examine the sensory engagement and experiences of car journeys across landscapes, considering both urban and rural environments. Using case studies from different regions of Australia, we examine the bodily experiences of modern motoring. We suggest that there is no longer an immediate engagement with the landscape being traversed. With particular consideration of understanding places in an embodied way, we consider how modernised highways are disconnecting us from developing and maintaining meaning in our understanding of roads as a significant form of heritage, and as an important mechanism through which people experience heritage.     

旅途开心果

<正>我却吻到了老农妇三个老外一边喝酒一边吹牛,美国人说:我们国家的火车最快,开起来后,路两旁的电线杆看上去就像篱笆一样。法国人说:我们国家的火车才叫快,开起来后要赶紧向铁轨上泼水,否则铁轨就会融化。英国人站了起来:那算什么,有一次我在国内旅行,老婆送我上车,我从车里探出头     

Two Seasons At Hajar Am-Dhaybiyya, Yemen

In 1984 a Franco-Yemeni Mission excavating a part of the necropolis of Hajar am-Dhaybiyya (Governate of Shabwa, Yemen), unearthed several tombs with a rich inventory. The high quality of silver craftmanship of these objects suggested that the Wâdî Dura'was potentially interesting. Some years later a Franco-American expedition, directed both by J.-F. Breton and D.W. Warburton, started a trench on the mound of Hajar am-Dhaybiyya. A 40 metre-long trench was opened during the first two seasons (1992 and 1993) which revealed an architectural sequence of four main levels. Level IV was dominated by a large'Maison principale'connected with a stone Glacis, dated to the first centuries AD. Level V showed'maisons basses'and earlier structures. For the first time in this area, the trench shows definitively that the principal buildings of the settlement form a nearly continuous defensive line crowning the top of the tell, and that it follows an earlier line.     

东南亚植物造就新旅程

一次次流连东南亚,追逐阳光沙滩海岛、沉溺购物饕餮美食……你可曾留意那无处不在、成就了丰饶东南亚的一个个绿色身影？何不循着这些天赐的奇珍异果,探索这片土地上每一个国度特有的气质与内涵,成就一次绿色的旅行轨迹：如咖啡般深沉丰沛的印度尼西亚、如木瓜般清香悠长的越南、     

非爱不可

在南非大草原苍茫的天地间说出“我愿意”;与爱人携手漫步在好望角,让大西洋和印度洋成为爱的见证;登上一班蒸汽火车深入广袤神秘的旷野之中,迎着落日在列车上重温古老的传奇和优雅时光,一对爱侣的甜蜜之路,在影星任重的见证之下,浪漫开启。     

The Cripps mission of 1942: A reinterpretation

In 1926, the Empire Marketing Board (EMB) was established to foster empire trade without the use of tariffs. It was to simulate imperial preference by redirecting consumer choice away from ‘foreign’ goods and towards the produce of ‘home and empire’. Using newspapers, pamphlets, film, exhibitions and poster displays, the EMB aimed to ‘bring the empire alive’ to British consumers. This paper analyses the presentation of three settler dominions—Australia, New Zealand and Canada—in the EMB's advertising campaigns. The EMB's large visual archive has been the subject of only limited study, most of which has focused on a homogeneous reading of empire. This article argues that the work of the EMB reveals the presence of a separate discourse of empire—a ‘dominion discourse’—that has not been recognised in cultural histories of empire, which, with the recent exception of ‘British world’ studies, have been more interested in mapping and conceptualising the formation of identities in other colonial settings. The ‘dominion discourse’ emphasised the familiar, white and ‘British’ nature of the former colonies of settlement, attributes that are clearly displayed in the campaigns of the EMB, but can also be found in settler culture much more widely. In doing so, the white dominions stressed not only their difference from the dependent colonies, but their similarity to Britain. Though the inter-war period is often associated with the rise of distinctive national identities and the loosening of imperial bonds, the production of these attributes in an imperial and metropolitan context draws attention to both the transnational nature of identity formation and the continuing importance of Britain and empire in the construction of settler culture in this period.     

1942年重庆军事会议探析

1942年12月下旬,在太平洋战争刚刚爆发,第二次世界大战进一步扩大的背景下,为了统一和协调反法西斯战线的远东战略,加强中美英之间的军事合作,由蒋介石和罗斯福共同发起,在重庆召开了一次国际军事会议。……