Grandpa's ethnology

Hans Fischer. Gabsongkeg ‘71: Verwandtschaft, Siedlung und Landbesitz in einem Dorf in Neuguinea. München: Kommissionsverlag Klaus Renner, 1975. v + 484 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, and bibliography.

Eike Haberland and Siegfried Seyfarth. Die Yimar am Oberen Korowori (Neuguinea). Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH, 1974. xiv +441 pp. Figures, illustrations, and bibliography. DM 98.     

肃慎-女真族系形成发展研究与民族学

本文对肃慎-女真族系形成发展研究的民族学价值意义进行探讨,主要从肃慎-女真族系研究对于中华民族多元一体构成、民族社会结构和社会性质、民族多元文化及交互影响、民族传统文化与现代化、民族学跨学科综合研究等问题研究的价值意义进行论述.通过对肃慎-女真族系各族的形成发展进行系统综合研究,丰富促进民族学人类学等相关学科的深入研究,对研究多元一体的中华民族历史文化、促进中国现代社会经济文化的快速发展、调整民族政策以及外交政策、促进人类文明进程、相互协调、和谐发展发挥重要的实效作用.     

论肃慎女真族系研究在中外民族史研究中的地位和作用

肃慎女真族系是中华民族和东北亚民族历史发展的重要组成部分.它在不同的历史时期对中国民族历史发展和东北亚民族的历史发展都产生了重大的影响.因此,肃慎女真族系的研究也是中国民族史研究和东北亚民族史研究的重要内容,在中外民族史研究中占有极为重要的地位,起着重要的作用.     

试论当前中国民族学研究面临的主要问题

民族学研究以“三个代表”重要思想为指导,在研究和解决民族问题中获得发展,在当前所面临的主要问题是。促进各民族共同进步,发扬民族学研究面对民族实际的优良传统,既注重物质明研究,也注重精神明研究。为巩固和发展社会主义民族关系服务,研究各民族在发展过程中涉及到的政治、经济、化、教育等社会各个方面的影响,研究民族发展过程中产生的新情况新问题。民族学研究的最后日的是为党制定和完善民族政策。     

Colonial ethnology and political rationality in french west Africa

This article explores the circular and mutually reinforcing relationship between professional anthropology and new technologies of administration that emerged after the First World War in French West Africa. Local administrators wrote fieldwork monographs that were formative for metropolitan science, while new native policies concerned with protecting yet improving indigenous social institutions incorporated the methods and insights of professional ethnologists. Together they created a shared field of colonial ethnology, a scientific‐administrative complex through which practical science and scientific administration constituted one another, whether deliberately or despite actors' self‐understanding. The goal is neither to dismiss anthropology as tainted by colonial history nor to accuse individual anthropologists of supporting colonial violence. Instead, this article analyzes how ethnologists' (contradictory) characterizations of African social relations and (contradictory) native policies were intrinsically related to, and did not simply influence, one another. These administrative and scientific imperatives constituted colonial humanism, a doubled and contradictory political rationality, even as they were its products. The French administration thus produced terms and data taken up by French ethnology that then shaped policies, which fueled administrative ethnographies that generated metropolitan scholarship and vice versa.     

Big Ears

Shortly after we arrived in the village, a black dog with big, erect ears appeared. This dog lying by the roadsidestartled us because her huge ears made her look more like a wolf or a fox than a dog. Later, she would often wander about in front of the village committee. My fellow team members would give her something to eat. She came to know us better and gradually became a regular visitor to the village committee.     

武成永固大将军炮考

故宫端门西广场陈列着一尊清代武成永固大：降军炮（图1,中国国家博物馆藏,一级文物）,它是康熙帝为平定“三藩之乱”而铸造的。清初,平西王吴三桂、平南壬尚可喜、靖南王耿精忠分镇云南、广东、福建,拥兵自重,形成割据势力。康熙十二年（1673年）八月,清廷下令撤藩。十一月,三藩中势力最大的吴三桂起兵,自称天下都招讨兵马大元帅,次年,称周王。先后夺占贵州、湖南、四川。     

大历史与历史研究

大历史是历史研究与教学的新领域,它是指从各种可能的规模甚至宇宙的规模来探究一切事物的历史。大历史也是一种跨学科研究。它与世界史存在关联,也是对传统史学的一种补充。大历史探究也满足了人们的精神、心灵和社会需求,有利于人们更好地认识自我。     

Big City Labor Markets and Immigrant Economic Performance

Franklin J. James spent much of his career working to understand and improve our metropolitan communities. His interests were varied, ranging from impacts of fiscal and economic distress on urban areas to understanding socioeconomic forces reviving our central cities. During the last several years, Professor James had turned his attention to examining the positive economic impacts immigrants and ethnic communities have for reinvigorating our central cities-and beginning to investigate how non-native American's will impact America's suburbs in metropolitan settings
This preliminary exploration examines destination choices of immigrants, the characteristics of immigrant labor markets, and the determinants of immigrant earnings. The article begins to explore indirect evidence on the economic efficiency with which immigrants and native workers distribute themselves within and among labor markets as well as the assimilation process facing new immigrants. Evidence is presented to explain how the earnings of recent immigrants are affected by their human capital characteristics, their race, and ethnicity, and other factors. We reject the hypothesis that immigrants participate in a tertiary sector of urban labor markets and conclude that the determinants of immigrant earnings are similar enough to those of U.S. natives that it makes sense to assume that they work in the same primary labor market in which most native White Americans work. We find that urban labor markets for immigrants are surprisingly efficient, thus enabling immigrants to take advantage of economic opportunities. A major exception concerns what appears to be a powerful effect of discrimination on the economic progress of Black immigrants.     

东北大秧歌与地域文化

东北大秧歌历史悠久,它即是东北地域民族民间文化精英典型代表之一,也是东北满、汉等族文化大融合的结晶。本文从文化形态学和文化比较学的角度及方法论证了东北大秧歌的历史渊源、艺术特色与族属关系等方面。     

去监狱岛与大乌龟“慢”享时光

<正>在东非坦桑尼亚的桑给巴尔岛西侧,有座监狱岛(Prison Island),面积不到0.2平方千米,岛长约800米,因岛上生活着100多只大型陆龟而闻名于世(其中有几只年龄甚至超过百岁),因此在游客的口口相传中,该岛也被称为龟岛。那龟岛上的这些大乌龟又是怎么来的呢?原来在1919年,驻塞舍尔的英国总督曾送来了4只亚达伯拉象龟到该岛作为礼物,于是,这些笨拙的大家伙们便在此迅速繁衍,1955年,象龟数量一度达到200     

汪伪政权与"大亚洲主义"

汪精卫与其追随集团为确保其自身在政治上的合理性,为建立其思想理论基础而极力利用孙中山的大亚洲主义,并将之作为其宣扬“中日和平”的根据,汪伪政权为进行对民宣传而主导发行了《大亚洲主义》、《东亚联盟月刊》、《大亚洲主义与东亚联盟》及《大东亚月刊》等杂志,从分析这四种杂志内容的结果,我们可以知道汪精卫及其追随者们利用孙中山提出的大亚洲主义,作为使其“和平建国论”得以合理化的手段,并错误地将三民主义的民族主义与“大亚洲主义”等同起来,进而,连这种被歪曲的“大亚洲主义”也逐渐被日本侵略亚洲的理论,即所谓的“东亚联盟论”、“大东亚共荣圈论”所吸收,汪伪政权最终成为其代言人。     

A Man Who Despises Big Talk

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Old-Time Fiddling in Big Sky Country

Old-time fiddling in Montana and neighboring states and provinces is highly organized but, except for a few well publicized contests, is rather invisible to people outside the fiddlers' circle. In Montana, old-time fiddling is structured around a state-wide association and organized into seven regional districts. The old-time fiddlers' association is much more than just a musical group. It is also a tightly knit social organization. Each district holds an annual series of jamborees and other “fiddle faddles.” These are festive social events, not competitions. Old-time fiddling is more active in Rocky Mountain Montana than in Great Plains Montana, and in the Missoula, Bitterroot and Flathead valleys than elsewhere in the mountains. The fiddlers and accompanists are amateur musicians, come from all walks of life, are predominantly in the older age group and more of them are men than women. The songs played are generally old-time fiddle tunes, not country-western music and the instruments used are mostly ordinary violins and guitars, not expensive ones. The highlight of each year's activities is the state fiddle contest held at Poison on Flathead Lake during the local cherry harvest.     

Echoing the Environment in Kam Big Song

Kam big song is an important genre sung within Kam (in Chinese, Dong) minority communities in southeastern Guizhou, China. It has traditionally served as a medium for transmitting historical, philosophical and ecological knowledge. Since the 1978 reforms, this region of Guizhou has been increasingly drawn into the national labour economy and has experienced a surge in economic development. The ensuing youth migration to urban centres, growing school attendance rates, and a marked rise in television viewing have led to a decline in Kam singing amongst younger generations. Nevertheless, in recent years certain forms of big song have featured increasingly in staged Kam cultural performances intended for broader audiences. Kam big song was recognised as a form of National Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in 2006, and was included on UNESCO's Representative List of the ICH of Humanity in 2009. This study draws upon various big songs that I learnt during almost twenty-four months of musical research in rural Kam regions from 2004 to 2011. It illustrates the cultural and ecological significance of this musical tradition, and the importance and complexities of its maintenance at a time of social transformation.