Controlling Bodies: The Punishment of Multiracialized Sexual Relations

Geographies of sexuality have paid minimal attention to interracial relations. To rectify this, we examine the genealogy of the criminalization and punishment of 'interracial' relations. Drawing on three historical moments in the evolution of race relations in Anglo-America, we argue that the criminalization of these relations has historically been grounded in material relations and not in abstract ideals of racial purity or fears of racial degeneration. Using a strategy of 'unnatural discourse,' we suggest that as the American capitalist system expanded, the punishment of multiracialized sexual relations has generated and retained important ideological functions that have never been far removed from their material base.     

夏商时期中原与长江中游地区的文化联系

本文通过对夏商时期中原地区与长江中游地区夏商时期文化因素的分析,论述了二者的关系,认为中原文化自二里头文化三、四期之时对南方大力扩张,至二里岗文化时期发展到顶峰,在殷墟文化一期阶段后退缩。作者提出,中原力量的南进与中原青铜器铸造量在峰值上完全不一致,为众多学者所强调的商人南进掠铜论的观点值得探究。     

"诸娘"与"唐部":闽江下游民俗生活中的族群关系与历史记忆

众所周知,福建的地域传统是以属“南岛语族”文化圈的“闽越”土著为“底层”的。对于从事福建(包括整个华南)文化与历史研究的人来说,这一地区如何从“蛮夷之地”转变成为以“汉人”、“汉文化”为主导的地区,一直是一个难以回避且引人入胜的问题。人类学家林惠祥先生曾经说过,福建“可谓最缺乏历史之省份”1,这里所说的“历史”,当指“直至五代犹未甚详”的文献典籍而言。然而,自唐末五代代表“中原汉人”正统地位和文化身份的王氏经营闽地之后,福建便“蜕变”成为人文蔚起的礼仪文教之邦,完成了由“蛮夷要服”向“海滨洙泗”的转变,宋儒…     

Culture on the Moon: Bodies in Time and Space

This paper investigates whether the term ‘culture’ can be applied to the six Apollo lunar landing sites, and how the remains at these sites can be understood as the actions of bodies at a particular moment in space and time.     

With Cutlass and Compress: Women's Relations with the Sea

Books reviewed in this article: Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling (eds), Iron Men, Wooden Women:Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic Worlds 1700‐1920 Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaportsand Social Change 1630‐1800 Hans Turley, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality and Masculine Identity Violet Jessop, Titanic Survivor: the Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess     

Anaemia in the Ancient Indus Valley

The Harappan, or Indus Valley, civilization is considered by many to be among the earliest and most developed of ancient civilizations, with features such as a highly specialized and functionally integrated economy, centralized bureaucratic institutions and a large population base. Two of 29 crania recovered during the most recent cemetery excavations at Harappa display cranial lesions of porotic hyperostosis, suggestive of chronic anaemia. No lesions consistent with the effects of genetic anaemias were exhibited by any of the 92 individuals for which postcranial remains were preserved, however, suggesting that an acquired iron deficiency is the most likely diagnosis. This low prevalence of anaemia may be linked to a good nutritional base in a diverse ecological setting, and few gastrointestinal and other infections due to high standards of personal and community hygiene. A genetic anaemia may be responsible for an apparent higher frequency of porotic hyperostosis at Mohenjo-Daro, a Harappan site that is located in a different environmental zone, but the small samples available for these and other South Asian sites render these conclusions tentative. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Int. J. Osteoarchaeol., 7 : 115–123 (1997) No. of Figures: 2. No. of Tables: 1. No. of References: 57.     

读《北福地:易水流域史前遗址》

2007年初,由文物出版社出版的《北福地:易水流域史前遗址》(下称《北福地》)和大家见面了。中易水是海河水系南拒马河的支流,北福地遗址就坐落在此河北岸,西倚太行山脉,东望河北平原。该遗址在1985和1997年分别有过发掘,围绕着这些田野工作提出的问题,特别是为究明北福地一期遗存中甲类和乙类的关系,经过精     

论黄河流域先秦时期腰坑墓葬俗文化——兼说与长江流域同类墓葬俗的关系

腰坑墓流行于黄河流域中原地区的墓葬中,学者们多把对其研究的焦点集中在对这一葬俗文化起源问题的讨论上,并较一致地认为该葬俗最早起源于河南地区。本文对发现的有关材料进行梳理,围绕中原地区先秦时期腰坑墓的起源、用途、性质、发展演变等进行了分析,以澄清过去研究中存在的一些模糊认识。认为,腰坑墓的葬俗最早可以追溯到新石器时代,而其起源亦非河南地区。     

The Saharan divide in the Nile Valley: the evidence from Qasr Ibrim

Recent research at Qasr Ibrim in Egyptian Nubia shows that, during the last 3000 years, this hill-top site commanding a long stretch of the Nile in the First Cataract region was usually controlled by polities centered further to the south — Napatan, Meroitic and Christian. Even when controlled by northerners — Greek, Roman or Turkish — is was still a frontier post. It is suggested that this evidence, showing that the frontier between the states dominating the Lower and Middle Nile was located as far north as the First Cataract, helps explain the lack of Mediterranean influence in the Upper Nile basin and, beyond, in sub-Saharan Africa. The Nubian Corridor was, in fact, blocked so far north that it is best described as a cul de sac.

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Résumé Les recherches menées à Qasr Ibrim dans la Nubie égyptienne ces dernières années montrent que ce site, qui domine du sommet d'une colline une partie assez grande du Nil dans la région de la première cataracte, a été controlé pendant les trois derniers millénaires par une série de royaumes dont les centres se situaient plus au sud — royaumes de Napata et Meröe, royaume chrétien. Qasr Ibrim restait un poste frontière même quand il passait sous contrôle des peuples du nord — grecques, romains ou turques. Ces données, qui montrent que la frontière entre les royaumes qui dominaient le bas Nil et ceux qui dominaient le moyen Nil se trouvaient très au nord jusqu'à la première cataracte, peuvent nous aider à comprendre l'absence d'influences méditerranéennes dans le bassin de l'haut Nil et au délà, dans l'Afrique au sud du Sahara. A vrai dire, le coloir nubien était barré autant au nord qu'il mérite d'être considéré plutôt comme une impasse.