陈丹青仍然在乎绘的面子

新贵士领军人物点评 他,拥有优雅而朴素、睿智而率真的气质,给予公众心智与感受力的冲击;对多个领域有独到的见解,思想深刻犀利;上朝气、自信、有魄力,从自由的意识境界里寻找文化和艺术的创新点。这就是陈丹青的“大格局新势力”     

作为社会科学的考古学

学者和公众一般认为,考古学就是为寻找最早的家马、文字或者城市等诸如此类遗存而进行的不懈努力。习以为常,大众媒体上出现的考古类文章往往只是与历史特殊性有关的复原和重建。这种倾向歪曲了考古学这门在最近几十年取得巨大进展的科学学科。我们认为现代考古学的发展在广义的社会学领域作出了极为重要的贡献,这种进展主要基于以下两个方面的主要趋势：其一是全球范围内大量田野工作新资料的积累;其二是利用实物证据对古代社会动力机制进行可靠重建的新方法和新理念的不断发展。     

A brief exploration of neurological art history

The invention of realistic portraiture to reveal "inner life" is attributed by some art historians to Jan van Eyck who worked in Flanders from 1420 onwards. We show, using clinical neurological examination of the gold mask of Agamemnon dating from 1550-1500 BC and of the portraits of Henry III and his son Edward I -- important English royals -- painted between 1216 and 1307, that realistic portraits were made well before the 15th Century. Thus artists unwittingly used neurology as part of their realistic approach to the presentation of the face. Because neurological diagnosis is often visual, neurology, in turn, has a rich potential to unveil examples of realism in art. We consider the art pieces examined here also pertinent to art historians, as they assess the role of art in documenting history.     

The death of Alexander the Great--a spinal twist of fate

Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. from an unknown cause. Physical depictions of this historical figure reveal the likelihood of a cervical scoliotic deformity. This is substantiated with the medical history and is correlated with his untimely death. For the first time, it is concluded that Alexander's death may have ensued from the sequelae of congenital scoliotic syndrome.     

旅游地理学的一些问题

地理学和旅游旅游业基本上是现代社会的产物,它引起了经济学家和社会学家极大关注.人们要问,把旅游纳入地理学研究的范畴其依据何在?我们至少可以提出六点理由作为回答.1、不管怎样来定义现代地理学的分支,地理学很注重研究环境的性质,地理现象(如聚落)的区位,空间分布和空间联系.旅游与空间条件密切关联——如旅游区的区位,从一地到另一?的人流——因此,地理学在探究旅游需求和旅游满足的空间相互作用上起着十分重要的作用.     

南非地理学现状

在南非黑人和白人的大学里都设有地理系,总数有十九个.读地理学专业的学生人数据统计1972年大约有2,300名学生(包括读硕士和博士学位),1979年人数增加到约5,200名.在这段时间里,攻读硕士和博士学位的学生比例始终稳定在学生总数的2%.南非的地理课程是按英国的方式安排的.高级学位在所有白人大学里都能得到.一般大学的课程由系决定和安排.因而不同的大学所提供的课程单可以截然不同,在同一课题下的课程内容也大不相同.除了对大学一年级学生所讲授的殖民地理、经济地理学、气候学和地貌学有一些共同点外,各系之间在象生物地理,水文学、气象学、制图学、数量地