牛郎织女神话传说及其演变

牛郎织女神话是我国民间四大神话传说之首,可谓家喻户晓。本文将结合天文星相知识及对牛郎织女神话中出现的老牛、乌鹊进行简要考证、同时探讨二人相会的佳期定在七月七日的缘由。通过探讨这样几个问题来阐释牛郎织女神话传说及其演变的历程。     

藏书家韦力

宋版以降多有稀世珍藏,如辽藏《观弥勒菩萨上生兜率天经疏》参加国家图书馆“国家珍贵古籍特展”,以补国图无辽代汉字版本书之不足。     

西安大华纱厂价值评估及现状调查

大华纱厂是西安乃至我国西北地区最早建立的机器棉纺织企业,是古城西安一处重要工业文化遗产。以工业遗产保护的角度切入,通过文献资料收集,现场实地走访以及对老工人访谈等多种方式,发掘大华纱厂历史、科学、社会、经济、艺术等多方面的价值,并针对大华纱厂法律地位和周边环境的现状,结合西安已有工业遗产保护利用的经验,提出对其进行文物保护单位申报以及文化产业园区建设的建议。     

博物馆时空刍议

博物馆时空研究是一个崭新的课题。首先从其内涵和特点这两个角度出发对博物馆时空进行具有抽象意义的界定,进而具体化为博物馆时空的四种形态:传统博物馆的时空、遗址博物馆的时空、生态博物馆的时空和虚拟博物馆的时空。从宏观上看,时空作为划分博物馆类型的依据具有意义,同时也体现出了不同类型博物馆之间在时空上的联系;从微观上看,在研究具体问题时,时空可以作为一个新的切入点和研究视角。     

从《大义觉迷录》看清世宗之文化本位观--兼论有清一代之历史地位及士人之境遇

清世宗(即雍正帝)乃清代诸帝中颇有争议之人物,盖与其得国之昧、为政之猛有关。然综观其执政的十三年问,勤于政务,颇有作为。近日细读其所撰《大义觉迷录》,其中不乏新奇之见。本拟依托当时之时代背景,以动态之观点考察与评价雍正之言行与作为,并对有清一代之历史地位及当时士人之境遇做出客观之评述。     

American Seeds of ABACC? Findley's Proposal to Create a Mutual Nuclear Inspections System Between Brazil and Argentina

ABSTRACT

After the first Indian peaceful nuclear explosion in 1974 international observers perceived Argentina and Brazil, long-time rivals in South America, as countries that could follow suit. Not only had they not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), they had also not joined the Tlatelolco Treaty: the Latin American and Caribbean nuclear-weapon-free zone. In this context, the US began to reassess and tighten its nonproliferation policy, particularly throughout the Jimmy Carter presidency (1977–1981). Carter's foreign policy sought to stall Argentine–Brazilian efforts to master the nuclear fuel cycle, as well as push them toward Tlatelolco. These efforts ultimately proved unsuccessful. However, after a visit to Argentina and Brazil, US congressman Paul Findley suggested in 1977 that they consider a bilateral agreement, whereby they would agree to mutual inspections and renounce the right to conduct peaceful nuclear explosions. Even though it was disregarded at the time, these are the core ideas behind the creation of the Brazilian–Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC) established in 1991. This article, then, seeks to fill the gaps in what today constitutes an unknown episode in the dense nuclear nonproliferation history of the 1970s.     

Seismic refraction tomography surveys as a method for voids detection: an application to the archaeological park of Cava Ispica,Sicily, Italy

Geophysical surveys are commonly used in areas where the presence of ancient civilizations is historically documented. These investigations are able to detect through indirect methods the presence of bodies or structures in the subsoil measuring the variations of some physical parameters, obtaining information about archaeological remains without causing harm to them.

In the present study, we investigated the presence of anthropogenic buried cavities partially filled with rubble material, in an area located in the northern part of Cava Ispica, one of the most important archaeological sites located in south-eastern Sicily. The results of seismic refraction prospections, processed with tomographic methods, are presented and discussed. The entire valley contains prehistoric burial sites, Christian catacombs and residential units of various kinds. Despite the numerous searches made over past years, much still remains to be discovered.

The seismic refraction tomographic data, analyzed in 3D, revealed the presence of low velocity values (<400 m/s) areas that, considering the lithotypes locally present and the features of other archaeological structures discovered during previous surveys, can be ascribed to the presence of possible cavities. The obtained results show how such geophysical inspections represent an important preliminary tool for archaeological surveys.     

The production of borders in nineteenth-century Europe: between institutional boundaries and transnational practices of space

The article proposes a synthesis of the major historical works on nineteenth-century European borders. Founded on an original methodological approach, the article advances a rethinking of the concept of ‘territoriality’ traditionally attributed to the rise of modern nation-states. The innovative method adopted is based on combining the focus on spatiality in recent historiography – especially in global history – with the categories and the ethnographic method developed within the border-studies field. The analysis is conducted in two directions. The first focuses on ‘borders’, specifically on some border-creation processes developing throughout the European continent. The second is more centred on European ‘borderlands’, conceived as trans-state and trans-national regions, mainly linked to the space's well-established social practices, familial and economic networks and religious experience. On the one hand, the article highlights how nineteenth-century borders were not simply the product of an institutional decision performed by emerging nation-states, but also the result of an interactive dialectic between state institutions and social actors inhabiting the borderlands. On the other, it shows how the borderlands as cross-border territorial entities continued to exist alongside the new territorial state limits, helping shape a more complex European spatiality than traditionally stated.