Alltagsmobilität in Kommunen zwischen Niederrhein und Ruhrgebiet. Aus welchen Gründen wird der ÖPNV nicht häufiger genutzt?

Standort - Die Alltagsmobilität ist in Deutschland stark mit der Nutzung des Pkw verbunden. Nachhaltigkeitsdebatten seit den 1980er-Jahren kritisieren jedoch die Dominanz des Pkw mit...     

"南海Ⅰ号"南宋沉船出水瓷器阿拉伯文墨书题记考释

南宋沉船"南海Ⅰ号"出水了大量带有墨书的瓷器,其中有7件为阿拉伯语题写,内容主要为所有者姓名及真主赞词.同时,根据其他船载文物以及动物遗存所反映出来的阿拉伯、伊斯兰特性,综合表明船上活跃着一个阿拉伯人群体.此外,通过对墨书上的阿拉伯文姓名传统以及赞词的书体及语法规范进行分析,初步可以认为船上阿拉伯人可能与埃及阿尤布王朝存在着较为紧密的联系.研究还发现,该阿拉伯人群体应为泛海客商而非船员,同时又可再细分为居于船艏、艉楼的两小群体,其中前者的生活环境优于后者,显示出船上人群的财富等级差异.以上发现,对研究"南海Ⅰ号"的终点港、宋代的远洋贸易路线以及中埃之间的交往关系,具有重要参考价值.     

The Gender of the Cosmos: Totemism,Society and Embodiment in the Sepik River

This article contributes to recent research on the foundations of society in Melanesia, both in terms of local representation and actual social practice, as well as body imagery and gender. I have three interrelated objectives. First, I present new data on the symbolism and politics of Eastern Iatmul cosmology and totemism (Sepik River, Papua New Guinea). Second, I engage Harrison's distinction between magical and material, or realist and nominalist, polities in Melanesia. Eastern Iatmul society is represented by totemic names and categories. Yet society also requires human agents to embody named entities: men rarely assert the existence of cosmological categories that are divorced entirely from the realm of human action. This is a key difference between Eastern Iatmul and other Sepik societies such as Manambu. Finally, I argue that there is a symbolic homology between the gendered human body, the body politic and the cosmos, an important perspective that has been lacking in Melanesian comparative studies. Totemism for Eastern Iatmul is largely a realm of male ritual-politics. Nevertheless, an idiom of maternal fertility and reproduction is salient in the local cosmology. For this reason, the gender of the cosmos, to invoke Marilyn Strathern, is androgynous.     

Scientific Information, Elite Attitudes, and the Public Debate Over Food Safety

Why do consumers often react with alarm to food technologies (such as irradiation, genetic engineering, artificial hormones, and chemical pesticides) that scientists regard as essentially safe? We examine the attitudes toward food safety of three types of elites who serve as providers of scientific information regarding food safety to the United States public. Previous research suggests that journalists are likely to exaggerate risks associated with emerging food technologies, while minimizing risks associated with natural pathogens. This bias is hypothesized to be political in origin. By and large, our sample of newspaper editors was only slightly more concerned than were United States government policymakers and a sample of scientists. The expected pattern of alarm occurs clearly only in the case of irradiation. In addition, modest correlations of ideology to safety assessments were found for all three types of elites.