博物馆的社会责任与社会发展

对于博物馆而言,其责任就是"为社会及其发展服务",使博物馆与观众之间相和谐;使博物馆文化与民众文化需求相协调;使博物馆事业与社会进步相统一;使博物馆社会效益最大化.同时,博物馆应积极与其他组织机构开展合作,博物馆之间的合作应向深度发展;要积极争取全社会支持与参与,彼此形成良好的互动态势,让更多的民众分享博物馆文化.     

HOW THE OLD LEFT HAS FOUND A NEW PLACE IN THE MEMORY GAME

In his new book, How Modernity Forgets, Paul Connerton seeks to show a relationship between the workings of late capitalism and the institutionalization of forgetfulness in ever more abstract conceptions of space and time. He uses this argument to explain why the topic of collective memory has waxed so large in contemporary historical scholarship. I interpret his argument in light of his earlier work on habit memory and his still earlier critique of Frankfurt School social theory. I close with some comments on his study in the context of recent work on mnemonic practices in modern culture.     

上世纪三、四十年代僧界佛教会改革试论

上世纪三、四十年代,僧界有识之士对佛教会的会员、会务及组织形式等进行了一系列的改革,其目的主要是：通过对会员的改革以纯洁佛教会,改变其为少数人所把持、操纵的局面;通过对会务的改革以改变佛教会以护持教产为己任,而忽略内部之整顿与建设的局面;通过组织形式的改革使佛教会处在统一的佛教行政系统之下,以改变佛教会行政系统混乱的局面。尽管此次改革效果并不理想,但仍有值得肯定的积极意义,也为以后佛教会的改革提供了一定的借鉴。     

"周公戈"辨伪之翻案

"周公戈"先后被郭沫若、江村治村、林清源等学者认为伪刻。本文从戈的形制、铭文结合文献记载及对其他地方的同类出土物等分析,认为该戈及铭皆不伪,戈的时代属战国中期。从戈铭可以见证战国时代西周君主的称呼方式,并反映了西周地区的铭刻特点。     

Advances in Polynesian Prehistory: A Review and Assessment of the Past Decade (1993–2004)

The pace of archaeological research in Polynesia has intensified in recent years, resulting in more than 500 new literature citations over the past decade. Fieldwork has continued in such previously well-studied archipelagoes as Tonga and Samoa in Western Polynesia, and Hawai’i and New Zealand in Eastern Polynesia, and has expanded into previously neglected islands including Niue, the Equatorial Islands, the Austral Islands, and Mangareva. The emergence of Ancestral Polynesian culture out of its Eastern Lapita predecessor is increasingly well understood, and the chronology of Polynesian dispersal and expansion into Eastern Polynesia has engaged several researchers. Aside from these fundamental issues of origins and chronology, major research themes over the past decade include (1) defining the nature, extent, and timing of long-distance interaction spheres, particularly in Eastern Polynesia; (2) the impacts of human colonization and settlement on island ecosystems; (3) variation in Polynesian economic systems and their transformations over time; and (4) sociopolitical change, especially as viewed through the lens of household or microscale archaeology. Also noteworthy is the rapidly evolving nature of interactions between archaeologists and native communities, a critical aspect of archaeological practice in the region.

‘Oh You Pretty Thing!’: How David Bowie ‘Unlocked Everybody’s Inner Queen’ in spite of the music press

The 1967 Sexual Offence Act decriminalised homosexual acts between men allowing gay men to discuss their sexuality in public. Few prominent popular musicians came-out until 1972 when David Bowie claimed that he was bisexual in an interview with Melody Maker. Music papers and Bowie had substantial cultural power: Bowie was a rising star and music papers recruited journalists who discussed and perpetuated social change. The subsequent conversation, however, reinforced negative stereotypes in constructing the queer subject and tried to safeguard commercial concerns due to the assumption that the market for popular music avoided queer music. This undermined arguments that associate permissive legislation with a permissive media and society, but, to some, representation alone empowered people and destabilised preconceptions about queer identity.     

Intimate Mediations of For‐Profit Conservation Finance: Waste,Improvement, and Accumulation

How to understand the marriage between accumulation and conservation? The paper draws from extensive research into one value chain, from the advisor in New York City to a wildlife‐friendly cattle business in Kenya. Making this enterprise return in money requires intimate and relentless efforts to transform wasteful conduct across a range of institutions and people; we focus on the attempted production of NGO economicus, homo economicus plus, and bos Taurus economicus. Drawing from feminist and postcolonial theorists of capitalism, we emphasise how green capitalist value production does not always hinge on extinguishing other‐than‐capitalist‐social relations but rather attempts to mobilise and harness such differences, including non‐profit‐seeking values, logics and relations. The paper concludes by reflecting on the temporal challenges facing for‐profit conservation finance, including those posed by previous regimes of accumulation that it relies on but also wants to overcome.     

秦至汉初县行政机构设置辨析

秦至汉初的县行政机构主要分为县廷内的曹和县廷外的官。目前的材料显示县廷内设有户曹、仓曹、司空曹、尉曹、金布、狱曹、吏曹、令曹、覆曹、旁曹、讂曹、左曹,可能还设有右曹、中曹、兵曹、厩曹等,但是这有待新材料的验证。县廷外设有司空、仓、少内、畜官、厩、库、田、田官、尉、司马、乡、亭、传舍、厨、市等独立官署。其中,司空、仓、少内、畜官、厩、库、田、田官即所谓狭义之官,其负责者被称为官啬夫。传舍、厨、市是否为狭义之官尚难定论。此外,发弩、船官、皂、车曹可能分别是尉、司空、厩、库下的次级机构。