A sociotechnical order for the umma: connecting Islam and technology in Suharto’s Indonesia

ABSTRACT

This article explores narratives connecting Islam and technology that arose in Indonesia during the New Order period (1965–1998). These public discussions defined technological work, especially work in high technology, as a vital spiritual and economic arena for Indonesian Muslims. By asserting technology as a site for spiritual action, Indonesian Islamic activists offered a redefinition of economic development intended to alter both its goals and the character of participation in the development enterprise. In doing so, they framed technological activity as a crucial form of moral agency. Embracing the postsecular turn in historical scholarship which emphasizes attention to the ongoing social processes which define religiosity and secularity, this article investigates how religion and technology are entangled in contemporary Indonesia.     

超声波技术在文物保护领域中的应用研究进展

文物是物化的文明。文物的不可再生性决定了针对文物的研究要尽可能地采用无损的研究方法，这也是近年来文物保护研究方面的前沿领域。参考近年来国内外超声波技术在文物保护领域中的应用研究进展，本文详细介绍了超声波技术在文物风化程度评估、文物内部探伤、水下文物探测和文物修复方面的应用研究案例，对各项技术潜在的影响因素进行归类，并对可行的解决方案展开讨论。超声波技术具有无损、快速、准确的特点，越来越多的案例表明，这项技术在文物保护领域将会获得更加广泛的应用并为解决其中的问题提供新的思路。     

科技考古与文物科技保护知识图谱初探

本工作对五本国际期刊中10768篇样本数据的产出与分布情况进行了统计分析,并通过VosViewer软件开展了研究机构、作者群、关键词的知识图谱分析,展现了国际科技考古与文物科技保护领域科学知识的主题范围、结构关系。在此基础上,提出了中国文化遗产保护学科知识体系的构建思路。     

The Morphology of a Working Place Linked to the World: The Railway Workshops of Jundiaí (Brazil, 1892–1998)

ABSTRACT

Material sources have done little to contribute to research on Brazilian railway history (except for heritage studies and history of architecture). This interdisciplinary case study focuses on archaeological evidence to reflect on topics not often discussed in Brazil: the physical and functional configuration of the workplaces related to railways; the changing of these spaces through time due to the evolution of technology; and their characterisation as highly globalised sites. In doing so, we take the railway workshops of Jundiaí (São Paulo) as a study sample and analyse it under the light of the expansion of industrialisation from the World's great powers to its outlying economies.     

麦积山石窟131窟壁画材质及制作工艺研究

麦积山石窟保存的大量壁画是研究石窟壁画艺术与佛教文化的珍贵实物资料。利用悬浮沉淀法、纤维形貌观察法,结合X射线荧光、X射线衍射、激光粒度分析、拉曼光谱等检测方法对麦积山131窟壁画残块地仗层及其添加物、颜料层进行科学检测分析。分析结果表明:131窟壁画地仗层使用的黏土应该是麦积山周边稍远地区的天然细质黄土,且粗、细泥层中均人为添加有砂粒,但粗泥层中添加砂粒较细泥层更多、颗粒较大且颗粒度不均匀。粗泥层中添加纤维为麦衣、麦秆,细泥层添加麻纤维。壁画烟熏污染物主要显色物质为燃料燃烧产生的炭黑,红色颜料主要是铅丹、朱砂、铁红,白色底色层的成分是方解石。研究结果不仅为探讨麦积山石窟壁画材质与制作工艺提供了基础数据,而且对后期壁画的保护修复也具有一定的指导意义。     

“南海Ⅰ号”出水漆器残片的成分结构分析

为了用现代化学分析手段来剖析“南海Ⅰ号”漆器的髹漆工艺,以“南海Ⅰ号”出水的3片不同髹漆工艺的漆片为例,采用显微镜(OM)、X射线衍射仪(XRD)、扫描电子显微镜-能谱仪(SEM-EDS)、傅里叶红外光谱仪(FT-IR)、共聚焦拉曼光谱仪(Raman)等科学测试仪器进行研究,从髹漆的层数、显色材料的成分、漆膜的成分、漆灰的结构和成分、胎体的结构等方面来深度剖析“南海Ⅰ号”出水漆器残片的结构及制作工艺。表面显微观察显示漆片花纹精致美观,细部处理到位;截面显微观察显示剔红样品共有9层,分别是外漆5层,内漆1层,内外漆灰各1层,胎体1层;剔犀样品共7层,分别是外漆3层,内漆1层,内外漆灰各1层,胎体1层;褐漆样品共6层,分别是外漆和内漆各1层,内外漆灰各1层,内漆灰中加杂1层编织物层,胎体1层。拉曼测试结果表明3块漆片中红色显色材料为朱砂(HgS),黄色显色材料为雌黄(As_(2)S_(3)),黑色显色材料为炭黑(C)。样品中内外漆灰成分为羟基磷酸钙[Ca_(5)(PO_(4))_(3)(OH)]、石英(SiO_(2))和水合草酸钙[CaC_(2)O_(4)(H_(2)O)_(2.375)]等常见物质。漆膜的成分是生漆中添加了少量的石英颗粒,没有添加桐油作为助剂。     

The laryngoscope and nineteenth-century British understanding of laryngeal movements

ABSTRACT

The source of the human voice is obscured from view. The development of the laryngoscope in the late 1850s provided the potential to see the action of the vocal folds during speaking for the first time. This new instrument materially contributed to the understanding of vocal fold neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neuropathology. The laryngoscope led to elaborated understanding of disorders that previously were determined by changes in sound. The objective of this paper is to detail the consequences of this novel visualization of the larynx, and to trace how it aided in the development of understanding of the movements of the vocal folds. This is demonstrated through an examination of the activities and practices of a group of London clinicians in the second half of the nineteenth century.     

商周时期的青铜觚及相关问题研究

青铜觚最早出现于二里岗文化时期,盛行于殷墟文化,西周早期逐渐衰退并消失。铜觚圈足上的十字形镂孔与铸造过程中采用的泥芯撑有关,金属芯撑技术的使用开始于二里岗文化时期,殷墟文化时期金属芯撑的使用逐渐规范化。圈足上的镂空纹饰是商周时期铜器装饰手法的一种,圈足下端的条状缺口可能是铸造过程中用来定位的,但不能排除是装饰或者铜器的拥有者因某种特殊的文化习俗或使用需求而让铸造工匠刻意为之的可能性。     

From Fierce to Adorable: Representations of Polar Bears in the Popular Imagination

From the late 1950s to the early 1980s, technology in the form of aircraft, high-powered rifles, and tranquilizers changed the relationship between humans and polar bears. Whereas the polar bear had been conceptualized as a fierce beast in early-modern expeditionary literature, in the second half of the twentieth century the bear was depicted as vulnerable due to overhunting and in need of scientific study, a process that in itself portrayed the helplessness of the animal when confronted with postwar technologies. Popular American and Canadian periodicals conveyed this shift in the bear’s image. This article examines the polar bear’s image as depicted by the media and argues that the use of certain technologies by sport hunters, wildlife biologists, and conservationists enabled a domination of the bear that altered the animal’s placement within the popular imagination.