《史记·楚世家》熊渠封三子史料性质小考

结合相关文献材料和研究成果,本文分析了《史记.楚世家》所记载的熊渠封三子的史料性质,认为三子之王号最初可能仅是尊称或神号,经过长期的演化和整合,形成了三子皆称王的说法,并被《史记》吸纳和沿用,成为《楚世家》的一部分。     

辽宁朝阳市姑营子辽代耿氏家族3、4号墓发掘简报

3号墓为砖砌单室墓,由墓道、天井、墓门、甬道、墓室等组成,出有陶器、瓷器、铁器等遗物。4号墓为砖砌仿木结构双室墓,墓室内仅余一合墓志及少量遗物。4号墓主为辽初汉姓贵族、曾任节度使的通事耿崇美及夫人耶律氏。两座墓的发掘对研究辽代兴中府汉姓贵族家族史及其联姻关系有重要意义。     

The construction of heritage: The domestic context and its implications

Abstract

A fundamental question in heritage studies is how heritage is constructed, how selection processes operate to transform some places, objects and practices into heritage and not some others. A significant site for heritage construction is the family and its relation to its material culture. The present Survey analyses how individuals within families relate to favoured objects and shows that the creation of material identity is crucial to a family's sense of wellbeing. However a gender difference emerges; for men the passage of time produces significant objects which are valued accordingly, but for women, objects are the passage of time. This has a significant impact on what eventually emerges as family heritage, and consequently upon how public heritage is created.     

Single-Child Families in India: Levels,Trends and Determinants

This paper discusses a relatively new but an emerging demographic phenomenon of single-child families in India. This paper examines the levels, trends and determinants of single-child families using the data from three rounds of National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) conducted in 1992–1993, 1998–1999 and 2005–2006. The paper analyses women who have completed their reproductive life to understand the characteristics of single-child families. The results show that the proportion of single-child families is higher among the urban, educated and professionally employed women. Among the determinants, age at marriage and first birth, place of residence, economic and education status were significantly associated with single-child families.     

Subsistence economics,family size,and the emergence of social complexity in hunter–gatherer systems in eastern North America

A consideration of ethnographic data, computational model results, and archaeological data suggest that changes in family-level economics coincident with subsistence intensification contributed to the emergence of social complexity among prehistoric hunter–gatherers in eastern North America by creating the conditions for a “rich get richer” scenario. Ethnographic data are used to construct a general computational model representing key person- and family-level behaviors, constraints, and decisions affecting the size and composition of hunter–gatherer families. Results from model experiments suggest that lowering the age at which children make a significant contribution to subsistence (e.g., through the broadening of the diet to include the kinds of mass-harvested, “low quality” foods that were increasingly exploited during the Archaic and Woodland periods) relaxes constraints on family size and makes large, polygynous families economically viable. Positive feedbacks between the productive and reproductive potentials of larger families produce right-tailed distributions of family size and “wealth” when the productive age of children is low and polygyny is incentivized. Size data from over 800 prehistoric residential structures suggest right-tailed distributions of family size were present during the Late Archaic through Middle Woodland periods. These distributions would have provided variability in family-based status that permitted the emergence of hereditary social distinctions.     

Kinship and identity in eleventh-century Normandy: the case of Hugh de Grandmesnil,c. 1040–1098

Hugh de Grandmesnil was one of the co-founders of the Norman monastery of Saint-Evroult. It was no doubt his part in this foundation that led Orderic Vitalis, a monk of that house, to provide an account of Hugh's career in his Historia ecclesiastica. The information found there provides an almost unique opportunity to observe an individual of the eleventh century in the context of nearly all of his family connections. This article uses that evidence first to examine Hugh's relationships with his kinsmen and to ask whether they acted together so as to form, in Sir James Holt's words, a ‘mutual benefit society’, and secondly to consider the extent to which Hugh's identity was defined by his relations with his kinsmen. The findings of this inquiry reveal, amongst other things, that the importance of Hugh's relationships with his kinsmen varied over the course of Hugh's career, and that the pool of kinsmen, friends, and allies to whom Hugh could turn in time of need was equally fluid. Hugh's career therefore stands as a corrective to frequently held assumptions that the relationships forged by kinship and marriage between members of the secular elite of eleventh-century Normandy remained stable throughout an individual's life.     

晚唐五代钱氏家族墓葬初步研究

通过对考古资料的梳理,可以将迄今为止已发掘清理的9座晚唐五代时期钱氏家族墓葬划分为以吴越建国为界的前后两个阶段。前一阶段以水邱氏墓为代表,后一阶段以马氏墓（康陵）为代表。前后两个阶段的墓葬形制有明显的发展变化,在随葬品的种类及组合方面也有差别。总体上,钱氏家族墓葬以秘色瓷为主要随葬品,特别是在墓内绘刻天文星象图,在同时期墓葬中具有鲜明的特色。     

魏晋南北朝私家藏书兴盛原因初探

魏晋南北朝时期,私家藏书异军突起,非常兴旺,藏书家人数众多,藏书量前所未有,藏书活动内容丰富,学术成果异彩纷呈,逐渐形成了私家藏书文化,它的形成与当时的政治宽松、学术繁荣和佣书业发达有着直接关系.     

中古家训的社会价值分析

本文通过对《颜氏家训》和司马光《家范》两者的篇目设置、关注重点、治家原则以及家族命运的担忧与期望诸问题进行讨论,分析中古家训的社会价值,借以阐释中古社会历史发展的趋势特征。     

噶尔家族与附蕃西突厥诸政权--兼论唐与吐蕃间的西域角逐

本认为西突厥分裂为附唐与附蕃的两大政权系统乃是噶尔家族专国吐蕃、同唐朝激烈争夺西域的历史产物,这些政权的盛衰嬗递虽不像唐朝所册的西突厥可汗那样脉络清楚,但也同样断续相承,基本上与噶尔家族的兴亡相始终,构成唐、蕃西域角逐的重要内容。