从中英文求职信看中西文化差异

中英文求职信在宏观结构和语言策略两个层面有一些相同之处,也有许多不同的地方。这些不同之处体现出中西文化之间的差异,这些差异主要表现为思维方式的差异,对自我的不同诠释以及层级型文化和民主型文化。     

Animal Use and the Urban Landscape in Colonial Charleston, South Carolina, USA

The quantity and variety of animals contributing to foodways and landscapes are often overlooked in studies of urban colonial experiences. In colonial Charleston, South Carolina (USA), wild and domestic animals contributed to a unique lowcountry cuisine. Some of these animals lived in the city where their activities shaped, and were shaped by, the urban landscape. Many aspects of the environment were designed to accommodate and restrict these animals. Excavations at two eighteenth-century sites provide more detailed views of the changing role of animals in the lowcountry foodways and landscape from 1720 into the 1800s.     

Running the big city: the Dutch prewar mayoralty under construction

This article discusses the development of the mayoralty in the Netherlands during the first decades of the twentieth century. It will be argued that during the interwar years the mayors' position was in transition, with mayors developing new ways to exert public influence – a development that until now has been associated with the postwar mayor-managers. A case study of mayors in Amsterdam – in particular interwar mayor Willem de Vlugt (1921–1941) – Rotterdam and The Hague during the interwar years will show how changes and shifts in the local and national political constellations and power relations as well as socioeconomic developments both curbed and opened up possibilities for the mayor to adjust his position. At the same time, it will be shown how the mayoralty itself was transformed through the emergence of mayors whose personal and political background differed from their early twentieth-century predecessors.     

Creativity and its contexts: the emergence,institutionalisation and professionalisation of science and culture in Luxembourg

While an abundant literature on the social history of culture and science in Europe has developed over the past few decades, there is to date hardly any academic work exploring the social history of science and culture in Luxembourg. The aim of this article is to put Luxembourg ‘on the map’ by focusing on its scientific research and museums in order to examine the emergence, institutionalisation and professionalisation of Luxembourg's science and culture. It will be argued that the most radical changes occurred in the 1980s and 1990s: a multiplication of infrastructures, an increase in budgets, a professionalisation of practices, the emergence of a market for artworks, and an appearance of dedicated policies. During this period, both the material architecture and the socioeconomic architecture of science and culture have been significantly (re)configured. Within the political debates accompanying these changes, the discourses stressing the positionality and relationality of science and culture are noteworthy: while both were increasingly positioned within a European context, research was predominantly portrayed as a resource to boost Luxembourg's economy whereas culture more as a complement to Luxembourg's image of a financial player and a means to ‘regenerate’ its symbolic capital.     

大汶口文化的立鸟陶器和瓶形陶文

新近安徽蒙城尉迟寺遗址发现的大汶口文化晚期的立鸟陶器,实即带有茅草或羽状装饰的陶祖,是东夷人祖先崇拜的产物。山东莒县陵阳河等墓地出土的大汶口文化晚期的瓶形陶文,不过是这类神圣陶祖的抽象形式,有可能就是“且”（祖）字的原型。     

论楚文化对巴文化的影响

楚、巴两国相邻,文化交流频繁,楚国逐渐占领了巴国今忠县以东的长江沿岸地盘,曾经设立巫郡和黔中郡,这些地区楚文化占绝对优势。由于楚人和巴人交错杂居,因此楚文化吸收了巴文化的釜、鼎及花边口沿装饰等因素,形成了颇具特色的"楚文化峡区类型"。楚文化的辐射范围很广,渝东地区和嘉陵江流域巴人遗存中普遍存在着楚文化因素,包括楚式青铜器、铁器和陶器等器物,从楚文化因素的分布范围、各种器物的种类和数量来看,到战国中期,楚文化对巴文化的影响处于鼎盛时期,到战国晚期,秦灭巴、蜀,楚人逐渐退出峡江地区,楚文化的影响日趋减弱。楚文化的西渐,客观上促进了巴人的生产发展和社会进步,加快了中华文明的一体化进程。     

河南渑池县西湾遗址发掘简报

1999年,为配合黄河小浪底水利工程,河南省文物考古研究所对渑池县西湾遗址进行考古发掘,发掘面积400平方米。该遗址主要为仰韶文化遗存,遗迹有墓葬、房基和灰坑,遗物主要是陶器,石器很少。     

中原商文化的北渐及商王朝势力的北向拓展

二里岗下层早商文化的分布范围主要在郑洛地区。二里岗上层一期,商文化主要向北方扩展,此时商文化聚落遗址已蜿蜒扩展至太行山以北的壶流河流域,北易水流域以南地区已成为早商文化的分布区,并可能被早商政权所控制。同时,商文化沿黄土高原东、南两翼的拓展,恰好形成了针对此时商文化西北方的"钳形包围"或"犄角"拱卫之势。中商文化时期的聚落遗址点在太行山东麓的河北中南部的分布比较密集。殷墟文化时期,商王朝的政治疆域格局大体与中商文化基本相同,只是商文化分布区在北方已完全回缩到北易水流域以南。虽然殷墟式青铜器向北、西北传布很远,到达长城以北及河套地区,但这些商代铜器都是脱离殷墟文化陶器群孤立存在的,不能以此为据来确定殷商文化的分布范围。商文化向北方的扩张与退缩,是与商人的进退相联系的,反映了商王朝政治势力的北向消长。     

银川市特色文化建设的构想

本就宁夏回族自治区关于“大银川”建设中,如何培育银川市的化内涵,提高化品位,搞好特色化建设进行了探讨。提出了：夯实塞上江南化底蕴,突出回乡风情化个性,展现西夏化的独特神韵,巧作黄河化、大漠化、草原化的镶嵌点缀,以及构筑化建设的合理空间格局,大力发展特色化产业的建设构想。