略论古埃及文化对世界文化的影响

从文化传播的角度来看,古埃及文化绝非孤立封闭的,它不仅横向传播和扩展了其丰富多彩的文化,同时吸收、融合并创新了外来文化,而且还纵向保存与延续了人类文化,对世界文化影响重大.     

广场舞的演变历史与城市大众文化属性分析

作为一种大规模的集体性舞蹈,广场舞成为越来越多中老年人喜好的娱乐健身方式.广场舞和以往的集体性舞蹈是否存在某种联系?与中国集体文化存在何种关联?本文通过对中国集体性舞蹈的历史性分析,探析集体性舞蹈在中国社会结构中的重要功能和价值.早期的集体舞从作为神圣的宗教祭祀转向世俗化的宫廷文化,成为人类交流思想和表达情感的工具.改革开放后,迪斯科的传入使人们的个性化表达需求逐渐苏醒,近十来年出现的广场舞作为一种新兴的大众文化,既是人们独立自主性的表达,又体现为一种新的集体主义文化.城市广场舞和集体性舞蹈带着文化的印记以及新时代的特色,记录着城市大众文化的演变.     

阿拉伯世界外的阿拉伯语与阿拉伯文化--记阿拉伯文化学会第九届年会

应阿拉伯文化学会的邀请,史希同教授和我出席了于2003年9月25日至9月26日在黎巴嫩贝鲁特布里斯通饭店召开的该学会第九届年会.     

广府民俗与培育世界文化名城

广州作为历史文化名城,与广府民俗有不解之缘。广州要建设文化强市和培育世界文化名城、更新广州形象,离不开广府民俗。广府民俗不仅深刻影响到广州商都的形象,更造就了广州文化的特质和风格。认识广州商都和民俗文化的关系,对建设广州世界文化名城有重要意义。     

Shoplifters of the World Unite! Law and Culture in Financialized Times

The last two decades have seen significant growth and change in the character of the interactions between working-class households and financial markets. Individuals and households are bearing more and more of the risks that were once managed by governments and employers, and financial markets have developed a vast range of products to facilitate that risk transfer. This has put households at the centre of financial innovation, requiring the extension of regulation and consumer protection into a whole new suite of financial products and a project of financial literacy and advice. Along with this financial development and its associated regulatory demands has come a new cultural project of capital seeking to normalize the expanded integration of individuals and households into capital's frontiers of accumulation. The project invites and invokes new forms of subjectivity (and subjugation) on the part of households. The developmental project required of state regulatory regimes is increasingly articulating not just a discourse of financial literacy but subordination to the individualism and discipline implicit in financial calculation. Contrary to its conception as spontaneous and individualist, this is an intentional and universalizing project of producing and managing labour's financial risks. In the collective self-management of these risks, the household is now not just a site of risk absorption; it is a major source of investment products (and, therefore, at the frontier of accumulation). Increasingly also, in the name of financial stability, households – not just those reliant on state support – are becoming subjects of surveillance and administration in their internal financial functioning. It is these dual aspects of households as both consumers and producers of financial claims that give materiality to conceptual and historical claims about the financialization of everyday life.     

Dancing in the Dark: Ticketmaster's response to its Bruce Springsteen ticket crisis

Ticketmaster was presented with a crisis on February 2, 2009, when some fans trying to purchase tickets online to Bruce Springsteen concerts were redirected to Ticketmaster-owned secondary ticket distribution website, TicketsNow, and erroneously purchased tickets at a higher price than the original ticket price. The purpose of this research-in-brief is to compare Ticketmaster's response to the theories of crisis management presented in the public relations literature.     

World Culture and Transnational Economic Governance: Theory and Evidence

The current global financial crisis has led to renewed efforts to strengthen the formal rules and organizations of transnational economic governance. A substantial body of research in sociology and related fields suggests that the informal norms, values, expectations, and ideas that make up a world culture are equally important for understanding why countries cooperate, and why those cooperative efforts sometimes fail. This article explores these insights, showing how they can be applied to current debates about transnational economic governance, by paying particular attention to the emergence, adoption, and evolution of the Basel Capital Accords.     

Dancing Ourselves to Death: The Subject of Emma Goldman's Nietzschean Anarchism

Abstract

This article draws together two lively and provocative radical theorists, Emma Goldman and Friedrich Nietzsche, and suggests that a reading at their intersections can inspire political thought, action, and resistance in particular ways. The argument is framed through and productive of a particular archetype which emerges from a reading of these thinkers, that of The Dancer. Both Goldman and Nietzsche have been noted for their affect-laden reflections on dance, as an image of the subject which evades capture within the frameworks of discipline, morality, and ressentiment and which instead commits to a ceaseless and creative insurrection of- and- against the self. Here, I argue that through this image of The Dancer we can conceptualise a form of critical or anarchic subjectivity which can provocatively interpret and inspire radical political action. In the article I look at some of the ways in which dance has formed an important component of radical politics. However I also argue that dance as understood in the terms established through Goldman and Nietzsche moves beyond corporeal performance, indicating a more general ethos of the subject, one of perpetual movement, creativity, and auto-insurrection. I also reflect on the difficulties involved in the idea of ‘self-creation’; as we can see from the more problematic dimensions of Goldman's thought, creation is an ethically and ontologically ambiguous concept which, when affirmed too easily, can serve to mask the subtleties by which relations of domination persist. With this in mind, the article goes on to discuss what it might mean to ‘dance to death’, to negotiate the burden of transvaluation, limitless responsibility, and perpetual struggle which these two thinkers evoke, in the service of a creative and limitless radical political praxis.     

Welcome to the Real World of Clinical Research

Perhaps we should take a deep breath! We have successfully gained approval from three Area Health regions for a multi‐centre study, which assesses the effectiveness of a group program for parents of children with challenging behaviour. Each Ethics Committee had to have its say, and change a few things, but we were able to jump their hurdles without (we thought) over‐complicating a relatively no‐frills project. We were also extremely lucky that the project had received funding from the Centre for Mental Health. Without funding, it would have been difficult to afford essential research goodies, such as questionnaires at $2.50 per form, or even paper, adding up to several thousand dollars.     

Infants Use Statistical Sampling to Understand the Psychological World

Preverbal infants engage in statistical and probabilistic inference to learn about their linguistic and physical worlds. Do they also employ probabilistic information to understand their social world? Do they infer underlying causal mechanisms from statistical data? Here, we show, with looking‐time methods, that 10‐month‐olds attend to statistical information to understand their social–psychological world and plausibly infer underlying causal mechanisms from violations of physical probabilities.     

从芝加哥世博会到上海世博会

1893年的芝加哥世博会是世界城市规划史上的盛会,其影响力直达美国此后的城市规划实践乃至世界其他地区的规划实践.芝加哥世博会在取得巨大的商业成功的同时在城市设计上所犯下的错误也已被历史作了公判.     

Rethinking the Margins/Thinking from the Margins: Culture,Power, and Place on the Frontiers of the New World

In this article, I undertake a critical analysis of the writings that contributed to set up the foundation for eclipsing Amerindian social dynamics and their complexity. Starting from a presentation of Jesuit Jos de Acosta's classifications of the indigenous sociopolitical forms, I show that both the evolutionist and discontinuist perspective still in vogue among some Americanists and the positivist approach of some borderlands historians tend to perpetuate a conquest culture (the material and symbolic power relation of domination) while concealing indigenous social dynamics and adaptation strategies. I end the article by presenting some of the perspectives and concepts developed by a new historical anthropology that seek to re-politicize the production of social and cultural differences otherwise considered as natural.