在裕固草原上

孤独的索拉血红的晚霞水一样落在祁连山黑河岸边时，我又听到了对岸索拉老人凄惨而悲切的笛声。那一声声撕破人心的笛声正敲打着落日的心，落日带着沉默把红红的泪花洒在草原，隐向山后。泪光里草原在颤抖，大地在哭泣，那笛声剑样一下一下扎穿大地的心，淌过滚动的河水一串串滚落在黄昏的草滩上。渐渐暗去的霞光里索拉的身影像一只老鹰孤独地悬卧在岩石上，像一个金属的雕刻。对岸山包上是牧民们常去祭天的敖包。高高的敖包稳稳地坐在山上，彩色的红幡在夕阳下随风飘动，周围的一切显得那样庄严而肃穆。一种神奇的力量在敖包的肃穆中神秘地…     

伊丽莎白女王

民众关注英国女王已经80年了,但她究竟做了些什么?《时代》杂志披露了内幕……2月,英国板球队(2005年夏天击败澳大利亚队之后,成了全国的偶像)同伦伯朗和鲁本斯的画作一起出席了在白金汉宫美术馆举行的     

巴黎骚乱的缘由

巴黎碰到了近些年来最严重的骚乱,该是深入探究外裔法国人不满根源的时候了。 2005年11月初,一个年轻人扎着头巾、穿着汗衫,同他的伙伴斯宾、伊尔·帕奇、贝娄和科·苏克一道,像其他成千上万的人一样, 打着横幅,敲打着从阴暗肮脏、毫无生气的小区公寓中走出来,这些小区环绕在法国大城市周边。他们在巴黎的郊区街道中间游行。波比格尼(Bobigny)是巴黎东北郊区一个乱糟糟的小镇,他们在它的市议厅周围燃起了一圈火,这使得这个藏污纳垢的地方开始让警察巡逻     

社会生活模式与长寿

假如说你可以延长10年寿命,你会怎么想?健康的长寿生活绝不是偶然出现的。首先要有良好的基因,同时得有良好的习惯。专家认为,如果你的生活方式健康,你会延长10年寿命。那么成功的公式是什么呢?近年来,科研人员在全球四处探寻长寿的奥秘。由美国国家老龄研究所给予部分资助的科学家们发现了一些长寿地区。一个专家小组在意大利的撒丁岛山区发现了一个长寿地,那里百岁老人的比例十分惊     

培养儿童与青少年的认同资本和社会资本: 社区的责任(摘要)

本文回顾了有关认同资本(Coté1997;Coté Levine,2002)和社会资本(Putnam,2000)获得过程的研究,并将其应用于现当代社会社会化性质的改变之中.现当代社会的改变包括:1)保护儿童和青少年不受大众暴力以及广告等因素的潜在腐蚀.2)提供个体积极发展的途径,如参与社区儿童中心的活动以及加入成人公民社会.文中列举的例子涵盖了从自发到政府组织的机构,效果有正面的也有负面的.     

论蒙古史诗中的几个问题

作为蒙古民间文学最大类别之一的史诗,有它自身独特的表现形式和特点。但我想,基于自己看过的资料,先谈谈其中的若干问题。首先,我想对蒙古史诗的语言或运用艺     

Maternal Functioning, Time, and Money: The World of Work and Welfare

Numerous studies have assessed families' employment and financial stability following welfare reform. Yet little research has addressed whether welfare and work transitions are linked with other changes in family functioning. Using a representative sample of approximately 2,000 low-income urban families from the Three-City Study, analyses assessed whether mothers' welfare and employment experiences over a two-year period following welfare reform were related to changes in family well-being. Lagged regression models controlling for family characteristics and earlier levels of functioning found that moving into employment and stable employment (of 30 hours or more per week) were linked to substantial increases in income and improvements in mothers' psychological well-being. Movements into employment also were associated with declines in financial strain and food insecurity. Sustained or initiated welfare receipt was related to relative declines in income, physical health, and psychological well-being, but also to improved access to medical care. In contrast, mothers' welfare and work experiences showed very limited relations to changes in the quality of parenting or of children's home environments. These patterns were similar for families with young children and those with adolescent children. Results suggest that parenting behaviors are more resistant to change than are maternal emotional and economic functioning.     

Maternal Welfare and Employment Experiences and Adolescent Well-Being: Do Mothers' Human Capital Characteristics Matter?

Using a representative sample of over 900 low-income urban families from the Three-City Study, analyses assessed whether maternal human capital characteristics moderate relationships between mothers' welfare and employment experiences and young adolescents' well-being. Results indicate synergistic effects whereby greater maternal education and literacy skills enhanced positive links between mothers' new or sustained employment and improvements in adolescent cognitive and psychosocial functioning. Greater human capital also enhanced the negative links between loss of maternal employment and adolescent functioning. Mothers' entrances onto welfare appeared protective for adolescents of mothers with little education but predicted decreased psychosocial functioning among teens of more educated mothers. Results suggest that maternal human capital characteristics may alter the payback of welfare and work experiences for low-income families.     

政治史的适当位置:论政府在美国的重要作用

当有人象我这样对你们说,史学家的下一个领域将是政治史,你们一定会惊愕不已:你在开玩笑吧。因为,如果说在过去的三十年中我们确实得到过一个教训的话,那么,这就是:政治史已经过时了,它是纠缠于表面事物和短暂现象而不能自拔的一门不屑一顾的学科了。迈克尔·坎曼在《往昔》一书的序言中曾写道:“政治史已不再是史学研究的焦点,这一说法看来是公正的。”保罗·古德曼也指出,最近,《美国历史述评》在评估美国历史学的成就和前景时,没有登载过一篇政治史方面的文章,许多读     

蒙古人的飞禽崇拜

蒙古人的与飞禽有关的各种认识、观念、习俗和神话传说以及造型艺术等组成了一个独特的、绚丽多彩的原始崇拜文化。本文基于较丰富的田野考察资料和中外文献中的有关史料，从文化人类学的角度把这一旷之时日的原始崇拜分为神鸟、土鸟和候鸟三大类加以描述的同时，力图对其产生的原因、传承与衍变以及其内涵与外延作一文化透视。