地方性的神话观:菲律宾阿拉安-芒扬原住民的民间叙事自然分类

本文探讨了菲律宾民都洛岛山区中芒扬民族阿拉安部族原住民关于当地民间叙事的自然分类.笔者于2004年7月、2006年4月、2007年1至2月三次在该部族中从事田野工作,搜集当地"活形态"的洪水神话和创世神话,调查原住民的相关信仰、仪式、巫术、神谕等.本文建立在参与式田野观察的基础之上,首先从民俗学学术史的角度回溯"自然分类"在民俗学研究中所涉及的理论和方法;然后论述阿拉安人对民间叙事的自然分类,并与现代民俗学的相应"学术分类"进行比较,探讨在阿拉安人自然分类中所蕴含的当地的神话观;最终勾拟出由这些自然分类构成的、富有地方性色彩的"阿拉安-芒扬地方性民俗知识",阐释了在原住民主位式的神话观中神话与传说、民间故事之间的区别.     

美国菲律宾裔移民的历史考察

本文通过对美国菲律宾裔移民的移民历史、社会经济调整、文化适应、种族认同等问题进行考察,揭示美国 重要的亚裔群体之一——菲律宾裔移民的生活状况。     

Global Economic Changes and the Commodification of Human Capital: Implications of Filipino Nurse Migration

East Asia’s economic prowess strongly impacted the research agenda of scholars studying the region. Whereas analysts had once focused on military governments, relations of dependency, clientelism, and low modes of peasant movements, they now investigate industrialisation. In East Asia, the Philippines is the largest contributor of migrant labourers to the global workforce. Following recent discussions by Robert Putnam on the social aspect of investment, perhaps human capital might then be considered part of the industrialisation process? Channelling human resources towards expediting industrialisation can be a catalyst for development. This article seeks to combine a variety of theoretical literatures with insights gained from conducting fieldwork and available empirical data, presenting its main findings in two major parts. The first focuses on the relationship between human capital, migration and economic growth, and suggests that social capital, particularly human resources, can help economic growth in developing countries if channelled appropriately. The second is a case study of the Philippines as the second largest exporter of human labour in the world, with human capital as its largest export commodity. A key feature of the research identifies the significance of commodifying human capital. The author argues that maximizing human resources, as a potential and un-channelled catalyst for improved economic growth is a good investment in social capital. By transforming human resources into a trade commodity, this economic transaction between labour-sending (parent) and labour-receiving (host) countries becomes a rational process that takes on emotional qualities, and must be considered where the trade of human labour is concerned.     

The Future of the Rhodesias

Sir Alfred Beit has recently returned to this country aftera visit with a Parliamentary Delegation to Southern Africa.This article reproduces the more salient of the points he madein a lecture on the 29th November, under the Chairmanship ofSir John Chancellor, the first Governor of Southern Rhodesia.Sir Alfred is now Parliamentary Private Secretary to ColonelOliver Stanley.     

The problem of the straits

Siberian Development and East Asia. Threat or Promise? By Allen S. Whiting. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California. 1981. Pp. 276. Index, notes, maps. Price $22.50 (hardback).     

The Death of the PLO

The PLO, the article attempts to prove, is dead, contributing to the withering of Palestinian diaspora political life. If true, the life and death of the PLO is rife with the paradox of substantiating the most basic of Zionist claims that reterritorialization and the withering of diaspora can only be perceived as a trade-off with a deterministic end in favour of political territoriality. Palestinians face the tragedy of being divided in the territory of contestation and are farther than ever from achieving statehood, while in the near abroad and beyond they are hardly in a position to form a trans-state community.