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Colin Renfrew illustrates how the most precious product of archaeology is the information that excavations can illuminate about out shared human past. Yet the illicit digging of archaeological sites for gain - i.e. looting - is destroying the context in which archaeological findings can be understood, as well as sabotaging the most valued information. Today’s art market is rife with the antiquities pilfered by these archaeological looters.
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A well thought-out position on this tricky issue. .......2007-05-04
I think a reader must approach all books on the issue of cultural patrimony with careful deference to differing sensibilities that exist on the issue. This book is presented from the standpoint of a very aggressive, European concept of patrimony, focusing (as its title implies) on the illicit looting of antiquities and their summary introduction into the free market antiquities trade (a practice which is disdained by anyone of conscience)
The book presents a mindful case on the nuances of antiquities ownership and buying, with a heavy emphasis on the importance of documented provenance. While I don't personally agree with all of the philosophical ideas promoted by the author, he certainly presents his position in a very professional and intelligent manner, worthy of consideration by everyone.
The only area where this book is slightly lacking was in addressing the issue of "old collection" antiquities, that often times were unapologetically assembled as a direct result of site looting- back during an age when such practices were viewed with far more permissiveness than they are today. This issue creates a very tricky nexus between private property rights and cultural patrimony rights that just doesn't have a morally clear, easy answer.
Overall, as a book, this one is a definite four stars. While not presented as a balanced perspective on the issue, it doesn't purport itself to be such, thus, it holds much validity as work of well thought-out opinion, representing one side of a two sided issue.
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Shoppers can express their values as they search for value. Political consumerism is turning the market into a site for politics and ethics, as consumer choices reflect personal attitudes and purchases are informed by ethical or political assessment of business and government practice. In such forms as boycotts, when consumers refuse to buy, or buycotts, where consumers shift their purchases, the ostensibly apolitical marketplace is a site of contestation at the intersection of globalization and individualization. This book opens readers' eyes to a new way of viewing everyday consumer choices and the role of the market in our lives, illuminating the broader theoretical and historical context of concerns about sweatshops, responsible coffee, and ethical and free trade.
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Imperiled Innocents
Nicola Beisel
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"Not only is Imperiled Innocents good sociology and good history, it also addresses timely public issues and is a pleasure to read. This is an exemplary work of historical sociology."--William H. Sewell, Jr., University of Chicago
Moral reform movements claiming to protect children began to emerge in the United States over a century ago, most notably when Anthony Comstock and his supporters crusaded to restrict the circulation of contraception, information on the sexual rights of women, and "obscene" art and literature. Much of their rhetoric influences debates on issues surrounding children and sexuality today. Drawing on Victorian accounts of pregnant girls, prostitutes, Free Lovers, and others deemed "immoral," Nicola Beisel argues that rhetoric about the moral corruption of children speaks to an ongoing parental concern: that children will fail to replicate or exceed their parents' social position. The rhetoric of morality, she maintains, is more than symbolic and goes beyond efforts to control mass behavior. For the Victorians, it tapped into the fear that their own children could fall prey to vice and ultimately live in disgrace.
In a rare analysis of Anthony Comstock's crusade with the New York and New England Societies for the Suppression of Vice, Beisel examines how the reformer worked on the anxieties of the upper classes. One tactic was to link moral corruption with the flood of immigrants, which succeeded in New York and Boston, where minorities posed a political threat to the upper classes. Showing how a moral crusade can bring a society's diffuse anxieties to focus on specific sources, Beisel offers a fresh theoretical approach to moral reform movements.
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Moral reform movements claiming to protect children began to emerge in the United States over a century ago, most notably when Anthony Comstock and his supporters crusaded to restrict the circulation of contraceptive devices, information on the sexual rights of women, and "obscene" art and literature. Much of their rhetoric influences debates on issues surrounding children and sexuality today. In a book filled with Victorian accounts of pregnant girls, prostitutes, abortionists, Free Lovers, and others deemed "immoral", Nicola Beisel argues that rhetoric about the moral corruption of children speaks to an ongoing parental concern: that children will fail to replicate or exceed their parents' social position. In a rare analysis of Anthony Comstock's crusade with the New York and New England Societies for the Suppression of Vice, Beisel examines how the reformer worked on the anxieties of the upper classes. Showing how a moral crusade can bring a society's diffuse anxieties to focus on specific sources, Beisel offers a fresh theoretical approach to moral reform movements.
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Reports from a Wild Country explores some of Australia's major ethical challenges. Written in the midst of rapid social and environmental change and in a time of undertainty and division, it offers powerful stories and arguments for ethical choice and commitment. The focus is on reconciliation between Indigenous and "Settler" peoples, and with nature.
With a distnictive and powerful voice, Deborah Bird Rose draws on case studies from across Australia to show pathways toward decolonization, and indicts a few that continue to perpetrate violence. Based on a pronounced moral engagement between past and present, the book affirms the power of ethics, resilience, and love in these difficult and demanding times.
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In the past decade the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains and funerary objects has become a lightning rod for radically opposing views about cultural patrimony and the relationship between Native communities and archaeologists. In this unprecedented volume, Native Americans and non-Native Americans within and beyond the academic community offer their views on repatriation and the ethical, political, legal, cultural, scholarly, and economic dimensions of this hotly debated issue. While historians and archaeologists debate continuing non-Native interests and obligations, Native American scholars speak to the key cultural issues embedded in their ancestral pasts. A variety of sometimes explosive case studies are considered, ranging from Kennewick Man to the repatriation of Zuni Ahayu:da. Also featured is a detailed discussion of the background, meaning, and applicability of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, as well as the text of the act itself.
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Edited volume exploring key issues in ethics for archaeologists. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics (One World Archaeology)
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The editors and contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its impact on the practice of the discipline. Pointing to the discipline's history of advancing imperialist, colonialist, and racist objectives, they insist that archaeology must rethink its muted professional stance and become more overtly active agents of change. The discipline is not about an abstract “archaeological record” but about living individuals and communities, whose lives and heritage suffer from the abuse of power relationships with states and their agents. Only by recognizing this power disparity, and adopting a political ethic for the discipline, can archaeology justify its activities. Chapters range from a critique of traditional ethical codes, to examinations of the capitalist motivations and structures within the discipline, to calls for an engaged, emancipatory archaeology that improves the lives of the people with whom archaeologists work. A direct challenge to the discipline, this volume will provoke discussion, disagreement, and inspiration for many in the field.
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A history of drugs is a study of cultures in competition, argues editor William O. Walker III. Eminently adaptive, drug cultures have competed with proscriptive cultures to create a legitimate place for themselves, although one that the dominant society m
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Through close observation of an Inuit child, psychological anthropologist Jean Briggs shows how cultural messages are transmitted in that society. Her riveting narrative not only opens a window into the world and development of this youngster but also offers a new theory of the relationship between individuality and culture.
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Great Book!.......2000-08-28
I actually met and spent some time with one of the elders that this book is about. We tend to over analyze cultures and look at them through a certain "gaze", possibly an anthropological one. However, when we do this we overlook the brilliance in some of the aspects in cultures and specifically books, we must read against the grain. If you've never spent any time in the north or with Inuit people, it is easy to misundertsand a lot of things. It's easy for a person to write a review strictly on the book and decide from one certain perspective that it doesn't meet their needs. I think this book is great and it must be noted that some understanding of Inuit culture might help you in looking at things in a slightly different context.
Lessons in micro-analysis.......2000-05-11
Jean Briggs' doctoral dissertation, _Never In Anger_ (1970), became one of the great classics of psychological anthropology, both for its incredible wealth of data on how individuals are drawn into cultural patterns (even in such apparently "biological" or "private" matters as emotions), and also for the impressive fieldwork itself (Briggs spent nearly two years in small tents or igloos, where in winter she had to warm up the interior sufficiently for the ink in her typewriter to unfreeze, with an unruly and undisciplined three-year-old). The first book has been cited as charter for an entire generation of researchers in the cross-cultural study of emotions. Unfortunately, this book was not worth the 27-year wait since its predecessor. It contains valuable information, as well as the condensed reflections of Briggs' career on the cultural patterning of emotions, but the style is somewhat repetitive, and the book should probably should have remained as the articles from which it was expanded.
Briggs does make a number of arguments about enculturation/socialization which seem accurate. Interactions are redundant (in that the same message will be given in multiple contexts on multiple occasions), overdetermined (in that many different messages or motives within them will push towards the same socialization outcome), polysemous (in that there are multiple, and sometimes quite complicated or conflicting messages within each drama), that adults and children are not both seeing all the levels (in fact, Briggs argues that this is one point of much of the interactions with children -- to get them to see the adult messages as well), and that in terms of symbolic associations to possible culturally relevant meanings, the system is fairly open. Finally, as she repeats again and again, each individual will obviously experience a different series of enculturating interactions. Different members of a culture will end up with similar, but not identical, profiles.
There is much here to suggest further studies, and specialists in this area would do well at least to browse through the analyses of childhood dramas. However, the book is frustrating. Briggs remains eclectic in her theoretical standpoint, which is puzzling from someone who has spent three decades examining these issues (a less charitable reader might say that she refuses to develop a systematic theory). The chapters are meant to build, but to a large degree they merely repeat each other with minor variations in theme. There is relatively little ethnographic context, and readers wanting to know more about the Inuit would be better advised to read _Never in Anger_. All in all, a somewhat disappointing book from an otherwise great ethnographer.
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Hilton/Maher/Selto (HMS) addresses traditional cost concepts, but makes cost accounting functional by focusing on measuring and managing costs. HMS maintains that, "Costs don’t just happen," and with a pro-active approach toward costs, accountants can add value to an organization. The real-world approach of this text, including the use of focus companies and the accompanying focus sites, provides a realistic business environment, and aids in student comprehension and interest in the subject.
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Hilton/Maher/Selto (HMS) addresses traditional cost concepts, but makes cost accounting functional by focusing on measuring and managing costs. HMS maintains that, “Costs don’t just happen,” and with a pro-active approach toward costs, accountants can add value to an organization. Faculty will appreciate the new and more conventional chapter organization in the first two sections of the text. The real-world approach of this text, including the use of focus companies and the new accompanying focus sites, provides a realistic business environment, and aids in student comprehension and interest in the subject.
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Deceiving.......2007-01-15
I thought I was purchasing the book. This listing is the CD ONLY. On the return, I had to pay back the super saver shipping I had received in addition to the cost of shipping the CD back. By the time I reordered, the lower cost listings were gone. Costly error.
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This is the first tell-it-like-it-is, easy-to-read book for company owners and managers who want to know more about 401(k) plans, implement one in their organization, or improve an existing plan. It provides information on why 401(k)s are so popular and how virtually any company can benefit by making the plans available. Butler explains all of the available programs, and spells out the advantages and disadvantages associated with each.
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Excellent overview, easy-to-read.......1998-08-01
I have to put in a 401k plan for a small business. I knew nothing about them and had to get a quick overview. This book was very helpful.
The book is unusually clear and easy-to-read. Very well organized with many summaries. I read most of it in just 4 hours on a night flight when I was really jet lagged. Yet I still easily read it -- just my kind of book.
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Strategies for Generating E-Business Returns on Investment
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Companies invest in e-business and its supporting technology for their e-business initiatives. E-business applications such as supply chain management and customer relationship management improve transaction efficiency and scope economies as well as promoting new product and service offerings and close customer relationships. However, it is difficult for companies to capture these benefits as economic value or profits. Many companies launching e-businesses have not been successful at creating economic value. To justify continued expenditures, it may be necessary for IT managers to move beyond simply demonstrating the benefits of technology and objectively demonstrate the increase in economic value these technologies can produce. To create value from e-business, companies may have to develop appropriate strategies or unique value propositions to complement their e-business investments. This book presents a group of studies that yield significant new insights into the creation of e-business value.
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