Mad-Stones in North Carolina

SIGURDS STRID MED FÅVNE : en studie rörande Hjältesagens forhällande till folkdiktningen, af C. W. von SYDOW. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

SKATTSÄGNER : en studie i jämfärande folkminnesforskning, af TOBIAS NORLIND. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

DIE ENTSTEHUNG UND RELIGIÖSE BEDEUTUNG DESGRIECHISCHEN KALENDERS, von MARTIN P. NILSSON. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.     

The Process of Policy Innovation: Prison Sitings in Rural North Carolina

We gauge the relative impact of economics, demographics, and politics on the decisions of 79 rural North Carolina counties whether to site a prison in the period 1970–2000. The results of this model demonstrate that, contrary to the expectation that counties site prisons in response to economic distress, the demographic characteristics of each county affect the relative likelihood of a prison siting more than its economics does. The influential demographic predictors are those inextricably bound up with development options—the education levels of its citizens—and those that limit its ability to pursue controversial projects—its not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) constituencies—rather than those that measure its racial diversity. Therefore, prison siting is neither a simple story of economic determinism nor one of environmental racism. We use a proportional hazards regression to model this innovation adoption in response to the challenge to select methods that take the potential time dependence of adoptions into account. A duration model is also particularly suitable for cases such as this one for which the innovation adoption is better understood as a process than as an event.     

陈宏谋研究综述

陈宏谋的思想具有巨大的超前性以及与世界潮流的同步性。国内外学者的共同关注将陈宏谋的研究引向了一个更为广阔的视野,同时也把陈宏谋研究的学术价值提高到了一个前所未有的高度。近年来,在国内,尤其是在广西掀起了陈宏谋研究的热潮,产生了不少成果,及时总结和梳理已有研究成果,将会对世界的陈宏谋研究的进一步深入和发展有所裨益。     

Western North Carolina: Culture Hearth of Bluegrass Music

This study explores the long-debated question concerning the geographic origins of bluegrass music. Using the Sauerian culture hearth concept, western North Carolina is identified as the source area for the distinguishing elements of the bluegrass sound. Western North Carolinians pioneered the innovative instrumental sounds of bluegrass on the five-string banjo, fiddle, and guitar as well as the harmonies and repertoire of bluegrass vocals. A music culture infrastructure emerged in western North Carolina based on a network of local musicians and social institutions, including fiddle contests, music festivals, radio stations, and recording studios.     

"Own a Home in North Carolina": Image and Reality in Ethnic European Colonies

Between 1905 and 1912, six planned farm colonies were developed in southeastern North Carolina. The dream of Wilmington utilities magnate Hugh MacRae, the colonies were visualized as an experiment in "human engineering" to create a "back to the land" movement as a remedy to the economic ills of the rural South. The six communities (Castle Haynes, Marathon, St. Helena, Van Eeden, New Berlin and Artesia) were anomalies in the rural South in that they were miniature "melting pots" for the flood of European immigrants who flocked to America in the early 1900s. Through the use of documentary photographs, promotional propaganda brochures and oral histories, the material culture of the colonies is explored and analyzed. The images of the spatial patterns and house types that were created in the minds of the potential colonists by the promotional literature are contrasted with the stark realities of the landscapes that confronted the settlers upon arrival.     

匈奴、鲜卑的人种学研究综述

中国北方位于欧亚大草原东端,自古以来便存在着一条以蒙古高原为中心的草原游牧文化带.在这条文化带上,由于自然环境和经济类型的共性,历史上曾先后崛起过众多强悍的游牧民族,他们在中国北方乃至整个北亚地区的政治、军事、历史方面都起到了举足轻重的作用.其中,匈奴、鲜卑就是其杰出代表.     

水下文化遗产原址保护研究概述

长年埋藏于水下的文化遗产,在适应周围的化学、物理及生态环境后可达到一种平衡的保存状态。通过概述水下埋藏环境对文物产生的影响,并对国外文物保护工作者在沉船、水下文物点、古代聚落遗址等类型水下文化遗产原址保护的成果进行研究,为中国水下文化遗产保护相关工作的开展提供一定的借鉴。     

Governance,Policy Innovation,and Local Economic Development in North Carolina

This article examines the extent to which local governments in North Carolina embrace innovation in their economic development activities. The study makes a distinctive theoretical contribution by examining the relationship between innovation in how economic development policies are administered and implemented (using concepts associated with governance and NPM), and innovation in what is substantively done (policy innovation). An analysis of the results from a statewide survey of local governments in North Carolina finds that certain governance/management variables are significant determinants of economic development policy innovation. An implication of this finding is that new ways of doing economic development may go hand‐in‐hand with new ways of governing and managing. Many of the governance/management variables are also positively associated with the use of a greater number of traditional economic development strategies and tools. This suggests that local governments may find it helpful to be innovative in how they implement economic development irrespective of the substantive policy orientation of particular strategies and tools.