The Role of Russian Big Business in Local Development

The paper, based in part on field surveys in 2006, examines the role played by large Russian companies in local development, focusing on the operations of SUAL and Severstal' in Northwest Russia. The two companies provide examples of different models of corporate behavior (transnational and paternalist) in the current Russian business environment, reflecting a choice more broadly between neoliberal and corporate-nationalistic versions of Russia's participation in globalization. The author investigates the implications of the different models for the local jurisdictions in which these companies operate. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: D21, L20, O18, P20. 2 figures, 1 table, 48 references.     

Visible Men and Elusive Women

Early gender archaeology formulated two statements: men are visible, women are invisible, and men work in hard materials, women work in soft materials. We discuss these dichotomies in connection with nineteenth-century folklore and an excavated eighteenth-century cottage at a summer-farm. We conclude that much of the gendered order-of-work tasks broke down in pragmatic day-to-day life, especially by women crossing the gender border. However, social chaos was held at bay by ritual acts and magic objects.     

Women and Law in Colonial India: A Social History

Book reviewed in this article: Women and Law in Colonial India: A Social History, by Srimati Basu.     

身份认同、社会资本与商业拓展——马来西亚的中国回族商人个案研究

论文基于社会资本的理论视角,考察了马来西亚中国回族移民的概况,以中国回族移民在马来西亚从事纺织品业、旅游业和教育中介业的商人及企业为个案,考察中国回族商人如何在马来西亚的多元族群社会及政治经济环境中协商、重构并利用其"中国人"与"穆斯林"的身份,积极建立并维护社会关系网络,获取并积累社会资本。研究显示,马来西亚的社会背景因素,连同中国回族移民基于宗教认同与族群认同而建立的在当地的社会网络以及与中国的跨国网络,从中获得商业合伙人的信任、政府的支持以及社会资源,成为了促进中国回族移民在马来西亚商业发展的社会资本。     

Evidence of Social Stratification in Bronze Age Denmark

Abstract

The Late Bronze Age hoards (12th–6th centuries B.C.) from Denmark are examined as evidence of the existence of social ranking in that prehistoric society. The hoards contain bronze weapons and ornaments which seem to function as sumptuary goods and appear to be ranked according to regular rules. The hoards also represent economic wealth and include objects of ritual importance. This intersection, in single finds, of material reflections of the political, religious, and economic systems in the society, along with the inferred existence of social ranking, suggests the presence of a prehistoric chiefdom in Denmark in the Late Bronze Age.