Landscapes of the Ghost Dance: A Cartography of Numic Ritual

Recent historical and ethnographic research indicates that the study of ritual behavior could be greatly enhanced by combining parameters of place and landscape use with interpretation of material culture. This strategy is especially useful for identifying the archaeological record of ritual among societies that incorporated topographic features and natural resources into their liturgical order. In this article we apply a behavioral framework to the study of Numic ritual technologies. By intergrating ethnographic and historic data on the geography, practice, and material culture of the nineteenth-century Nevada Ghost Dance, we demonstrate how this framework helps to determine the configuration of a ritual place and its position relative to other ritual and nonritual places.     

众信国旅邀你猜猜这是哪儿？

这个国家位于不列颠群岛最大一个岛上,这是是欧洲大陆伸向大西洋的最西处,是古代北美通往欧洲的咽喉要冲。     

众信国旅邀你猜猜这是哪儿？

地理位置：太平洋南部、介于南极和赤道之间 气候特征：海洋型温带气候 关键词：指环王、南阿尔卑斯山、地球上纬度最靠南的首都 大约8000万到1亿年前,这片土地飘移到了南太平洋,这个孤悬于地球角落里的地方由此保存了地球上最为奇特的物种：不会飞的鸟,体重最大的昆虫和恐龙……这里仿佛与世界其他地方远隔了一道8000万年的时光墙。     

猜猜这是哪儿

地理位置：北美洲南部．拉丁美洲西北端．是南、北美洲陆路交通的必经之地气候特征：北部是热带沙漠气候,南部为热带雨林气候     

The Missouri Natural Streams Act (1990): How an Environmental Campaign Was Waged and Lost * Lord, We're Just Trying to Save Your Water

Both using oral history to recount environmental battles inthe South, these two studies could not be more different. Onefeatures a participant-observer approach to several regionalissues and the other an analysis of one complex electoral campaignin one state. Bradley reports on an almost forgotten, even by Google, effortto control unsuitable developments along ninety-one Missouririvers. A regional freelance reporter at the time, I rememberwhat was "unsuitable," and the issue of how to regulate suchvaluable real estate became quite     

What’s new in the ‘New Partnership for Africa’s Development’?

This article provides an overview of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) in the context of Africa's current economic and governance crises, the attempt to establish an Africa Union, and the interest in Africa displayed by the G8 leadership and in particular by the UK's prime minister Tony Blair.
NEPAD has to be seen simultaneously as a 'big idea', a new way of doing business, and a comprehensive development framework. The 'big idea' is to put Africa's concerns on the table of the G8 and seek a much better deal for Africa in terms of international aid, debt relief and access to markets. The new way of doing business is a new form of 'enhanced' development partnership that makes both donor and recipient mutually accountable for development outcomes. The development framework is a long—and expanding—list of programmes and projects, akin to those that have been tried before.
The heart of NEPAD is a commitment to good governance, operationalized through a radical plan for 'peer review' of governance performance. This promises a radical new approach to development partnership, but it also faces political hazards. The governance component is also analysed in the context of the pan–Africa institutions envisaged by the African Union. There is a need for coordinating and rationalizing peace and security initiatives. NEPAD may unlock additional financing for development, but it should not be seen as a cash cow.
The challenges for NEPAD include opening up the process to make it more participatory, including greater focus on HIV/AIDS. NEPAD faces the real danger of being over–sold and of raising unrealistic expectations among Africans. It is, nevertheless, an outstanding opportunity for Africa's development.     

Explaining the Failure of Thailand's Anti‐corruption Regime

Despite the presence of strong anti‐corruption policies, state and regulatory capture may persist and thrive in the highest echelons of government. This article explores such a case, that of Thailand under former Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra. The author argues that the primary explanation for this contradiction lies in Thailand's post‐1997 anti‐corruption framework. Because of the ascendancy of a business–politics nexus more powerful in blocking reform than Thai constitutional drafters had anticipated, and because of the decline in political contestability as a result of Thaksin's control of both the legislature and the executive, the stage was set for a dramatic increase in the levels of state capture. The author suggests that effective control of such political corruption calls for a strategy which extends far beyond the technocratic approaches used by Thai reformers in the mid to late 1990s.     

Rewriting Carlyle and Scottish cultural history

Carlyle and Scottish Thought. By Ralph Jessop (London: Macmillan, 1997) xvii + 266 pp. £40.00 cloth.     

FACTS, VALUES AND RATIONAL DECISION MAKING

This paper introduces some distinctions related to facts and values, indicates some of the uses and misuses of these distinctions, and draws conclusions for the problem of rational decision making. A major claim is that everyone but metaphysicians should forget about the fact-value distinction and get on with the pursuit of truth and the performance of good deeds.