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Recent opinion polls suggest that farmland preservation is one of the most widely shared goals for local land use planning in Wisconsin. Although the state has long been a leader in the use of tax and zoning policy tools to protect agricultural lands from residential or commercial development, continued high rates of farmland loss have cast doubt on their effectiveness. This paper critically examines statistical evidence for the effectiveness of farmland tax credit and exclusive agricultural zoning policies in Wisconsin. Using data collected at the township level (the local unit of land use decision-making in most counties), and controlling for the influence of other factors, the findings suggest that tax credits and zoning have had very limited success at mediating spatial patterns of farmland loss. Evidence from case studies of town government decision-making is then used to help explain why traditional land use policies have been unimpressive. Among the findings is the fact that local communities often fail to embrace or rigorously enforce land use plans or zoning districts.

Preface and acknowledgements / Alejandro Lugo -- Prologue: rereading and remembering Michelle Rosaldo / Louise Lamphere -- The legacy of Michelle Rosaldo: politics and gender in modern societies / Alejandro Lugo and Bill Maurer -- Land, labor, and gender / Carol MacCormack -- Destabilizing the masculine, refocusing "gender": men and the aura of authority in Michelle Z. Rosaldo's work / Alejandro Lugo -- Sexualities and separate spheres: gender, sexual identity, and work in Dominica and beyond / Bill Maurer -- The domestic/public in Mexico City: notes on theory, social movements, and the essentializations of everyday life / Miguel Diaz Barriga -- Victorian visions / Jane F. Collier -- A (short) cultural history of Mexican machos and hombres / Matthew C. Gutmann -- Myths of the bourgeois woman: rethinking race, class, and gender / Christine E. Gray -- The use and abuse of feminist theory: fear, dust, commensality / Ana Maria Alonso. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Dieser Aufsatz erschien zuerst 1999 in der Zeitschrift "KAS-Auslandsinformationen" und beschäftigt sich mit den gewalttätigen Übergriffen gegen Christen und christliche Einrichtungen in Indien. Diese haben zwar auch weltweit, vor allem aber in Indien selber sehr viel Beachtung gefunden. "Christ sein als ein Verbrechen", lautete die Überschrift in der Times of India am 8.1.1999, und im Untertitel hieß es: "Die Staatsbürgerschaft wird ans Kreuz geschlagen". Der vorliegende Beitrag versucht nicht nur, den tagespolitischen Erklärungen, sondern auch den tieferliegenden Ursachen nachzugehen.

This article examines some of the political and symbolic issues inherent in the touristic renegotiation of Torajan ritual and history, chronicling the strategies whereby Torajans attempt to refashion outsider imagery to enhance their own personal standing and position in the Indonesian ethnic hierarchy. The author suggests that the Toraja case challenges the popular assumption that tourism promotion brings a complete loss of agency to indigenous peoples: Torajans not only engage in ingenious political strategies to enhance their group's image, but vigorously contest perceived threats to their identity and power. The author argues that such processes of self-conscious cultural reformulation do not necessarily imply a collapse in meanxngor emotive power; rather, the Toraja case lends support to recent calls to rethink the discourse of "authenticity" and "staged authenticity."

Presents an overview of Mexican social anthropoligist Ricardo Pozas Arciniega's influence on sociological theory, methodology, focus, & practice in Mexico, 1942-present. Pozas's major books & social projects helped focus Mexican political science on the struggles of the indigenous rural workers throughout the country, particularly in the south. His ethnographic studies in Chiapas incorporated new methods of analysis that examined structural cause & the dynamics between a people & their environment. His involvement with the construction of a terrace farming system in Chiapas illustrates his goals of creating a work environment that produces not only the project itself, but health, education, shelter, & other needs for the population involved. D. Bajo

Ernest Gellner's understanding of the social role of absurdity is discussed & illustrated with examples of how different kinds of irrationality have social consequences. Gellner notes that anthropologists often attempt to explain away apparent incongruities with two principles of charitable interpretation: elastic contextualization & underlying structuralism. It is argued that moral & cognitive uncertainty is universal & expressed through incoherence. Absurdity may also be the consequence of a mistake or stupidity. Carlo M. Cipolla's (1989) useful analysis of stupidity is shown to be widely applicable. There is considerable reluctance to call stupid incoherence perceived by ethnographers, but not their hosts. It is argued that the recognition of absurdity is often superior to the principle of charity when interpreting societies. 28 References. H. von Rautenfeld