Recasting Anthropology: Praxis, People, and Possibilities

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Chapter 5: Law and regulation

The roots of contract archeology were laid even before the development of a legislative framework that prescribed the processes to be followed. Contract archeology was being seen by the museums and universities as the best avenue to the subsidizing of archeological research. The increased research funding of the 1960s and 1970s was on the decline in the 1980s. Universities, therefore, were at a disadvantage and needed to explore other avenues of funding. Legislative changes over the years, which made it mandatory for developers to fund impact assessments to mitigate potential damage of valuable heritage resources from their proposed activities, have led to a significant proliferation of private archeological companies. These have been established to provide developers with the expertise they need to satisfy these legal requirements. The approach used in South Africa is that the developer must pay to assess the nature of the likely impact of their proposed activity. Government entities are then tasked with the responsibility of reviewing studies undertaken by specialists subcontracted by developers. The subdiscipline of archeology has grown significantly in South Africa, specifically enabled by legislative changes over the years requiring that predevelopment assessments of heritage sites be undertaken prior to approvals being made. However, archeology has continued to be defined as racially unrepresentative of the South African demography. In addition, the management of heritage resources through the use of contract archeology has been characterized by a variety of administrative challenges.

Having been involved in both contract and academic archaeology in recent<br />years, I have heard (and sympathized with) a pervasive lament. It seems increasingly common that even the best contract archaeology is rarely published, but compiled into reports that disappear into state repositories and contract firm offices, never again to be thought of except (maybe) when it comes time to write the next report. There is an increasing body of both gray literature and gray excavation: work that is done in compliance with state and federal laws but which never reaches an audience of more than a dozen or so readers. Given this discouraging trend, the compendious The Buried Past is a welcomed synthesis of several generations of aca­demic and CRM investigations into the historical archaeology of the Greater Philadelphia region.

This chapter presents a critical discussion on the current standards regarding the protection of Brazilian archaeological heritage and the main results from their application. The discussion is carried out by an analysis on the role of the National Institute for Historical and Artistic Heritage Preservation —IPHAN and the archaeological companies for the archaeological data collection and preservation. From this discussion, we argue that there is an erroneous routing of these issues, inasmuch as IPHAN has been increasingly slow in the process, and only concerned with the knowledge spreading as “Heritage Education”. Paradoxically, agents do not seem to realize that there can be no knowledge spreading without knowledge production, as well as the role of archaeology companies in this area has proved to be scarce. In this process, we point out that the academic archaeology, which is really responsible for the knowledge generation, is increasingly placed in the backstage.

The increase rate of the world's Muslim population has affected the trend of the global halal industry. This situation leads to the increase demand for food, products and services with the Halal Certification (HC) status. HC is a process of examining and evaluating products or services that comply with halal requirement in accordance to Shariah law. Products and services with the HC status will help the consumer to make consumption decision easily. In Malaysia, HC system is governed by Halal Certification Body (HCB) at federal and state level. HC consists of several processes and one of the important processes is Halal Inspection (HI). This paper aims to identify the problem in HI and determine the differences in the implementation of HI practices by HCB between state and federal level. A qualitative approach has been employed which involves interviews with five halal experts. They are the auditors from HCB at federal and state level. This study adapts the Work System Framework (WSF) to gain understanding of the HI process. The results reveal that the limited number of halal auditors may contribute to HC inefficiency. Although both HCB follow the same HC guidelines and manual, the HI implementation is slightly different. On top of that, the HC scheme that is available at federal and state level are also different. In future, these findings will help to extent the research on the use of Information Technology (IT) such as virtual technology in the HI process.

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SUMMARY: After 50 years of existence, it is appropriate to review the history of the Society, and appreciate what it has achieved not only through its conferences and publications but also in its success in promoting the archaeology of recent centuries. From a position of rare part-time interest in this period by a few enthusiasts in 1966 we can now celebrate explicit post-medieval specialists within museum, state, local government, contract, and academic archaeology, with representatives active within the Society.

Ending Deference?: Why Some State Supreme Courts have Chosen to Reject Deference and Others Have Not

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In the United States, trust in government across the federal, state, and local levels has been on the decline for decades. With increasing polarization and politicization, the work of public administrators is frequently made more difficult by challenges that stem from low levels of public trust—responding to these challenges as well as recent calls that encourage public administrators to regain the trust of the public they serve. Could public service motivation (PSM) promote trust in government? We examine the association between PSM and trust in government across the federal, state, and local levels of government in the United States. We find that the association between PSM and governmental trust varies by level of government. At the state and local levels, PSM is positively associated with trust in government. However, we find no significant relationship between PSM and trust at the federal level. Thus, there exists the potential for state and local administrators to use PSM to build trust in the government and to facilitate improved policy implementation. Our findings also provide insight into how key predictors of public trust in government vary at the federal, state, and local levels of the U.S. government.