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Sixth Biennial Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference

Sixth Biennial Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference

61 st Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

61 st Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

60th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

60th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

60th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

60th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

60th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

(2002). 60th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 47, No. 181, pp. 192-192.

59th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

(2001). 59th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 46, No. 177, pp. 326-326.

59th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

59th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

58th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference to be held in conjunction with the 46th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference

(2000). 58th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference to be held in conjunction with the 46th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 45, No. 172, pp. 154-154.

58th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference to be held in conjunction with the 46th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference

58th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference to be held in conjunction with the 46th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference

58th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference to be held in conjunction with the 46th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference

58th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference to be held in conjunction with the 46th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference

Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Anthropology NewsVolume 41, Issue 2 p. 71-71 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference Announcements Cyndi Dunn, Corresponding Author Cyndi Dunn Contributing Editor SLA column co-editor; Dept of English, U North Texas, Box 311307, Denton, TX 76203-1307; tel 940/565-3311, cdunn@unt.edu. SLA column co-editor and linganth email list administrator; Dept of Anth/Ling, Sonoma State U, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park CA 94928-3609; tel 707/664-2307, fax 664-3920, richard.senghas@sonoma.edu.Search for more papers by this authorRichard Senghas, Corresponding Author Richard Senghas Contributing Editor SLA column co-editor; Dept of English, U North Texas, Box 311307, Denton, TX 76203-1307; tel 940/565-3311, cdunn@unt.edu. SLA column co-editor and linganth email list administrator; Dept of Anth/Ling, Sonoma State U, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park CA 94928-3609; tel 707/664-2307, fax 664-3920, richard.senghas@sonoma.edu.Search for more papers by this author Cyndi Dunn, Corresponding Author Cyndi Dunn Contributing Editor SLA column co-editor; Dept of English, U North Texas, Box 311307, Denton, TX 76203-1307; tel 940/565-3311, cdunn@unt.edu. SLA column co-editor and linganth email list administrator; Dept of Anth/Ling, Sonoma State U, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park CA 94928-3609; tel 707/664-2307, fax 664-3920, richard.senghas@sonoma.edu.Search for more papers by this authorRichard Senghas, Corresponding Author Richard Senghas Contributing Editor SLA column co-editor; Dept of English, U North Texas, Box 311307, Denton, TX 76203-1307; tel 940/565-3311, cdunn@unt.edu. SLA column co-editor and linganth email list administrator; Dept of Anth/Ling, Sonoma State U, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park CA 94928-3609; tel 707/664-2307, fax 664-3920, richard.senghas@sonoma.edu.Search for more papers by this author First published: 07 July 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/an.2000.41.2.71.3AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume41, Issue2February 2000Pages 71-71 RelatedInformation

57th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

57th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

56th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

56th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

55Th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

55Th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

Third Biennial Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference

(1996). Third Biennial Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 41, No. 158, pp. 398-398.

53rd Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

(1995). 53rd Annual Plains Anthropological Conference. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 40, No. 153, pp. 222-222.

The Tenth SVA Visual Anthropology Conference

The Tenth SVA Visual Anthropology Conference

53rd Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

53rd Annual Plains Anthropological Conference

Racial Inequality in Singapore

Abstract This paper examines racial inequality in Singapore front a dual economy perspective. Data come from the 1982-88 Report in The Census of Industrial Production and Labour Force Survey. Findings show that the dual economy theory is not useful in explaining racial inequality. Racial minorities are not overrepresented in the core as predicted by the theory. However, the decomposition of incomes shows that income inequalities among racial groups are due to discrimination. The source of this discrimination is the segregation of racial minorities in lower paying occupations and industries. The helpful comments of John Dixon and the reviewer are gratefully acknowledged. Earlier visions of this research were presented in the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Conference, Calgary, Canada (1994) and the Fourth Southeast Asia Business Research Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan (1993). Address all comments to the author at the Department of Social Sciences, Lingnan College, 15 Stubbs Road, Hong Kong.

Urban Anthropology in China (review)

130 China Review International: Vol. ?, No. ?, Spring 1994 Greg Guldin and Aidan Southall, editors. Urban Anthropology in China Leiden, New York, and Köln: E. J. Brill, 1993. copyright1994 by University of Hawai'i Press This volume is a collection ofpapers presented at the First International Urban Anthropology Conference in Beijing in December 1989. Although the title is Urban Anthropology, most of the contributions are from other disciplines including urban planning, sociology, and history. Each of the twenty-two substantive papers (divided into four sections) stands alone. As editor Greg Guldin points out, "there is a distinct gap in the traditions of scholarship and stylistic formulae between the Chinese and foreign contributors, but there is no unanimity among the Chinese participants as well. Urban Anthropology in China thus encompasses scholars from Europe, Asia, and North America, each variously pursuing their own individual and national versions of urban anthropology." Indeed, there is virtually no discussion ofthe many empirical and conceptual differences that emerge between the various essays except for the introductory remarks which editor Aidan Southall provides for each of the four sections. Ifthere is one theme that runs through this disparate assemblage ofessays, it might be the question of the uniqueness of Chinese cities in view ofWesternderived models of modernization and urbanization. One point that emerges in most ofthe essays concerns the nature ofboth the distinction and the relationship between the words "rural" and "urban" when applied to China. There seem to be three distinct approaches to addressing this question. First is the Marxist approach, which views changes in the city as caused by changes in the mode of production. Aidan Southall, the strongest proponent of this view, takes a very long-term historical—and thus highly generalized—look at how the form and function of Chinese cities have oscillated between the centralizing forces of the "Asiatic" mode and the decentralizing forces of the "Feudal" mode of production . This analysis is too generalized and inconclusive to convince me ofits theoretical merit. On the other hand, Southall makes a number of pithy observations to the effect that the Marxist ideal of creating a society in which the city and the countryside merge into a unified field of economic and cultural activity has been accomplished to a much greater extent in the advanced capitalist countries than in China or the other "socialist" countries. This raises the question ofjust what impact the socialist mode ofproduction has had on cities. Ivan Szelenyi holds that, compared to capitalist development, socialism in the industrializing cities of Eastern Europe limited economic and Reviews 131 cultural diversity and lessened the pressure to economize on space, and this resulted in lower population densities and a lowered level ofsocial marginality. On the other hand, the experience ofthe Soviet Union, according to Ovsey Shkaratan, was somewhat different. Contrary to Marxist expectations that socializing the means ofproduction would give planners leverage to reallocate economic and cultural assets beyond the urban centers, the very centralization of decision making , especially with the rise of Stalin, concentrated most ofthe assets and people in a few huge urban centers. One of the problems that socialist societies encounter as they rejoin the capitalist system is how to reclassify and recalculate the value of state-owned and other forms of socialized land used for productive and consumptive purposes. VesnaVucinic discusses this in terms of the ideological rationalizations behind China's urban land-reform movement of the 1980s. Three positions were staked out—the orthodox Marxist, the capitalist liberal, and the pragmatic compromise . The pragmatists borrowed the "capitalist" mechanisms and renamed and modified them to fit into a reformed socialist system. The second approach taken by contributors to this volume is an applied systems approach, which is the provenance of city planners. These authors are concerned with modeling the political and cultural interventions that shape the material conditions of urban society. Two of the contributors discuss the need to develop models ofurban planning and development that reflect the particular and regional cultural realities of Chinese, Asian, and Third World cities. Tridib Banerjee uses the dual-economy model (an economic system composed of"informal " small-scale enterprise and "formal" large-scale enterprise) to compare the postcolonial developments ofShanghai and Calcutta...