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Acting globally: Eco-politics in Papua New Guinea
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/journal/vol3no3/kirsch.html
This article, by Stuart Kirsch, Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology and a Fellow in Urgent Anthropology of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the University of London, covers the mining industry and its impacts on the environment and the Ok Tedi River as well as the Yonggom community that live around it. The Yonggom have become political activists in order to protect their remaining land and resources. 30,000 indigenous peoples filed a lawsuit against Broken Hill Propriety Company, Ltd. (BHP), Australia's largest corporation which owns and operates Ok Tedi Mining Ltd. Kirsch then goes on to explain the 'trend': "The Yonggom case is part of a growing trend. One of the defining features of late capitalism is the completion of a process began centuries ago: the extension of the global economic system into the unexploited regions of the Earth. In the world's remaining equatorial rain forests, indigenous communities often come into conflict with the states and transnational corporations which seek to exploit their natural resources. These conflicts may have tragic consequences when states fail to protect people from the degradation caused by logging, mining and petroleum projects." This further serves to bring the category of 'indigenous' to the forefront in world politics.
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Ancient Law by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/het/maine/anclaw.htm
This is the full-text of the book published by Maine in 1861. Maine was a lecturer on jurisprudence at Oxford and Cambridge universities and the founder of anthropological jurisprudence as an aspect of comparative law. This work and his "Lectures on the Early History of Institutions" have had a lasting influence on legal anthropology. This book is published on the Web as part of the McMaster History of Economic Thought Archive.
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Anthropological Perspectives on Corruption, by Tone Kristin Sissener
http://www.cmi.no/publications/publication/?910=anthropological-perspective
"The primary concern of this paper is to present anthropological perspectives on corruption. The emphasis is on how anthropological methods and approaches can contribute to a broader understanding of corruption. International debates on how to approach the phenomenon are ongoing, but corruption is generally defined as the abuse of public office for private gain. It is argued that this conventional definition is too narrow and excessively concerned with the illegality of practices. Explorations of how the actors themselves evaluate social practices are seen as essential. Variations in social experiences and cultural values may explain why corruption remains ambiguous."[Author's abstract.] This article is published as Working Paper WP 2001:5 from the Chr. Michelsen Institute. The author is on the research staff of the Institute.
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Cultural relativism and universal human rights, by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
http://anthropology.si.edu/outreach/anthnote/Winter98/anthnote.html#CULTURA
Cultural relativism asserts that since each culture has its own inherent integrity with unique values and practices, value judgements should be withheld or suspended until cultural context is taken into account. While some anthropologists would still agree with this view, others, both inside the field and outside, especially in the arena of human rights, are challenging this concept. This paper explores some of the issues raised by this change of attitude using as case studies female genital mutilation and domestic violence. The author, who is Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College, concludes that anthropologists can aid international dialogue enormously by developing approaches to universal human rights that are respectful of cultural considerations but are morally responsible. The article is published in AnthroNotes, Vol. 20 No.2., 1998.
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Liming in Trinidad: the Art of Doing Nothing by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/Liming.html
"This article sets out to explore the dynamic interrelations of systems of morality in an urban setting in Trinidad. It is shown how ethics of respectability and ethics of reputation, familiar from the anthropological literature on the Caribbean, interact in different kinds of contexts. Instead of regarding the two moralities as properties of classes or persons, they are seen as two sides of the same coin; i.e., as sets of norms and values which, although contradictory and in theory mutually exclusive, every Trinidadian must relate to. The focus is on the relationship of the institution of liming - the art of idling - to other aspects of Trinidadian society, notably those relating to wagework and the production of national symbols". This article was first published in Folk vol.32, 1990. Thomas Hylland Eriksen is an anthropologist at the University of Oslo and this paper is one of a wide range of publications available at his website.
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Sources on Anthropology and Law, by C. Fennell
http://www.anthro.uiuc.edu/faculty/cfennell/syllabus/anthlawbib.htm
A non-exhaustive bibliography of books, articles and other resources spanning the period from the 1960s to the present day and addressing a wide range of issues in Anthropology and Law, including: human rights; legal pluralism; rights of minorities and religious groups; rights of indigenous peoples; alternative methods of dispute or conflict resolution; and analysis of the cultural dynamics at play within western legal systems. Dr. Christopher Fennell is based at the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois.
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