The clandestine excavation of antiquities for profit is not a new enterprise: papyrus texts show it to have been a pressing problem in Ancient Egypt. But the scale of the traffic…
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The clandestine excavation of antiquities for profit is not a new enterprise: papyrus texts show it to have been a pressing problem in Ancient Egypt. But the scale of the traffic in looted antiquities is now said to be second only to that of drug smuggling in terms of annual turnover, and there is evidence that the traffic in antiquities and the traffic in drugs now often go hand in hand — especially when the antiquities in question derive from drug‐producing countries in South‐East Asia and in South America. Moreover, antiquities are at present relatively easy to market — they are highly fungible assets, and hence very suitable as a medium for money laundering.
Davide Nicolini, Juliane Reinecke and Muhammad Aneeq Ismail
In this paper, the authors explore the specific nature of material-based legitimation and examine how it differs from other forms of legitimation. Prior studies of institutional…
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In this paper, the authors explore the specific nature of material-based legitimation and examine how it differs from other forms of legitimation. Prior studies of institutional legitimacy have predominantly focused on the discursive and iconic aspects of legitimation, with much less focus placed on the role of materiality. To advance our argument, the authors introduce the notion of enactive legitimation. The authors suggest that legitimation is derived from and supported by the ongoing engagement and interaction with materials and material-based practices. To elaborate our argument, the authors study a case of the use of material signification to legitimize a new financial product within Islamic banking. The authors show that the legitimacy of the product is grounded in materials and the materiality of a number of ritualized practices. Materials and practices, however, also impose their own specific constraints on the process, and do so in ways that are more evident than when legitimation is based on signs and symbols (both language and images). The paper contributes to practice-based institutionalism by leveraging one of the central tenets of practice theory to extend the understanding of legitimation. It also illustrates what practice-based sensitivity may look like in action.
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Patricia A. McAnany and E. Christian Wells
Ritual economy is a theoretical approach for understanding and explaining the ways in which worldview, economy, power, and human agency interlink in society and social change…
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Ritual economy is a theoretical approach for understanding and explaining the ways in which worldview, economy, power, and human agency interlink in society and social change. Defined as the “process of provisioning and consuming that materializes and substantiates worldview for managing meaning and shaping interpretation,” this approach forefronts the study of human engagement with social, material, and cognitive realms of human experience. This chapter explores the theoretical roots of ritual economy and how they are expressed in this volume's contributions, which ground the discussion in actual case studies applied to both capitalistic and noncapitalistic settings across a number of different cultural contexts. By knitting together two realms of inquiry that often are sequestered into separate domains of knowledge, ritual economy exposes for analysis how the process of materializing worldview through ritual practice structures economic behavior without determining it.
Examines the economic basis of current approaches to analysing andforecasting the office property market. It considers both an aggregateregional and urban approach to these tasks…
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Examines the economic basis of current approaches to analysing and forecasting the office property market. It considers both an aggregate regional and urban approach to these tasks, and contrasts these with a disaggregated urban/intra‐urban approach. Notes the need for local area forecasting and argues that this is most appropriate at the urban level. Appraises the barriers to future development of aggregate urban models and notes that it is currently possible to use a disaggregated approach to provide detailed local forecasts. Critically reviews the disaggregated approach with the aid of a case study of the Paisley office market. Concludes that there are considerable shortcomings in data and in the understanding of office market dynamics, and that more analysis should precede the development of forecasting models.
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“Corporate planning” is the term which, perhaps more than any other, epitomises the adoption of business management techniques by the public sector. In Britain, with massive local…
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“Corporate planning” is the term which, perhaps more than any other, epitomises the adoption of business management techniques by the public sector. In Britain, with massive local government reorganisation in 1974, many librarians were forced to come to terms with such techniques whether they liked it or not. Of course, in its purest sense corporate planning applies to the combined operation of an entire organisation be it local authority, university, government department or industrial firm. However, in this paper I do not intend discussing “the grand design” whereby the library is merely a component part of a greater body. Rather, it is my intention to view the library as the corporate body. It is a perfectly possible and very useful exercise to apply the principles of corporate planning, and the management techniques involved, to the running of a library or group of libraries. Indeed, many librarians have already done this either independently or as their part in the corporate plan of their parent organisation.
Colin Mair, Arthur Midwinter and John Moxen
Trends in Scottish public library expenditure in the 1980s are examined, and resource allocation procedures and national trends are discussed. The index used to calculate library…
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Trends in Scottish public library expenditure in the 1980s are examined, and resource allocation procedures and national trends are discussed. The index used to calculate library material inflation rates are criticised and it is demonstrated that this leads to a misrepresentation of the basic expenditure pattern. The interpretation and implications of variations in spending between authorities are discussed.
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Ronald L. Wood has been named general manager of Howmet Corporation's Wichita Falls (Texas) Casting Division. In this position, he succeeds Thomas A. Natale, who recently was…
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Ronald L. Wood has been named general manager of Howmet Corporation's Wichita Falls (Texas) Casting Division. In this position, he succeeds Thomas A. Natale, who recently was appointed vice president of the company's Structural Casting Operations.
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