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ABSTRACTIn contexts of severe illness in Northern Thailand, many conceive of themselves as combinations of beings assembled through the binding ethical force of karma. Scholars working in many world areas have built frameworks for understanding "complex" (distributed, partible, fluid, transient) personhood. In this article, I bring these frameworks into conversation with ethical theory to ask how one can make sense of ethical action when one is always already partly the other. For many in Northern Thailand, the answer is anethical and hauntological choreography; rather than relying only on rational frameworks for right action or cultivating individual ethical dispositions, people seek to assemble optimal elements—other people, beings that have become components of themselves, material objects infused with ethical force—into scenes where the residual karmic "stickiness" of all can be unmade. This unmaking is achieved through a form of forgiveness and kindness that moves beyond individual agency. [personhood, ethics, ontology, haunting, Buddhism, Thailand]

A new study of Chinese projects in one African nation offers a nuanced picture of a distinct type of state-led foreign investment often caricatured as a rapacious new form of imperialism.

WILLIAM PENN IS, of course, best known for founding Pennsylvania as a safe haven for Quakers and for his commit-ment to religious tolerance in general. Unexplored in the vast amount of secondary literature on this iconic figure is his role in the origins of judicial tenure during good behavior, the institutional safeguard by which a judge can be removed for serious cause only that, together with adequate and secure judicial compensation, helped make the judiciary an independent and coordinate branch of government. In fact, two influen-tial articles on judicial tenure in New Jersey, Donald L. Kemmerer's "Judges' Good Behavior Tenure in Colonial New Jersey" and Jerome J. Nadelhaft's "Politics and the Judicial Tenure Fight in Colonial New Jersey," do not say a word about Penn, even though he was one of the early proprietors of that colony. J. Paul Selsam likewise overlooks Penn's con-tributions to judicial independence in his important article about the his-tory of judicial tenure in Pennsylvania, and Joseph H. Smith's oft-cited 1976 article "An Independent Judiciary: The Colonial Background" is similarly silent about Penn's role.

This article evaluates two theoretical perspectives on social organization within the Isthmo-Colombian Area using the comparison of homologous societies. It deals with the characteristics of domestic trash that is found in archaeological sites because it reflects aspects of social organization and activities in the past. This paper examines four political centers; Barriles (Panama), Bolas (Costa Rica), El Hatillo (Panama) and El Venado (Colombia). The data indicate important variations in social inequality, craft production and participation in the interregional exchange of goods. ; Este artículo evalúa dos perspectivas teóricas de organización social en el Área Istmo-Colombiana, a través de la comparación de sociedades homólogas. Se procede a partir de las características de la basura doméstica antigua que se encuentra en los sitios arqueológicos, ya que éstas reflejan aspectos de organización social y actividades humanas en el pasado. Se examinan cuatro centros políticos durante su apogeo: Barriles (Panamá), Bolas (Costa Rica), El Hatillo (Panamá) y El Venado (Colombia). Los datos indican variaciones importantes en desigualdad social, producción artesanal y participación en el intercambio de bienes.

AbstractThis article analyses the administrative structure and development of Chile's indigenous policies under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973–90), taking as its focus a pilot project for indigenous Mapuche integration known as Plan Perquenco. Officials formulated Plan Perquenco in accordance with the Chilean state's new administrative structure known as regionalisation. I focus on the unintended consequences of regionalisation that permitted the Mapuche youth group, Los Guitarreros Caminantes, to work through Plan Perquenco's music programmes to challenge the cultural politics of and justification for the pilot project.

AbstractThis paper examines how hockey is used to construct and demarcate the Canadian national community from external others, namely, the USA, Europe and Russia/USSR. The paper suggests popular nationalist narratives around the sport of hockey construct difference from external others in ways that place them in tension with state and corporate interests. Drawing on the concept of everyday nationalism, this article explores how the interplay between international competition, national identity and commercial sport has made hockey an ambiguous and contested national symbol in Canada.