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Making otherness the norm / Judit Brody -- The family background and achievements of Walter Edmund Roth / Barrie Reynolds -- Henry Ling Roth : the natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo / Robert Hampson -- The making of Great Benin : Felix Norman Roth and Henry Ling Roth / Russell McDougall -- The primitive body and colonial administration : Henry Ling Roth's approach to body modification / Alice Gorman -- From Oxford to the bush : W.E. Roth, W.B. Spencer and Australian anthropology / John Mulvaney -- Ethnological studies and archaeology of north west central Queensland / Iain Davidson -- W.E. Roth and the study of Aboriginal languages in Queensland / Gavan Breen -- W.E. Roth on Asians in Sustralia / Regina Ganter -- The legacy of a 'lazy character' : Walter Roth's contribution to the ethnography collections of the Queensland Museum / Richard Robins -- The life and times of Walter Edmund Roth in north Queensland : the first protector, the Australian museum and scandal / Kate Khan -- Naked shame : nation, science and indigenous knowledge in Walter Roth's interventions into frontier sexualities / Ann McGrath -- Walter Edmund Roth : Royal commissioner of Western Australia, 1904 / Geoffrey Gray -- Walter Roth and ethno-pornography / Helen Pringle -- An indigenous compendium : Walter E. Roth and the ethnology of British Guiana / Neil L. Whitehead -- 'Protector of Indians' : assessing Walter Roth's legacy in policy towards Amerindians in Guyana / Janette Bulkan and Arif Bulkan -- Vincent Roth : the man, his life and his work / Michael Bennett -- George Kingsley Roth and the Fijian way of life / Julian Croft

PurposeThis article shows that business family and family business research is dominated by reductionist and biased concepts of culture that are in sharp contrast with recent advances in anthropology and the broader social sciences that would allow for more fine-grained analyses.Design/methodology/approachThrough an inbound theorizing approach, state-of-the-art anthropological and sociological concepts of culture are introduced to family business research.FindingsThe resulting interdisciplinary update unveils that prevailing concepts of culture in family business research confuse cultures with countries or nations and neglect the processual constitution of culture.Originality/valueThe article advocates a research agenda emphasizing the social construction and reproduction of culture as well as the need to systematically draw on findings from anthropology and sociology so as to allow for better cross-cultural comparisons in the field of family business research.

This article suggests that Weber's cosmopolitan dimension has much to do with his extended family history, which has been relatively neglected even though it influenced his world view and oeuvre in significant respects. It first sketches the cosmopolitan family context and then turns to Weber's political and scholarly agenda, especially the little-known story of his strong political and professional engagement in the battle over exchange reform in the eighteen-nineties.

Max Weber descended from Anglo-German merchant families with worldwide connections. This helped make him a "cosmopolitan nationalist." Fittingly, Weber at first tried to pursue a career in international commercial law. Family connections informed his understanding of South US wheat exports & North US railroad capitalism & of the tariff issues resulting therefrom. This, in turn, influenced his critique of the Prussian agrarian capitalists, especially of their opposition to trading in grain futures. Weber championed a strong capital market & efficient exchanges. His economic policies remain of exemplary interest insofar as they link the presumptive, if contested, national interest with an unsentimental acceptance of the world economy.

401(k) and 403(b) plans can be amended in 2006 to add a Roth feature giving plan participants the advantage of paying no income tax on the earnings in their Roth account established within the plan. Successfully adding the Roth feature is a joint effort of the plan sponsor and the plan recordkeeper. The plan sponsor and the plan recordkeeper must work together to effectively communicate the complex tax choices to the plan participants. The employer payroll system must accommodate the required separation of this post tax Roth option from the pre-tax salary deferral, and the plan recordkeeping system must provide the appropriate account separation and reporting required under the income tax rules. Even though these tasks will require significant effort, the rewards for plan participants who are shut out of the Roth IRA option because of their family income level or who believe that they will be in a higher tax bracket when they receive payment from their account than when the contributions are made, will appreciate the effort.