High bridewealth,migrant labour and the position of women in Lesotho

An attempt is made to explain the persistence of high bridewealth in Lesotho. It is argued that the structural conditions of its persistence have changed over time, and a macroeconomic perspective is developed in which to comprehend its contemporary significance. Bridewealth (Bohali) transfers in Lesotho at this time, at least in the Lowlands, are derived largely from the cash earnings of migrants and are no longer provided in livestock by a variety of agnatic and matrilateral kin on the side of the husband and distributed among a similar variety of kin on the wife's side. They are drawn from and contribute to a general subsistence fund concentrated largely within the household. To the extent that bohali transfers constitute items of expenditures for migrants and items of income for the heads of women's natal households, they effect a redistribution of income in favor of the senior generation, which thus has a clear interest incontinuing to demand high bohali. In addition migrants have an interest in substantially fulfilling their bohali obligations. Their own longterm security is best assured by establishing access to legitimate dependents within a rural household. Given a high rate of conjugal dissociation, a consequence of oscillating migration, the migrant must balance 2 considerations: the rationality of investment in the next generation, of the sort that bohali transfers represent, is qualified by an initially tenuous attachment to the rural household where his dependents reside; and so long as bohali remains the idiom in which interhousehold competition for the earning capacity of the next generation is rationalized and resolved, such investments continues to be the only way in which he can legitimately assert his own interests against those of his affines. The household viability in Lesotho depends on control over the earning capacity of migrants and over the productive and reproductive capacities of relict women. These are the structural conditions for the persistence of high bridewealth. Bohali is sustained by the realities of housekeeping, not merely by the ideology of keeping house. 3 detailed household profiles presented in an appendix give ethnographic sustenance to propositions concerning high bridewealth, migrant labor, and the position of women.     

期盼农民看病不再难——让新型农村合作医疗制度早日开花结果

农民的苦难历来就是党和政府工作的重点。2002年10月，党中央、国务院适时出台了《关于进一步加强农村卫生工作的决定》，明确提出，要逐步建立和完善农村合作医疗制度，建立新型农村合作医疗制度。2003年1月16日，国务院办公厅转发了卫生部、财政部和农业部三部门《关于建立新型农村合作医疗制度的意见》的通知。一项解决农民看病难的根本措施横空出世!这一举措是空前的，意义非同早常。但愿各级、各方面能够动真感情，下硬功夫，切实把这项关系亿万农民切身利益的大事办好。     

司法个案监督的意义、原则和方式

人大及其常委会对国家司法机关审理的个案进行监督,是当前我国法制建设中一个具有重要理论与实践意义的课题,需要认真研究,并在实践中不断总结和完善.本文仅就个案监督的意义、原则和方式,作一些探讨.     

“云南影响”走向世界——我省影视产业发展迅猛

不久前，“纪念中国电影百年·红河电影周”在蒙自举办，与会者无不为云南电影的新成果而振奋。电影《好大一对羊》与《石月亮》在电影周举行了首映，这都是取材于云南并由云南作家创作而搬上银幕的新作。     

《语言的力量》与勒塞克尔的语言哲学——当代马克思主义语言哲学走向现实关怀

勒塞克尔从批判当代结构主义语言学出发构建了马克思主义语言哲学体系。他指出,乔姆斯基的句法结构理论和标准语法无法涵盖恶语现象,只有研究恶语、询唤和风格这些真实的语言现实,才能揭示语言的本性,阐明语言与主体的相互构造关系。在《语言的力量》一书中,勒塞克尔借助阿尔都塞、德勒兹、莱利的思想,分析了语言的社会现实性和意识形态性,指出自然状态下的个体在语言的询唤中成为政治化、意识形态化的社会主体,而在独立意识觉醒的现代社会,主体又通过反询唤的风格塑造自身。语言的力量是实现人类解放的重要途径之一。     

“黄金之星”法务部价值几何?

企业法律顾问可以借助一些工具创建一个零成本法务部,把公司法务部从一个职能部门向一个战略价值驱动者转变,并向零成本模式迈进恰如《全球企业法律顾问协会价值挑战》(ACC Value Challenge)所恰到好处地例证的那样,我们的目标是法律服务收取的费用和法律服务的价值保持一致。与诸多类似举措形成对照的是,《全球企业法律顾问协会价值挑战》是一种双边方式。     

Managing Power Transitions: Towards a 21st Century Concert of Powers

Power shifts and especially power transitions in the international system are often associated with (military) confl ict. Power Transition Theory (PTT) does offer an analysis of this phenomenon but no remedy. We suggest easing the tensions related to ongoing worldwide power shifts by introducing a new informal multilateral security governance institution, based on the idea of a concert of powers. The historical European Concert of the 19th century prevented the outbreak of great power wars for more than a generation by providing a cooperation framework, based on shared norms and common procedures. In this article we explore the possibility of utilizing a modernized concert of powers as a framework for managing the coming power shifts. In order to do so, we introduce two new elements in Power Transition Theory: (1) the importance of the (dis) satisfaction of the declining hegemon with the anticipated future order, and (2) a broader multilateral framework of major powers that overcomes the Power Transition Theory’s traditional bilateral “duel” situation. On this basis, institutionalized power transition management becomes possible. We then work out the norms, strengths and weaknesses of the historical concert and update it with a few new features that would be necessary for it to be successful in the 21st century.     

加速发展残疾人文化事业正逢其时

没有文化的积极引领,没有人民精神世界的极大丰富,没有全民族精神力量的充分发挥,一个国家、一个民族不可能屹立于世界民族之林。党的十七届六中全会吹响了迈向社会主义文化强国伟大进军的号角,立刻在960万平方公里的中华大地上产生了强烈的反响。     

“八项规定”的风暴策略和效应

<正>党的十八大以来,全面从严治党是从贯彻执行中央"八项规定"精神起步的。十八大闭幕后不到一个月,中央政治局就制定了改进工作作风、密切联系群众的"八项规定",拿出一份改进作风立行立改的"问题清单"。习近平总书记率先垂范、以身作则,中央政治局同志身体力行、以上率下,迅速带动了各级各部门制定和严格执行符合"八项规定"精神的相关制度。经过不懈努力,公款浪费之风有效遏制,高档奢靡消费迅速收敛,践行群众路线上行下效,党风政风社风为之一新,赢得了全党全社会的高度赞誉。过去多少