Pasts and presents: History, politics, and the representation of self and other in pacific ethnography
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Law and order in the New Guinea highlands
are there. He rejects the amending process as a workable check; impeachment, appointment, consent strategies. He rejects Congressional control over the Court's appellate jurisdiction as an effective limitation. He wants all three branches to begin acting as if they were coordinating with one another. This would temper the unacceptable finality of judicial policy making. But one suspects that under all of these fulminations, what Agresto really is upset by is not the Court's excessive activism, which does not really differ so greatly from the activism of the late 19th and early 20th century, but the fact that that activism and the doctrines which have been evolved through it has supported the wrong people in American society—blacks and other ethnic minorities, religious minorities, women, labor unionists, agitators, criminals, juveniles, aliens, and pro-choice advocates— people whom he generally sees as unworthy of constitutional largesse. He argues that the Court has never been a defender of such minorities and their fundamental liberties except in very limited ways, and goes on to suggest that when it assumes the role of their champion the historic pattern of its past behavior is being violated. Thus, because Blacks have always been second-class citizens, the Court should not do much for them other than to correct its own past decisions which unduly denied them abstract constitutional rights. Generally, however, if that is to be done, it is the role of the legislative branch, which will ultimately take care of such minorities. To this extent it is interesting to see him rejecting Jesse Chopper's recent book Judicial Review and the National Political Process partly on the ground that history has shown the majority will never deny the rights of the minority.
Negotiating the cultural and economic outcomes of sport heritage attractions: the case of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
ABSTRACT Contemporary museums must balance their roles as commercial entities and repositories of various, and often dissonant, heritages and histories. Sports museums in particular often have clear commercial and nostalgic aims, particularly through tourist visitation, though the extent to which they represent more challenging narratives remains unclear. This paper examines how one of the most famous sports museums in the world, the National Baseball Hall of Fame (NBHF) in Cooperstown, New York, balances its dual role as tourist attraction and repository of baseball's sometimes checkered past. It was found that different sections of the museum provide greater or lesser degrees of engagement with more controversial issues, although the commercial outputs and appeal of the museum remains clear throughout. Utlimately, the NBHF demonstrates that balancing veneration and critique in collections can be commercially prosperous, and can provide a template for other sport and popular culture museums who may be wary of incorporating more challenging narratives in their exhibits. Furthermore, the symbiotic relationship between the Hall of Fame and the village of Cooperstown, particularly in creating and maintaining cultural and economic outputs, requires further exploration.