http://hdl.handle.net/10453/320 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:32:16 GMT 2013-06-18T23:32:16Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19059 Ignoble but Lucrative" : Quacks, Ads, and Regulatio Crawford Robert Advertising¿s shady reputation can be traced back to the fantastic claims and impossible promises made by quack medicine proprietors in their advertising columns. While the quack¿s cures could be as medicinal as the ink in which their advertisements were printed, they nevertheless succeeded in forging a lucrative trade. In the process, they also exerted a significant impact on advertising and the advertising industry. This article traces the history of Australian quack advertisers in order to demonstrate the ways in which their appeals and strategies affected the practices and outputs of Australia¿s advertising professionals. It will also be demonstrated that the attempts to prevent the quack from advertising have not been completely successful. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19059 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19060 Montaillou: Cosmology And Social Structure Davidson Lola This is an interdisciplinary article which brings an anthropological perspective to the problem of the social basis of southern French Catharism. The exceptionally detailed inquistorial records concerning the Pyrennean village of Montaillou make it an id Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19060 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19057 History and its racial legacies: quotas in South African rugby and cricket Merrett Christopher; Tatz Colin; Adair Daryl South African identity has always been shaped by racial quotas; that is, divisions, assignments, allowances and allocations based on socially created ideas of race and difference. Both law and custom assigned a hierarchy which separated the rulers from the ruled, and allocated and rationed goods, services and enjoyments in all spheres of life, including sport. `Superior¿ whites were layered above the Cape coloured people, followed by the Indian community and, lastly, the Africans, the black majority. This article looks briefly at the historical context of racial divisions and, with the downfall of apartheid, the rhetoric of an avowedly de-racialized `new South Africa¿. Given the chronic history of negative discrimination, it is understandable that affirmative action has become a major policy framework in the building of a post-apartheid society. But sport is a sobering example of how a domain can be `re-racialized¿ in this quest. How does the African National Congress justify the (re)introduction into sport of a proportional or numerical quota system based on racial categories? Is there a need for demographic representativeness in white-dominated sports like cricket and rugby, but seemingly not in black-dominated soccer? Is an arithmetic quota system not merely a logical extension of the reviled racial genres and divides of previous centuries? Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19057 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19058 Under the Radar of Empire: Unregulated Travel in the Indian Ocean Ghosh Devleena This article explores unregulated circulation of people from South Asia to Australia and argues that these movements constitute both an integral and a destabilizing element in the conceptualization of the nation state and diasporic movements in the19th and 20th centuries. Differential mobility for populations, depending on race, class, and gender, meant that attempts by imperial and colonial governments to control the movements of their subjects met with indifferent success. Such unregulated journeys were hard to monitor, difficult to police and, ultimately, impossible to regulate within the expanded imperial networks of communication and transport, which opened up new ways for people, ideas, and technologies to circulate under the radar of Empire Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19058 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z