Daedalus articles from September 2000

Daedalus archives from September 2000

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Assimilation But Were Afraid To Ask.
September 22, 2000... AS IF BY CENTENNIAL DESIGN the first and last decades of the twentieth century have been eras of large-scale immigration (see figures 1 and 2). During the first decade of the twentieth century, the United States saw the arrival of what was then...

Legislating Religious Freedom: Muslim Challenges to the Relationship between "Church" and "State" in Germany and France.
September 22, 2000... INTRODUCITON FOR MANY AMERICANS and other inhabitants of the modern world, the ideal of living under a democratic government includes the enjoyment of religious freedom. Americans tend to presume that religious freedom can only be ensured...

Citizenship on Trial: Nadia's Case.(Moroccan kidnapping by father)
September 22, 2000... ON OCTOBER 3, 1997, Norwegians awoke to the news that Nadia, a Norwegian citizen, eighteen years old, had been kidnapped by her parents and brought to Morocco, where she was being held captive. The purpose reportedly was to have her married by...

Does Feminism Have Universal Relevance? The Challenges Posed by Oriya Hindu Family Practices.
September 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION FEMINIST ACTIVISTS working in India today are both troubled and puzzled by their apparent inability to mobilize Hindu women. Why, they ask themselves, have they been relatively ineffective in energizing Hindu women both to...

Civilizing the Natives: Marriage in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
September 22, 2000... SOUTH AFRICA IS A LAND OF MANY CULTURES. For several hundred years, British and Afrikaaner whites controlled the country, systematically manipulating black people to the whites' advantage. For the most part, however, whites tolerated the...

About Women, About Culture: About Them, About Us.
September 22, 2000... WHY DO SO MANY public and scholarly discussions of cultural conflict and cultural defenses focus on women? Consider the intense debates over how much a particular industrialized society should accommodate minority members who participate in...

The Micropolitics of Identity/Difference: Recognition and Accommodation in Everyday Life.
September 22, 2000... [P]rovidence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very...

The Culture of Property.
September 22, 2000... IN THE LONG, STRAINED RELATIONSHIP between liberalism and community, property occupies a curious place. Many people have viewed private property as an agent of cultural disintegration and atomization, and for good reason. Private property seems...

The Free Exercise of Culture: Some Doubts and Distinctions.
September 22, 2000... THE EXPRESSION "free exercise of culture" follows on the free exercise of religion: in the hands of some of its most ardent advocates, the constitutional ideal of "free exercise" means that it is a matter of considerable regret whenever a...

What About "Female Genital Mutilation"? And Why Understanding Culture Matters in the First Place.
September 22, 2000... Female genital mutilation (FGM, also known as female circumcision) has been practiced traditionally for centuries in sub-Saharan Africa. Customs, rituals, myths, and taboos have perpetuated the practice even though it has maimed or killed...

Colorblindness as a Barrier to Inclusion: Assimilation and Nonimmigrant Minorities.
September 22, 2000... THE ASSIMILATION of millions of immigrants from strikingly different worlds into one society is a story that defines America. In the shadow of this American story is another: the struggle to include millions of nonimmigrant...