Can Developing Women Create Primitive Art? and Other Questions of Value, Meaning and Identity in the Circulation of Janakpur Art

In this article, I examine the values and meanings that adhere to objects made by Maithil women at a development project in Janakpur, Nepal ��� objects collectors have called ���Janakpur Art���. I seek to explain how and why changes in pictorial content in Janakpur Art ��� shifts that took place over a period of five or six years in the 1990s ��� occurred, and what such a change might indicate about the link between Maithil women���s lives, development, and tourism. As I will demonstrate, part of the appeal for consumers of Janakpur Art has been that it is produced at a ���women���s development project��� seeking to empower its participants. And yet, the project���s very successes threaten to displace the producers (and what they produce) from their perceived qualities/identities as ���traditional��� and ���primitive,��� thereby bringing into question the authenticity of the ���art��� they produce. The conundrum begs this question: can developing women produce primitive art?

Studying the Roles of Nonprofits, Government, and Business in Providing Activities and Services to Youth in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area

The article addresses the questions, What do children in urban areas do on Saturdays? What types of organizational resources do they have access to? Does this vary by social class? Using diary data on children's activities on Saturdays in the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale metropolitan area, the authors describe the different types of venues (households, businesses, public space, associations, charities, congregations, and government/tribal agencies) that served different types of children. They find that the likelihood of using a charity or business rather than a government or tribal provider increased with family income. Also, the likelihood of using a congregation or a government facility rather than a business, charity, or household increased with being Hispanic. The authors discuss the implications for the urban division of labor on Saturdays and offer research questions that need further investigation.