Maps mirror the way of how we imagine a nation. Well lets have a look at the german weather forecast at www.wetter.de and you ll be surprised how the germans imagine their nation:

1. Click on Germany and - yeah you looked right -, the germans have a new island called "Mallorca". If you click on it you ll even get a map of the beautiful spanish island. Did I say spanish? Well try to enter it the spanish way: 2.Click on Spain, then you ll only get the forecast for Palma. First we imagine the world then we conquer it or was it the other way around ;-)) ?

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Tak Watanabe at Savage Minds some days ago posted an entry on using blogs in knowledge production inspired by Aaron A. Fox` website Real Country, which accompanies his recently published ethnographic study Real Country: Music And Language In Working-Class Culture and provides a selection of primary data as there are interview transcripts, audiofiles, pictures, stuff like that. Moreover, Fox installed a blog to get into dialog with his readers: " Welcome to my blog. I'm the author of Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture, just published by Duke University Press. This is a book about country music ( ... ) as the art of working-class Texans. I've created this blog as a place for readers (and prospective readers) of the book to discuss it, review it, and interact with me. In particular, I'm hoping that students who read this book in classes will feel free to use this blog as a resource." It can be used by other professionals working in similar fields too, despite of possible impact on especially academic knowledge production in general. See also entry at fieldnotes and entry at antropologi.info.

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