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New Evidence of Early Form of Writing in Mexico Centuries before the famously literate Maya, even before the Zapotecs, the Olmecs of ancient Mexico were carving symbols on stone and ceramics 2,600 years ago in what a team of archaeologists thinks is the earliest form of writing ever found in the New World, writes the NYTimes. Read more .... If you don't have an free account at NYTimes, you can use mine: user:ethno password:log123 ... Link (0 comments) ... Comment Dept. of cyberethnologica, kerlone, December 6, 2002 at 6:07:58 PM CET The World's Sensitive Cultural Seismic Meter The NYTimes writes about the logs of Google and how they are representing a huge part of the actual thoughts of the world. "But the data could only reflect patterns, not explain them. That is a paradox of a Google log: it does not capture social phenomena per se, but merely the shadows they cast across the Internet. Very interesting! If you don't have an free account at NYTimes, you can use mine: user:ethno password:log123 ... Link (0 comments) ... Comment Dept. of ethnologica, kerlone, December 6, 2002 at 8:17:45 AM CET How the Ashaninka from Peru created a Website 
How the Ashaninka build their own Internet server and website (nice long hut, by the way!), with help and sponsoring of western organications.
This is an older story, but was requested by a student of our institute who is doing research on the adoption of technology. Further examples are appreciated.
Via Mosaikum
... Link (0 comments) ... Comment Dept. of ethnologica, kerlone, December 6, 2002 at 8:08:12 AM CET Africa's new tech warriors As part of a weekly series on women in business, BBC News Online talks to women in Africa who have taken up a career in technology, a field normally dominated by men. Via Wired News ... Link (0 comments) ... Comment Dept. of cyberethnologica, kerlone, December 6, 2002 at 8:06:05 AM CET Worshipping at the Altar of Mac? The Mac computer community is like a new-age religion, one expert argues, but is it truly a cult? Read more at Wired ... Link (0 comments) ... Comment Dept. of fieldwork, kerlone, December 6, 2002 at 7:52:20 AM CET Friday's Fascinating Photograph from Fieldwork 
A Missionary with an infant
From the cover of the magazine "Portugal em Africa", 1953, Nr. 55.
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