The Guardian has a book review of Marcus Boon, "The Road of Excess. A History of Writers on Drugs", Harvard 2002. It is not devoted to anthropologists, it's rather about all kinds of writers on drugs, also from science. But as cultural anthropology is undoubtly still a science, where some fieldwork was done under the influence of drugs, (I remember Malinowski, and also Johannes Fabian proved it (Im Tropenfieber. Beck, 2001)), this book could give an interesting additional view on the history of writers on drugs. Yet more, as it seems to stay without opinion if this is a good or a bad thing.

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Raph Koster, an sf writer and game developer, wrote some thoughts about the question, if avatars (game characters in computer games played by a human), have civil rights. He raises some theoretical problems with that, for example: Does the right of property, which the owner of the server has, count higher than a supposed right of existance of an avatar? Or freedom of speech: What if a game is designed to not having this right? Weird, but interesting. Via Boingboing

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