Cabinet members walk a tightrope between controversial economic policies and grassroots support. An article from LatinAmerican Press.

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Take a look at the actual First Monday Issue. For example, they have two interesting articles about Internet in Africa and one about cybermethods. If someone reads an article it would be more than welcome to write a short comment about it.

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It has been often discussed in cultural anthropology, whether cannibalism is a myth or not, and one argument, that it is, was, that cannibalism has been always reported from the enemies. Latest example comes from the congo: The Pygmies are claiming that the congo rebels eat their enemies, at least is CNN reporting this. If you are interested in the Phygmies you may also read this news about them and their logging dilemma: "Renewed Logging Brings Jobs to Africa's Pygmies, but Also Threatens a Way of Life"

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The Guardian has a review of an interesting book about the spanish conquest and colonisation from Henry Kamen, called "Spain's Road to Empire": "The conquistadores were wrongly named. Those brave men who crossed the Atlantic to "discover" the New World were neither all-conquering, nor all Spanish. Perhaps they should have been called adventurers, collaborators or opportunists, though if you ask a Latin American, you'll hear some choicer suggestions. The point, as made by Henry Kamen in this impressive study, is that Spain alone neither created nor maintained the Spanish empire, which at its peak covered a third of the world, from the Netherlands to New Mexico. Spain did not even exist as a political entity until the 18th century. It was merely an association of states, of which the most powerful was Castile."

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Sorry for the outtime in the last days, the server of antville has been changed. But as you may notice, the new server is really fast, and it looks like all the trouble and the server downtimes in the last months will have an end! Thanks to dijon, zephyrin and marc who did spend money for the new server! It was worth the money, I think!

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