Helsingin Sanomat has an article about a doctoral thesis by Minna Saarelma-Maunumaa. Many Namibians of the Ovambo tribe have Finnish names. That can be traced to missionaries who first arrived arrived in the region in 1870. "I wanted to study what happens when a traditional African name system and the European, Christian name culture are combined. The first thought was that the name practices will become more European, but it turned out that it was not so simple", Saarelma-Maunumaa explains.

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The colleagues from the University Trier put a link to the ethno::log from their site. Many thanks for that! Interesting: They filed us under the section "Polpularizing Anthropology". It make me think about this site, it's a totally new view. On one hand, this is really "popular" anthropology, as we collect information in a fairly high amount from popular sources. On the other hand, the intention was not to write for the popular masses. But if I look at our visitors, we have a lot non-scientists as readers. So, in fact, we maybe are popularizing anthropology, which isn't something bad. But mainly we don't carry information from the inside of anthropology to the masses. This is sad, but it's due to anthropology is not happening in the internet. So, aren't we popularizing anthropology? Anyway, main score of this page is to collect all interesting things from anthropology in the internet. Scientific or not, this doesn't care. It's always good to know what's going on, and the news sources of the internet can deliver a lot of actual information about the regions which are of high interest for anthropology.

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A paper in german, from the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fuer Sozialforschung: Internet im Auge der Ethnographin: "This paper presents a general survey of the different cultures of hackers, cyberpunks, unix freaks, real programmers and other proud, knowledgeable and daring users who inhabit this artificial landscape made up of cables, satellite connections, net adaptors, modems and programmes." Via Uni Trier

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Die Bonner Zeitschrift für Erwachsenenbildung has a Interview (in german) with Mike Sandbothe, a philosopher at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. They are talking about the apparent difference between "virtual" and "real. Very interesting. He says, that in our reality has always been the "virtual", it's nothing new, and connects this assertion to traditional aristotelic ideas. Via plastic thinking

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