Well, it already was way overdue, to tell you about this: "Anthro-L is a "list", an electronic bulletin board dedicated to friendly and scholarly discussion of anything pertaining to anthropology and its study. (Please note that the list's name ends in "L", not "one".) The list is run on Listserv software from the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, New York, USA. Since its inception in 1985, Anthro-L has grown rapidly. Messages from the list currently reach several thousand subscribers of all ages and backgrounds and from over 46 countries. Subscription is open to all. While only subscribers may post, non-subscribers are encouraged to send relevant messages to the List Manager (see address at end of file). Anthro-L is a forum for the announcement and discussion of anthropological news, research, theories, publications, meetings, exhibits, and events, and for dialogue on matters relating to the discipline itself. We welcome contributions from anthropologists, professional or avocational, and from our colleagues in other fields. The day to day operations of the list are carried out by the List Manager. Matters of policy and conduct are overseen by a Board of Governors. The Board is composed of present/past managers and owners of the list." Please have a look at Danny Yee's Anthro-L Homepage (from which the above statement was taken), and the fully searchable Anthro-L archives. You'll find information on how-to-subscribe here and here.

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We are soliciting submissions for a collection of essays examining and implementing possible ways to present, represent, or perform the postfoundational (postmodern and/or poststructural) body/subject in autoethnography. Autoethnography, a qualitative research methodology which falls in the intersection of poststructural ethnography and autobiography, has predominately examined the body/subject of its focus as a modern self. Although much theoretical discussion has taken place around the intersection of postfoundational theories and qualitative research, few, if any, autoethnographies have been published which attempt to deal with the body/subject as a postfoundational phenomena. Thus, the question continues to arise, how would one write a postfoundational body/subject? What would a postfoundational body/subject "look" like? What are some possible modes of textualizing a postfoundational body/subject? We are interested in pieces that go beyond a theoretical discussion and embrace a wide variety of possible methods, including work that is poetic, fictional, performative, etc.

Submission should be made to the following: Jodi Kaufmann Department of Educational Psychology 325 Aderhold Hall University of Georgia Athens, GA

Works must be submitted on diskette, floppy or zip. Deadline for completed manuscripts is May 30, 2003. All inquires may be addressed to Jodi Kaufmann or Nathaniel Kohn. via Anthro-L

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The romanic seminar and the "Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien" of the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany stages a presentation series on "Literature and oral literature in Africa". Most of the presentations are in german, but there are some in English and French, too. Read the program here.

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The regional group "Africa" of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (which equals to: "German Society for Social/Cultural Anthropology") has sent a CALL FOR PAPERS for their next conference, which will be held from 2. through 4. October 2003 in Hamburg, Germany. The topic of the call is: "Mobilität und kulturelle Identität. Methoden der Erforschung interethnischer Beziehungen in Afrika" ("Mobility and cultural identity: Methods for research on interethnical relationships in Africa"). Read the call (in german) here.

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Maybe someone from our workgroup tourism would like to comment on that project?

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Society for Economic Anthropology, Atlanta, GA -- 2004 Annual Meeting, April 22-24, 2004. CALL FOR PAPERS: Fast Food -- Slow food: Social and Economic Contexts of Food and Food Systems. The Society for Economic Anthropology seeks proposals for papers and poster presentations for our 2004 annual meetings, which will be held in Atlanta. The topic of the meeting will be food and food systems, at scales ranging from the personal to the global, and over time from hominid origins to the future globalization of food systems. The SEA meetings provide a rare opportunity for a focused and coherent program of presentation, with time for critical discussion in a convivial intellectual setting. About 15 papers are selected from abstracts for a program that allows 20 minutes for presentation and 20 minutes for discussion in a single plenary session over two days. 20-30 additional abstracts will be selected for an afternoon poster session. The conference organizer then edits a conference volume which appears in the SEA book series, published by Altamira Press. We will have a food-oriented tour in Atlanta, an informal workshop on teaching and curriculum innovations, and of course, opportunities for fine dining. Fast food and slow food represent two visions of the future of food, two modes of analysis, two ways to connect food to other social and economic phenomena. Fast food is efficient, technological, homogenized; the product of an aggressively expanding global political economy. The slow food movement, on the contrary, is about aesthetics, conviviality, domesticity and local cultural knowledge. Both are equally modern. We seek papers that go beyond the traditional anthropologies of food that focus on the role of food in group identity and social integration, emphasizing the division between traditional and modern foodways. We encourage approaches that cross disciplinary boundaries, use innovative methods, and explore connections between food and the cultural economy. Possible topics for papers include (but are by no means limited to): " Food systems and the global division of labor " Food circulation and exchange as gifts and commodities " Food, domesticity, gender & household " The origins of complex food systems " Food market systems, localization & sustainability Send an abstract for paper or poster of 400-600 words to Richard Wilk, Anthropology Dept., Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405, or by e-mail. Deadline for Abstracts is October 1, 2003. via Anthro-L

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The complete edition from 1911 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is online -- because of copyright-law it isn't anymore mentioned on the site, that it actually is the Britannica. The site-maintainers are allowed to put the contents online, but not to use the label "Encyclopaedia Britannica"! I guess the freedom of science allows me to put this information here. (?) Anyway: "The best encyclopedia ever written was published over 90 years ago! And now you can find right here on the web! This 1911 encyclopedia is filled with historical information that is still relevant today. It fills 29 volumes and contains over 44 million words. The articles are written by more than 1500 authors within their various fields of expertise. As a research tool, this 1911 encyclopedia edition is unparalleled -- even today." Read more about this edition at Wikipedia.

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In Cultural Anthropology you sometimes have to look at the historic descriptions of a ethnic group. For this, searches for antiquarian books may be helpful (you can order the books still a your local library, if available). The german Zentrales Verzeichnis antiquarischer Bücher as well as the American Antiquarian Society have excellent online search forms. I just found a lot interesting book using "travel patagonia" as keyword.

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"We at Rhizomes oppose the idea that knowledge must grow in a tree structure from previously accepted ideas. New thinking need not follow established patterns. Rhizomes promotes experimental work located outside current disciplines, work that has no proper location. As our name suggests, works written in the spirit of Deleuzian approaches are welcomed but not required. We are not interested in publishing texts that establish their authority merely by affirming what is already believed. Instead, we encourage migrations into new conceptual territories resulting from unpredictable juxtapositions."

A special-issue of Rhizomes, "Cultural Studies in emerging knowledge" is forthcoming, papers are still accepted: "RETRO-FUTURES" (Spring 2004) A special issue on historic utopias, nostalgic speculations, neo-traditions, modern primitives, archaic science fictions, being/becoming, new urbanism, invented traditions, primitivism, futurism, retro fashion, futurology, back to basics, neo-paganism, origin/destiny, simplicity, the classics, the space age, and any other combination of the old and the new is under construction at <a href="http://"www.rhizomes.net">Rhizomes. Testing the boundaries of cutting-edge and the timeless, the newfangled and the obsolete, “Retro-Futures” will peer into the culture and politics of temporality and everyday life." Abstracts by November 15th, 2003. Papers by January 15th, 2004. Send email attachment and/or html/web pages to davinheckman@hotmail.com or to dheckman@reconstruction.ws or see the contact page. via Anthro-L

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"During the past 20 months, more than 10,000 Persian weblogs have been emerged. Their authors mostly live in Iran, where the number of Internet users hardly exceeds a half million. This means that blogging is extremely popular ... (read more".

It's a paper from Hossein Derakhshan, who will be talking at the weblog conference BlogTalk in Vienna, Austria. Via Mediatic

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