My colleague Hilde Link is desperately looking for people who are in possession of photographies or video-footage of the interior of the so called Library of the Banteay Srei temple in Angkor, Cambodia. As I understand the matter, something has been removed (that means stolen?) from the interior which is of quite some scientific interest, and of which no available records exist. My colleague's hope now rests on pictures of the said interior taken by visitors of the site. If you think you can help, please contact Mrs. Hilde Link. Please forward this question to people of whom you know that they have visited Angkor.

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This year's first issue of Journal Ethnologie (in german) has been published. This issue of the fine ethnological online-journal has its main focus on traditional medecine and carries articles on traditional healing among the Yupno of Papua-New Guinea, a medical-anthropological study on organ-transplantation, an article on Aids and migration in Tanzania, a piece on Vastuveda by our institute's Hilde Link and much more ... like an agenda of current ethnological exhibitions, books, interviews ... If you are interested in social/cultural anthropology (and if you can read german) make sure to regularly stop by at Journal Ethnologie. The staff over there copes with a tremenous task and makes sure that people outside of the academic community of social/cultural anthropology are able to understand the contents, too. (german footnote) Im Journal Ethnologie schreiben EthnologInnen und KulturwissenschaftlerInnen an deutschsprachigen Museen und Universitäten für eine an ethnologischen Themen interessierte Öffentlichkeit. Es bietet unter anderem eine Übersicht über aktuelle Ausstellungen ethnologischer Museen. Herausgegeben wird das Journal-Ethnologie vom Museum der Weltkulturen in Frankfurt am Main. So, students, tell your friends about Journal Ethnologie and you won't need to try to explain to them again and again what that is ... "Ethnologie". see our older story, too.

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Bryan Alexander writes at infocult: "The Economist has an article on corporations hiring anthropologists to study their digital information ecologies. NO ONE asks to see Steve Barnett's pith helmet anymore, which he views as a sign that the natives are now comfortable with his presence. Indeed, they appear to accept Dr Barnett, a pioneering business anthropologist, as one of their own?something that now holds true for corporate anthropologists in general. It was certainly not the case in 1979, the year Dr Barnett left academia to set up as an anthropological marketing-consultant. It was still not true in the late 1980s, when Xerox asked one of its resident anthropologists, Jeanette Blomberg, to don a pith helmet for a corporate photo. A neat put-down: when he was informed that IBM Research had hired Ms Blomberg as its first anthropologist in December 2002, Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future exclaimed, ?Just now? How embarrassing." See also this article and our older story Intel and the Anthropologists. via infocult

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Some students seem to have made positive experiences with the International Youth Link Foundation. Especially with an exchange program concerning Ghana.

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