Isn't it paradox to have a cold in summer times? Guilty of spreading influenza epedemics are from my point of view maladapted immigrants, exilants and tourists from aequatorial parts of the earth. Descended from warmer parts of the world they constantly are becoming colds in our wet and low tempered summers. Looking for refreshment in our climate they still wear their caftans, harem pants and veils. Isn't this a little bit too aery? Furthermore it's a constant source for deseases within our society. Especially our (propper dressed) German children are targetted by viruses which originaly would not be there. But we please should not start a debate on authenticity now, as we usually do. I think we should think about consequences to protect our German society. Me with my cold I am one of the victims which is highly satisfied of the banning of the veil in Germany. It means a better adjustment to our german dresscode. But we should go some further steps for a better integration of foreigners in our country. Besides German courses every Goetheinstitute (and every other establishment caring about a better adaption of non-Germans) should have a broad palette of garment in store with the aim of demonstration. Well do you have further ideas to teach foreigners a better adaption to our country?

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"Browse the pantheons of the world, explore ancient myths, and discover Gods of everything from Fertility to Fluff with the fully searchable Holy Database Of All Known Gods."

You can Check the Gods on this funny page.

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"Editors Sidney I. Dobrin, Cathlena Martin, and Laurie Taylor seek proposals for a new collection of original articles that address the use and place of space and ecology in video games. This collection will examine video games in terms of the spaces they create and use, the metaphors of space on which they rely, and the ecologies that they create within those spaces. This collection will address the significant intersections in terms of how and why video games construct space and ecology as they do, and in terms of how those constructions shape conceptions of both space and ecology." via TerraNova

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"The Master's Course in Digital Games Research and Design is a course module series that uses the resources of several disciplines to address the digital game as a medium of high cultural importance. It aims to educate participants in academic game studies and in conceptual game design fundamentals, by exploiting their practical and theoretical connections." via TerraNova

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If you're looking for witty putdowns, comebacks, off-color jokes, slang expressions or multilingual swearing in 156 languages, have a look at insultmonger.com. But beware, nobody minces matters over there!

thanx to Vicki and Mark!

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is a long-term ethnographic study of the cultures living and working in the hi-tech communities of Silicon Valley, now entering its fourteenth year. Beginning in 1991, Drs. Charles Darrah and J. A. English-Lueck, professors at San José State University, California, developed a collaborative research project that is investigating the Silicon Valley culture area. This region is a laboratory for research into high technology communities due to its robust and varied industrial base, the use of information technologies, organizational innovations, and its broad cultural diversity.

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The Social Computing Group, one of Microsoft's research projects does research and developes "software that contributes to compelling and effective social interactions, with a focus on user-centered design processes and rapid prototyping".

worth a look are the listed papers and publications on the scg wep-presence.

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The Institute for East European Studies and the Institute for Ethnology and Social Anthropology at the Freie Universitaet Berlin are offering one research position in the project “Accounting for State-building, Stability & Violent Conflict: the Institutional Framework of Caucasian and Central Asian Transitional Societies” (CSCCA). The researcher will conduct extensive fieldwork in Afghan Badakhshan and will integrate his/her findings into the research framework of the CSCCA project. PhD students and senior researches are entitled to apply. Further information

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A lot of people travel these days and take photos. One of them, Mr. Frysinger, put them all (literally thousands!) together and made a homepage out of them. He also took pictures from people from around the world (he calls them ethnographic..). Worth a look i think.

Another page with quite a few pictures of indigenous people is tribalphoto.com.

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"For the first time in history, the Digital Library of India is digitizing all the significant literary, artistic, and scientific works of mankind and making them freely available, in every corner of the world, for our education, study and appreciation and for all our future generations." Full text search! Lots of technical books, but still buggy. I was not able to display books. Strange order. Via Netbib

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Anthropological Theories: a guide prepared by students for students. by Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Alabama

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On 2nd and 3d July 2004 the public symposion ILUSIONES on sociocultural anthropological Latin America studies in Munich will be held at our institute and the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, München. Have a look at the program or directly download the information brochure (.pdf, 200KB).

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