"Evangelical Christians are using the new media environment to promote their own worldview and protect their traditions from what they see as a secular onslaught." A report from MIT Technology Review.

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Now there is an events-section at the website of the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde at Munich. The range of events taking place at the museum covers lectures, movies, scenical readings and more ... everything having to do with social/cultural anthropology, of course. The museum staff does a magnificent job and organizes very interesting events frequently. The events are worthwhile to visit not only for the general public, but for students of anthropology as well. Additionally you can download the current schedule of lectures organized by the Circle of Friends of the Museum at their sub-page. Don't miss this, as high-calibre anthropologists from the whole german-speaking domaine are speaking there. If you do not want to regularly check the museum's website -- or are prone to forgetting about that, as I am -- you can subscribe to an e-mail newsletter at the events-section, too.

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In examining how Accra adapts to technological change, we gain a better understanding of how people in poor African cities use technology and what they want from it. Debates over the so?called "digital divide" can be enriched by close studies of lived experience in parts of the world where the revolution in information technology remains more prospect than reality. A Article from FirstMonday: Black star: Ghana, information technology and development in Africa by G. Pascal Zachary

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Wireless technology is helping native Americans in California go online and learn computing skills, reports BBC. Via BoingBoing

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The government of the US prohibits the editing of scientific articles from Libya, Sudan, Iran, and Kuba because they are under trade embargo. While publishing of a manuscript, which is completly ready for print, is allowed, not even a comma may be changed, and no images may added. This makes it more or less impossible for a journal like Current Anthropology to publish scientific articles of authors from those countries, as translation will be also prohibited. Read more at NYTimes (User:ethno Password:log123) or Telepolis (german).

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Today the Süddeutsche Zeitung published a very interesting article on a renewed debate on evolution theory in the public opinion. Apperently thoughts contra the academic investigationary theories of evolution in geology, biology, history and human studies are increasing as far as that science already has problems sometimes to rectify its work. Additional, this to the actual debate, some US-states are planning to equal education about 'Intelligent Design' in public schools... In other words, that opposing theories on evolution, such as ID and religious creation, should have the same value in education.

Interesting as well because the topic might be of interest in the upcoming presidential campaign in the USA.

I also add the link to Intelligent Design network, inc. - Seeking Objectivity in Origins Science - for further information!

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The New York Times: Say No More. A long article reflecting the "Death of Languages". And a very good one, as the author is also thinking about the linguistic myth of the "last one speaking something". And by the way, he visited some of the last descendants of Yaghan and Kawesqar Culture, also known as Yamana and Alacaluf/Halakwulup of tierra del fuego. Via Sofa

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leo.org, a university service in munich, which was already very famous for its english-german dictionary, now launched a german-french dictionary. Très formidable!

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On 29 March 2004 Setha M. Low, City University of New York, speaks on "The Politics of Fear: The Ethnography of Gated Communities" at the New York Academy of Sciences:
"Across America, lower-middle-, middle- and upper-middle-class gated communities are creating new forms of exclusion and residential segregation, exacerbating social cleavages that already exist. While historically secured and gated communities were built in the United States to protect family estates and to contain the leisure world of retirees, these urban and suburban developments now target a much broader market, including families with children." Read more ...

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The two german Anthroplogists Ina Zukrigl and Joana Breidenbach show in their article about identity in "virtual worlds" six thoughts about the differences between online and offline: Vernetzte Welten - Identitäten im Internet Via Ethno Info

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Article at CNet about Open Office, Microsoft and localization in those small markets.

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