I scanned a english translation from the two voyages of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, done by Clements Markham in 1895 for the Hakluyt Society for my own use. Maybe someone will find it useful too, thats why I publish it here. Clements Markham died in 1916, thats why its public domain now. Sarmiento de Gamboa was a famous spanish navigator who tried to build a settlement in the straits of magellan in the years 1581-1590 (which ended in a dramatic loss of ships and lifes). [show bibliographic information] Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa: Narratives of the voyages of Pedro Sarmiento de Gambóa to the Straits of Magellan. (Reprint of Hakluyt Society First Series 91, New York : Burt Franklin, 1895). New York : Lenox Hill, 1970. - Edition of 1895 edited, translated and provided with an introduction by Markham, Clements R. Update: Not online anymore. Try the scan at Google Books instead.

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It may well be that right now I am planting some strange thoughts in the minds of certain people. So have a healthy look at ethical decision-making and internet research first. When I reported about the map of the internet I mentioned the IP Adress Locator, which correlates IP-numbers with geographical space. Today I discovered the ACME Mapper. Type the IP of an online-friend into the IP Locator, copy the locator's latitude- and longitude-output, paste it into the ACME Mapper, and presto you've got a satellite picture of your friend's neighbourhood (as long as the friend lives in the US, as only the US is included so far). To push it a li'l further, use an e-mail forging tool (no, I won't supply a link), pose as your favourite US-executive authority, and send your dear friend a mail which reads "Gotcha!" and has the satellite-pic attached. Then run.

Of course you also could use the ACME Mapper to get some decent from-above-pictures of the Amerindian tribe's habitat you're giving an anthropological lecture on -- but who on earth would want to do that?

Btw, guess what is shown on the pic above. No clue? It is ... the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The dark square at the left is the black-glass pyramid of the hotel-building itself. The white patch in the center is the life-size Sphinx-replica, and the little white patch (near the street on the right) is the obelisk-replica, which casts its shadow to the left.

via Searching for the Moon

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The Bayrische Staatsbibliothek in Munich recently opened the so called "Quartkatalog", containing all books and their call numbers from 1841 to 1952, for access via internet. The time before books between this range were only researchable by library staff.

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The Centre de Coopération Universitaire Franco-Bavarois (see CCUFB [french website] or BFHZ [german website]) offers quite a list of opportunities for bavarian students and post-graduates who want to study in France or do research there.

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Some german articles on the federal government's plans to create elite-universities in Germany: From Yahoo-News: Regierung ruft Wettbewerb für Elite-Unis aus, from Spiegel: Castingshow mit Edelgard, and from SZ: 250 Millionen Euro jährlich für Spitzen-Universitäten.

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The new edition of Ethnologik - the magazine by students of the Institute for Ethnology in Munich - is out. It is available from now on in all the seminars and lectures or can withdrawn from the Fachschaft or via the official website.

Have fun reading!

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Interesting book found by accident: "Mobile Cultures provides empirically grounded studies of the connections between new media technologies, the globalization of sexual cultures, and the rise of queer Asia." [show full title] Mobile Cultures. New Media in Queer Asia. Edited by Chris Berry, Fran Martin and Audrey Yue. Duke University Press. Published April 2003, 296 pages, paper ISBN 0822330873

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The 8th Summer Institute will take place from June 27- July 22, 2004.
We hereby present the 2004 programme of the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society organised by the Universiteit of Amsterdam. Participate in courses, seminars and dialogues in Amsterdam on the cultural and social dimensions of human sexuality. Scientific directors are: Carole Vance and Han ten Brummelhuis. This years faculty: Alice Miller, Stefan Dudink, Radhika Chandiramani, Oliver Phillips, Geetanjali Misra, Sea Ling Cheng, Marieke van Doorninck and Mirjam Schieveld. The Summer Institute is an intensive four-week summer program which focuses on the study of sexuality across cultures and is taught by an international faculty team. This highly specialised programme is for advanced students, primarily Ph.D. and MA students in the socio-cultural sciences and professionals working for NGO's. The institute was founded in 1995 since then students from more than thirty countries have participated in our courses. Nearly a quarter of the participants have been professionals working for NGO's. The other participants came from such diverse educational backgrounds as the social sciences (anthropology, sociology), psychology, women's studies, history, public health and human sexuality studies. Statements of former students can be found on the website. We expect a 2004 class of approximately 30 students. The Institute's classes are intensive small group seminars, with discussions, lectures and guest lectures by prominent people in the field. Applications must be addressed to the Universiteit van Amsterdam at the below address. You can visit our web-site for an application form. Please feel free to share this information.

Sincerely yours,
Mirjam Schieveld
Programme manager
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International School for the Humanities and Social Sciences

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I stumbled over a very interesting series about long forgotten film documents made by missionaries in Asia, America and Africa. Broadcasted on BR (click and scroll down a bit for informations). I couldn't record it, though. Unfortunatelly I noticed it just today, so my post comes late for you readers missed the part about Asia already =) sorry. Hopefully they will run it again . . .

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I stumbled over a very interesting series about long forgotten film documents made by missionaries in Asia, America and Africa. Broadcasted on BR. Unfortunatelly I noticed it just today, so you missed the part about Asia already, I saw but couldn't record it, though. Hopefully they will run it again.

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