It looks like the University of Washington is some steps before other universities regarding research about and with the internet (see also prev. post). They also have an Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies: "The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture." In short you can find book reviews, courses, events and links on their page.

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The University of Washington has/had a course on Ethnography of On-Line Role-Playing Games. On their site I found a lot interesting 2000+ literature. Read this weblog post from a student of this university to get an overview. BTW, interesting to see, that this university is using weblog technology for their students.

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Our institute's Frank Heidemann and Ulrich Demmer have published their article "Visual Culture of the Jenu Kurumba" (in german) in the scientific Electronic Magazine "Schattenblick". It's in the pool 'Sozialwissenschaften\Fakten' as 'Forschung/035: Die Visuelle Kultur der Jenu Kurumba (Demmer/Heidemann)'. Now how to access it? You have to write an e-mail to Schattenblick and purchase their access software which comes with a handbook. After that you never have to pay anything again. The idea behind this is to reduce online-fees, as you can download everything and read offline. Since seven years Schattenblick offers an overview of current developments in a vast array of scientific disciplines.

[My two cents: "Schattenblick" means "look into the shadow" -- and IMHO this magazine really dwells in the shadow, as it isn't readily accessible online, their server says 'access forbidden', my search on the net and the e-mail they sent us (concerning the publication of Heidemann's and Demmer's article) didn't give more information than what I've written above. I'll write the guys an e-mail and try to get more info on access, costs and so on. To be continued ...] --zeph

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The king Okyenhene Amoatia Ofori Panin II surrounded by palace officials, receiving visitors and well-wishers during a ‘traditional’ festival (Kyebi/Ghana, 2002)

"Cherchez le Chercheur" No. VIII

Another shot from ‘the field’ inviting you to search for the researcher. He is attending this ceremonial and royal protocol in which the ‘traditionalists’ from the king’s palace and the visitors are bound. But is he really involved? Or just a spectator more or less admitted to the event? How much of what is going on does he actually grasp? At least, the photographic document – viewed back home – can serve the researcher as a source of multi-facetted information, as a mnemonic aid proper.

Click here for an enlarged view of the scene above.

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Web Assisted Learning and Teaching of Tamil. Via Tingtingfella

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Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection brings together 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books, plus an Encyclopedia, into a single cross-searchable web database for the first time. And the best of all: Students and staff of the university of munich have free access if logged in via a university network. Very useful is the fulltext search of ALL 60.000 pages. For special anthropological use may be of interest the various dictionaries on mythology, religions and world history.

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"The concluding line of Herman Melville’s classic American short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" reads: "Ah Bartleby, Ah Humanity!" And so, Bartleby.com—after the humble character of its namesake scrivener, or copyist—publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop of each and every Internet participant. Bartleby.com began as a personal research experiment in 1993 and within one year published the first classic book on the Web (Whitman’s Leaves of Grass). Since its incorporation in 1999 and the release of preeminent contemporary reference works, Bartleby.com becomes the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web, meeting the needs of students, educators, and the intellectually curious." And they really stand up to their self-description ... Items of special interest for the cultural anthropologist are for example a (shortened) 1922 edition of J. G. Frazer's The golden bough and Edward Sapir's An introduction to the study of speech. --zeph

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One of the most important encyclopaedias of germany is now online: Meyers Konversationslexikon in the edition from 1888. This is still useful as you can find here sometimes more information on historical topics than in newer editions. Via Netbib.

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CONFERENCE: The Department of Tourism Management at Shih Chien University, Taiwan, is pleased to announce Cultural Tourism, Tourist Culture: In-Depth Travel Conference to be held at Kaoshiung Campus, 23-25 May 2003. The conference seeks to cultivate an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholars, private/public sectors, and policy-makers interested in all facets of cultural tourism and tourist culture. With radical socio-economic changes in Taiwan, issues of culture and tourism have shifted from cultural diplomacy to cultural tourism - a rising field with the potential to rescue the current downswing of the national economy and the bleakness of cultural industry in this country. Although packaging and consuming cultural tourism have provoked controversies, statistics continue to inform authorities about a global market that appears to open up new opportunities for revitalizing economic growth and sharing the cultural heritage, in terms of jobs, income and self-pride. To advance sustainable tourism and in-depth travel, Shih Chien University recognizes an urgent need to facilitate and, if possible, to integrate cross-disciplinary exchanges among researchers, tourist sectors and community organizers, as well as administrators associated with a wide range of fields including museum exhibitions, performance and festivals, heritage conservation, folk fairs, tourist production, local historiography, hostel service, and theme-park management, etc.

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