In October 2002 an initiative of migrants and academics was founded to build up a museum on migration in Germany. Now "Germany needs a Migrationsmuseum" is online.

... Link (0 comments) ... Comment

From 14th to 29th march there is an exhibition about advertisment in africa in the "Münchner Stadtmuseum". Sounds quite interesting.

... Link (0 comments) ... Comment

In the center of digitalization of the national library of bavaria you can search online all entries of the german Zeldler encyclopedia from the 18th century, called "Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste". It's a useful tool, because I already found entries there especially from persons of this time, which you can't find in actual encyclopedias.

... Link (0 comments) ... Comment

Afghanistan has launched its own national internet domain, .af, for websites and e-mail addresses, reports BBC.

... Link (0 comments) ... Comment

I just discovered a recent study from the swiss anthropologist Sonja Bischoff. She researched with polls the use of the Internet in german speaking Institutes of Anthropology. She pointed to two interesting projects:

Stephen M. Lyon made a experiment in "Open Ethnography". He put his fieldnotes and some other stuff from his research in Northern Pakistan online.

Paul Stirling did ethnographic research in two Turkish villages between 1949 and 1994. He collected formal household data in 1950, 1971 and 1985. Since 1990 he have been preparing an archive of this data for eventual public access for teaching and research, as well as the passerby who has a more than casual interest in Turkey and its past half-century of change.

Both projects sound interesting. The use for most of us would be very limited, but this is not what counts. For example, as stated by Stephen Lyon, there have been discussions via Internet about his fieldwork, and this is already a positive effect.

... Link (1 comment) ... Comment

AncientMexico is a nice website informing in a multimedia style about ancient cultures of mexico, peru and chile. Not quite a scientific ressource, but you could give the adress to your children for educational purpose, in case you're having children - which is in fact a serious trend among anthropologists ;-) Via Presurfer

... Link (0 comments) ... Comment

... Link (0 comments) ... Comment

Am Donnerstag, dem 6. März 2003, Beginn: 19.00 Uhr, findet im Staatlichen Museum für Völkerkunde, Maximilianstrasse 43-44, München, ein von der Deutsch-Indischen Gesellschaft veranstalteter Vortrag statt.

Referentin: Dr. Hilde K. Link

Thema: Vastuveda - von Göttern, Liebe, Gesundheit und Leben am richtigen Platz

Vastuveda ist eine Lebens- und Gesundheitsphilosophie, die aus der Lehre der Tempelbaumeistger hervorgegangen ist. Sie beinhaltet ein Konzept vom Kosmos und vom Menschen, das sich in allen Lebensäußerungen niederschlägt, auch in der Liebe, in der Gesundheit, im Leben am richigen Platz.

... Link (0 comments) ... Comment

From 1. to 31. March there are kurdish culture weeks in munich. Here is the program:

2nd - 17th of March: kurdish films in the Maxim Cinema; Landshuter Allee 33 jeweils So. 16:30; Mo. 19:00 02.03./03.03. - "Eine Saison in Hakkari" 09.03./10.03. - "Ein Lied für Beko" 16.03./17.03. - "Zeit der trunkenen Pferde"

1st - 31th of March: picture gallery with Hasim Saydan

• private view on 01.03. 19:00 (Bergmannstr. 35)
• monday to friday 16:00-20:00 and saturday, sunday 14-22:00

7th of March 19:00 reading with yilmaz odabasi in the "Eine Welt Haus" (Schwanthaler str. 80)

8th of march report of women of the situation in kurdistan

14th of march 19:00 discussion: turkey in change völkerkunde museum (maximilian str. 42)

21th of march -sketch, music (kurdish, persian, turkish) -slide lecture (with art photographer Sahin Aydin) -kurdish folk dances

... Link (0 comments) ... Comment

... Link (0 comments) ... Comment

There's currently a debate in the Open Source Community, how software, that has been released as free, can be prevented to be used for something the programmer didn't wan't. At the moment, the question is: Should Open Source developers help the U.S. prepare for war with Iraq?

... Link (0 comments) ... Comment

If you have not read any obituary to the influential US sociologist, read this one by Loïc Wacquant at csf.colorado.edu

... Link (1 comment) ... Comment