This paper (pdf) discusses the internet as a result of accidents: "Viewed in the light of the theory of accidental excellence, there is much to suggest that the success of the Internet and its various protocols derives from a communications technology accident, or better, a series of accidents." Via Monolog

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List of indian weblogs. Via Monolog

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Ok, it's unlikely that someone needs this, but you never know: "This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of eighteenth century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, Virginia slave trade in the eighteenth century, English slave trade (House of Lords Survey), Angola slave trade in the eighteenth century, internal slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, slave trade to Havana, Cuba, Nantes slave trade in the eighteenth century, and slave trade to Jamaica." Via Malorama

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A former student and currently doctoral candidate at our institute, Dirk Hengst, now studying at Harvard University and preparing his PhD thesis, recently realized his first internet-presentation. You not only will find a very creative pattern to encourage your own web-plans but some publications of Dirk Hengst, his projects, his expeditions and many stimulating ideas. It's worthwile and amusing to visit his pages.

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For some practical readings on intercultural communication, which is taught at our insitute, you may have fun reading this diary of a japanese girl which visited germany. It's written in german. It's really interesting what she wonders about: bikes, the huge germans and hectic shopping on saturday because of the "Ladenschlussgesetz". Via Schockwellenreiter

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Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (max. befristet gem. § 57b HRG - Vgr. IIa - BAT-O i.d.F. v. 10.01.2003) Aufgabengebiet: 1)Wissenschaftliche Dienstleistungen in Forschung und Lehre auf dem Gebiet der Afrikanischen Literaturen und Kulturen 2) Aufgaben zur Erbringung zusätzlicher wissenschaftlicher Leistungen Anforderungen: Abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium; möglichst überdurchschnittliche Promotion auf dem Gebiet afrikanischer Literaturen und Kulturen; Kenntnisse in populärer, performativer oder medialer afrikanischer Kunst und Literatur erwünscht. Den üblichen Bewerbungsunterlagen ist eine Skizze des beabsichtigten Habilitationsprojektes im Umfang von etwa zwei Seiten beizulegen. Bewerbungen sind innerhalb von 3 Wochen unter Angabe der Kennziffer AN/005/03 an die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, Dekanat (Sitz: Dorotheenstr. 26), Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin (Prof. Dr. F. Veit-Wild) zu richten. Zur Erhöhung des Frauenanteils sind Bewerbungen qualifizierter Frauen besonders willkommen. Schwerbehinderte werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt. Auf die Übersendung von Sichthüllen bitten wir aus Gründen der Portoersparnis zu verzichten.

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More than one thousand photos out of Africa : Mali, Burkina Faso, Egypt & many more. Click on the link and visit the gallery. All photos are available for private, editorial and commercial use.

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Margaret Mead an Gregory Bateson in New Guinea, 1938. From Roger Sanjek: Fieldnotes. The Makings of Anthropology. Title Page.

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This is great relief for the scientific community: As all of us just have their brains overloaded with the most important things of the world, like the exact measurements of all the arrows used in a small village in the brazilian rain forest around 1956, you have now the great chance of sorting out something. Forget about our URL "sonner.antville.org"! From now on you can easily use "ethnolog.de". Got it?

New adress of Ethno::log: ethnolog.de.

Of course you can still visit us under sonner.antville.org". This could also be more useful, as you will always see the correct URL of a story in your browser. If you visit the page via "ethnolog.de", the adresses line in your browser is always overwritten with "ethnolog.de".

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In Current Anthropology from Februar is a important debate about how far genetic determinism reaches. Cultural Anthropologists are complaining since some years about a overestimating of genetic determinism. Now they get help from the Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University. Paul Ehrlich and Marcus Feldman write in their paper: "A central theme of the flood of literature in recent years in "evolutionary psychology" and "behavioral genetics" is that much or even most human behavior has been programmed into the human genome by natural selection. We show that this conclusion is without basis." The Stanford authors argued that very visible evolutionary psychologists, such as MIT's Pinker, do not acknowledge "the importance of interactions and of cultural evolution" but promote the idea of a genetically fixed human nature. You should at least read this very good abstract of the debate from stanford university. In Current Anthropology you will find also some critical answers to the paper from scientists.

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We already reported about a new book from an australian historian which tried to disprove the thesis of the genocide of aborigines by the white man. Now Cathie Clement, Vice President of the Australian Council of Professional Historians Associations pointed us to a collection of links to debates and discussings of this book in australia. She explains: "The book is part of a range of writing that seeks to counter left-wing influence on people's thinking about the history of Indigenous Australians." Thanks for that!

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