"Ethnomed, the Institute for Ethnomedecine, is a network of over 5000 international scientists, researchers, practitioners, societies, and traditional healers. Ethnomed coordinates events, publications, and contacts worldwide. Ethnomed provides informations about publications, media contacts, research contacts, and an event calendar." Ethnomed publishes a newsletter which will be send either by e-mail, snail-mail or both. On their website the Newsletter can be ordered for free. Older newsletters, proceedings of their conferences, informations on conferences that will take place, a publications list, and more can be read there, too -- both in German and English.

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Centuries before the famously literate Maya, even before the Zapotecs, the Olmecs of ancient Mexico were carving symbols on stone and ceramics 2,600 years ago in what a team of archaeologists thinks is the earliest form of writing ever found in the New World, writes the NYTimes. Read more .... If you don't have an free account at NYTimes, you can use mine: user:ethno password:log123

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The NYTimes writes about the logs of Google and how they are representing a huge part of the actual thoughts of the world. "But the data could only reflect patterns, not explain them. That is a paradox of a Google log: it does not capture social phenomena per se, but merely the shadows they cast across the Internet. Very interesting! If you don't have an free account at NYTimes, you can use mine: user:ethno password:log123

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As part of a weekly series on women in business, BBC News Online talks to women in Africa who have taken up a career in technology, a field normally dominated by men. Via Wired News

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The Mac computer community is like a new-age religion, one expert argues, but is it truly a cult? Read more at Wired

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A Missionary with an infant From the cover of the magazine "Portugal em Africa", 1953, Nr. 55.

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The chair for Southeast Asian Studies of the University of Passau (Germany) maintains a classified and maintainedlink collection which points to nearly every available online information-source on Southeast Asia. The majority of the links points to online-newspapers and -magazines published in the region. If you are not a Souteast-Asia buff, you can use courrier international to easily reach online-newspapers and -magazines all over the world. The site allows you to search either alphabetically or regionally via a clickable map. Courrier international updates daily and provides summaries of selected articles -- in french ...

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Campus-Suche.de searches pages of most german universities.

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After the great success of the First World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), which brought more than 2000 scholars from 52 countries to the University of Mainz, it is planned that the Second WOCMES will be held in the Middle East or Europe in autumn 2005 or spring 2006. The Third WOCMES is due in 2008/2009. Read more ...

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The Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences has started to organise the third conference on "Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations" which will be held on June 18-21 2004 in Moscow. Read the first announcement and call for penal proposals ...

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The NY Times reviews a book (Dick Teresi: Lost Discoveries) which shows how much of the foundation of modern scientific thought and technological development was built by the mostly overlooked contributions of Arabs, Indians, Chinese, Polynesians and Mesoamericans. For reading the NY-Times you need a free account - or just use mine: User:ethno password:log123

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