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Burkina Faso Calendar


The munich college "Gymnasium Fürstenried West" has a project running for Burkina Faso. If you haven't yet a calendar for the next year or need a little gift for your colleague at university, you should take a look at the Burkina Faso Calendar 2003 (PDF) with impressing photos in color. Just print it out! And then spend some money for the project. Just better than buying a calendar in a shop, they are really expensive.

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The Other Side of Windows


MicroaidsBill Gates did spend 100 Million Dollars for the fight against AIDS in India, reports IPS. But the indians are skeptical, because they feel domineered by the americans. [Yes, even a 100 Million donation could have cultural implications.] Addendum by zephyrin: I just had a conversation with our institute's head who has read this story and gave an interpretation to me which at first glance seems rather cynical -- but it's grounded on his insight into indian society: The indians may feel to be dominated, because they fear that it's looked after by the Americans that the $100 million donation by Bill Gates really are put into the fight against AIDS. They themselves hope to channel the money into the construction industry or what they fancy. In this context domination means: People from outside India are bypassing the informal distribution-system inside India.


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The Renaissance of the American Indian



Interior View of the Medicine Lodge, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony, 1832 Mandan/Numakiki oil
On the occasion of an exhibition in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington about George Catlin, a painter of indians, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung thinks about an renaissance of the indian. The collection, worth visiting at least online, features 32 pictures the painter produced in the 19th century. They are a little bit peculiar melancolic and with simple romance. The feuilletonist of the NZZ thinks about this exhibition as remarkable and sees a renaissance of indians, beeing influenced by 9/11. The indian as noble savage build some counterpart to the evil terrorist, he writes.


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At a Market in Mexiko


Our mexican reader artec writes: "I took [this photo] in San Miguel de Allende (Mexico), I hope you'll like it. By the way it was taken in a marketplace." Thanks for that!

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Tell me the Future


At dusk, an astrologer sits outside his shop talking with a customer. (Photographed by Steve McCurry while on assignment for, but not published in, “India: Fifty Years of Independence,” May 1997, National Geographic magazine)


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Bookreview: Cognitive Models and Spiritual Maps


There's a review of the book "Cognitive Models and Spiritual Maps: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Religious Experience" at Human Nature Review. Via Anthro-L


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Cognitive Science: Away from Step by Step Semantics


In this interesting paper (only for subscribers/universities) the 'neurophilosopher' Patricia Churchland is thinking about a different way of cognitive theory that sees the brain not as something identifying objects in the world by assigning them to one abstract model in the brain, but by embedding them into a larger neural model of the world. As I think, Cognitive Theorys play a huge role in cyberethnology. This article is not the big thing, but it's interesting to know, that there are also nature scientists with philosophic bachground thinking about this topic. You can read a hasty excerpt on my private german weblog.


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Population Database


At the United Nations Website is a great database called UNPP, which delivers detailed population profiles of every region and country in the world. You can also take a look at the projected growth of populations, even with parameter, for example only the projected growth of the rural population in Peru until 2050. Via Science Netwatch Sociology

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Interview with the God of the Web


The inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee was a 1 November guest on National Public Radio (NPR) Talk of the Nation: Science Friday. Host Ira Flatow and callers from the United States discussed inventions, the Semantic Web, privacy, patents, broadband, "always on" connections, openness, trust, and spam. NPR provides a three-quarter hour audio archive of the show, as well as Mr. Berners-Lee's previous visit to Science Friday in 1999. Berners-Lee is still a important personality, having some influence on the development of the technology and the standards of the internet. Via W3C.org

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TCPA - The Death Of Internet As We Know It ?


Today I was at a friend's and he told me about TCPA and a part of the new Microsoft OS, Palladium. TCPA isa plan of big companies that links hardware, software, and data into a neat package that allegedly is more secure and convenient for users. Or, putting it in simpler terms, it's Microsoft's answer to fixing everything that's wrong with computing today. This changes, if made true, will have an immense impact on the current way we use our computer. And it's also an attack to the GPL (General Public License - a form of Open Source Software) as the first article shows. So - and thats an really interesting cyberethnological aspect - it's an provocation to the ethical elite of the ICT-World. The Open Source people, the Open Information people, the hackers, the privacy defenders, all of them will probably attack this strategies and will offer alternative solutions - if they can. Which way the consumer will go? Which force is stronger? Here are the three links, which I read and afterwards I was really shocked. Unfortunatelly the first link is in german.

Der versiegelte PC TCPA/Palladium FAQ 1.0 - english Preparing For The Digital Dark Age


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How You Should Treat Your Robot


Funny: There is an American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots. They say: "Robots are people too! Or at least, they will be someday." My comment: Of course, this is a fun-site. But maybe there is some seriousness in the idea, at least it could be. The autor points to the The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and realises, that they were also ridiculed in 1890. So, it is possible that we, that our culture, is changing the idea we have of an robot in the future - in the same way we changed the concept of an animal. Via ITW


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New Museum in Peru Devoted to Moche-King


In Peru a new museum opened, dedicated only to Lord of Sipan, a former King of the Moche Population, Yahoo reports. The Moche lived approximately between 200 B.C. and 1000 A.D. in the dry northwest of Peru. Today they are also famous for their impressive portrait art. And yes, we have books about them in the library! Via Anthropology in the News

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