On the 14. and 15. February 2003 there will be a workshop entitled "Ethnography of work -- Work of ethnography" at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Topics will be "Organization research", "Ethnography and discourse analysis", "Chances of participating ethnography", "Ethnographic Interviews", "Ethnography and information systems", a case study amongst DJs, and many more. The exact location of the workshop can be found here and a description of the way towards, here.

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The publisher "LIT-Verlag" offers a catalogue of new books in ethnology and anthropology (and also other sciences). Unfortunately it's not for download, but they will send it for free to you by snail mail. Update: Just forget it. This publisher seems to be to stupid to send it anyhow. After 4 weeks waiting I still haven't got a catalogue.

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The government of Panama decided to block all ports of Internet Providers that are used for making phone calls via internet. The purpose is apparently to stem telephone company revenue losses due to Internet telephony, writes Slashdot.

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I just got this link from a good friend of mine. It perfectly illustrates where todays unix-es come from, where it all started and where the connections are to each other. So there you can see a genealogical tree of unix and see if there is a link between a linux, a solaris and a freeBSD :)

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"The health of indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere was on a downward trajectory long before Columbus set foot in the Americas, researchers say." There's also a more clearly written article in the New York Times. (If you don't have an account there, you may use this: User: "ethno", Password: "log123" :o) Via Anthropology News

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A great tool for research in scientific articles is The Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute. You can search the database by author, titel, region or subject area and get a result of a mostly long list of articles to find in all kinds of publications. Thanks for this input by mail to Jürgen Plieninger. We are waiting for more hints like this, a weblog is not only for news!

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There's an Interview with Christa Müller from (I)ntact e.V. in todays Süddeutsche Zeitung about this topic. There you find also some information about a report concerning her work she will held on this monday in the Eine-Welt-Haus in München.

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The old conflict between China and Taiwan about flag and name of both countries is coming to your computer desktop now - or should we better say it's coming not: As Salon reports, a distributor of the alternative Operating System Linux, Red Hat, did remove the flag of Taiwan from the country settings of all their distributions (screenshot). They even commented the removing in the system files:

Mon Aug 5 2002 Than Ngo than@redhat.com 3.0.2-7.2
- add patch file to fix kicker segfault (bug #69688)
- get rid of Taiwanese Flag in KDE (bug #70235)

Hehe. A "bug" was that. Interesting. But people using computers sometimes take it very serious with configuring desktop and settings, even if there is no impact for the working of the computer, so soon there was big protest.

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...or "ethnologic" !!! News and topics of interest about the Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikanistik in München/Germany, a service created by students for students. Just some basic information, announcements, film presentations and features of the student ethnological magazine "Ethnologik". For every student yet studying or planing to do so in Munich a must to have a look at. Check once in a while for updates.

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In this german article the german newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung thinks about how the traditional american festival halloween made its way into the german culture within only five years. A nice example, that the inculturation of foreign traditions is not only a thing of vanishing cultures (or are we a vanishing culture?). And as always in such cases, the guardians of the traditional religion are not very happy with this trend. A theologian is cited, that the christian church is already fearing the loss of holidays like Sankt Martin and Sankt Nikolaus. Another article about this "new german holiday" can be found in Die Zeit. Via Netbib

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