Ah ... that's it, I already wondered about where the comments-link had vanished to. Then it suddenly appeared under the article, and I thought it was some kind of time-lag. Little did I know that the clan chief himself had interfered with the shaman's doings ;-) -- tnx, I'll check the boxes. Talkin' 'bout templates: F*** around with 'em a li'l more and bring back the category links to the front page, for hell's sake.

Btw, if someone may wonder about this kind of comment-threads, and thinks that they don't belong in here: That's called online-community building ... :-)

Don't think that you are in a community with me!
;-)

lol well such comments bring a bit more life - at least it shows that living ppl are behind :D

as for this quote, I guess this issue was brought up long ago by culture studies and Birmingam school. They have noticed that so called "other" moved into our neighbourhood (example may be all exotic societies of imigrants in UK, also some radical youth subcultures like metal music fans) and that it is nessesary to research it and to understand it. From this point of view Western culture consists from many different cultural groups and I guess cyberculture might be viewed as one of such cultural groups.

Also, even in remote regions of the globe so called "others" are touched by Western culture and there are no pure traditional societies left anymore I guess. I remember I have read somewhere rather interested field case, how an anthropologist asked native american about some custom and when respondent didn't know how to answer, he just asked the researcher to wait a bit, for he needs to go to library and read a book about his own tribe - and then he will be able to answer the question. That is interesting example how anthropology studies may do influence on the anthropology research subject :)