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Publications of the Royal Museum for Central Africa


The Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) is the editor of a series of scientific publications (Annals and other collections), publicity material, exhibition catalogues and special editions. Since its' foundation in 1897, the Museum has published nearly 2500 books in different subjects and collections. Check out at least their Human Sciences Publications.


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Journal Ethnologie 1/2004


This year's first issue of Journal Ethnologie (in german) has been published. This issue of the fine ethnological online-journal has its main focus on traditional medecine and carries articles on traditional healing among the Yupno of Papua-New Guinea, a medical-anthropological study on organ-transplantation, an article on Aids and migration in Tanzania, a piece on Vastuveda by our institute's Hilde Link and much more ... like an agenda of current ethnological exhibitions, books, interviews ... If you are interested in social/cultural anthropology (and if you can read german) make sure to regularly stop by at Journal Ethnologie. The staff over there copes with a tremenous task and makes sure that people outside of the academic community of social/cultural anthropology are able to understand the contents, too. (german footnote) Im Journal Ethnologie schreiben EthnologInnen und KulturwissenschaftlerInnen an deutschsprachigen Museen und Universitäten für eine an ethnologischen Themen interessierte Öffentlichkeit. Es bietet unter anderem eine Übersicht über aktuelle Ausstellungen ethnologischer Museen. Herausgegeben wird das Journal-Ethnologie vom Museum der Weltkulturen in Frankfurt am Main. So, students, tell your friends about Journal Ethnologie and you won't need to try to explain to them again and again what that is ... "Ethnologie". see our older story, too.


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Rwanda's Genocide


Linda Melvern's (1)Linda Melvern is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Department of International Politics. An investigative journalist, she previously worked on the Sunday Times in London, including as a member of their award-winning Insight Team. Since leaving the paper to write her first book, she has written widely for the British press. Her book on the fifty-year history of the UN was turned into a major television series, UN Blues, for Channel Four television. She writes for British newspapers and magazines and lectures and broadcasts on international issues. She has been researching the circumstances of the genocide in Rwanda for nearly eight years and her account of the genocide, A People Betrayed. The Role of the West in Rwanda?s Genocide was published in September 2000 by Zed Books. It was chosen book of the year in The Observer by Geoffrey Robertson, QC and she was the runner-up in the 2001 Martha Gellhorn journalism award. The book is in its third impression and an updated and revised edition will be published in 2003. via Anthropology Matters book A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide (2)MELVERN, LINDA. 2000. A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide, London: Zed Books. [ISBN: 185649831X] is now available in german (3)MELVERN, LINDA. 2004. Ruanda: Der Völkermord und die Beteiligung der westlichen Welt. München, Kreuzlingen: Hugendubel, Diederichs. [ISBN: 37205248668]. "The subject of A People Betrayed, by the British investigative journalist Linda Melvern, is the catastrophe that descended on the tiny Central African nation of Rwanda in 1994. Historians and analysts of these events have long linked western policies to the "genocidal frenzy" that gripped Rwanda for twelve unforgettable weeks -- a period during which the rate of mass killing exceeded that of the Jewish holocaust by roughly fivefold." Read the full review by Adam Jones and don't miss the discussion Representing Rwanda: Questions and Challenges at Anthropology Matters.


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Cooper: Bibliography of Tierra del Fuego


Well, let's don't talk about open research, let's do it. Again I scanned a book for my own use which is most likely without copyright now. This time it's John M. Coopers brilliant bibliography from 1917 about all kinds of works about tierra del fuego, containing useful short comments about all of the travelers, scientist and missionaries (quite a few!). Half of the book is a also useful systematic but basic ethnography thrown together by single observations of various autors. At there's a map too. Update: It's on a new server. Thanks korikori!

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US Bans Editing of Scientific Articles from Certain Nations


The government of the US prohibits the editing of scientific articles from Libya, Sudan, Iran, and Kuba because they are under trade embargo. While publishing of a manuscript, which is completly ready for print, is allowed, not even a comma may be changed, and no images may added. This makes it more or less impossible for a journal like Current Anthropology to publish scientific articles of authors from those countries, as translation will be also prohibited. Read more at NYTimes (User:ethno Password:log123) or Telepolis (german).


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Book Review: Kybernetische Anthropologie


Telepolis with review of a the german book Stefan Rieger, Kybernetische Anthropologie. Eine Geschichte der Virtualität.: Anthropologie und Kybernetik, oder: Der Mensch kehrt zurück Surprisingly I didn't find much about anthropology (as I know) in there, but i did only skim over the text.


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Markham: Narratives of Pedro Sarmiento de Gambóa


I scanned a english translation from the two voyages of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, done by Clements Markham in 1895 for the Hakluyt Society for my own use. Maybe someone will find it useful too, thats why I publish it here. Clements Markham died in 1916, thats why its public domain now. Sarmiento de Gamboa was a famous spanish navigator who tried to build a settlement in the straits of magellan in the years 1581-1590 (which ended in a dramatic loss of ships and lifes). [show bibliographic information] Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa: Narratives of the voyages of Pedro Sarmiento de Gambóa to the Straits of Magellan. (Reprint of Hakluyt Society First Series 91, New York : Burt Franklin, 1895). New York : Lenox Hill, 1970. - Edition of 1895 edited, translated and provided with an introduction by Markham, Clements R. Update: Not online anymore. Try the scan at Google Books instead.


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Mobile Cultures


Interesting book found by accident: "Mobile Cultures provides empirically grounded studies of the connections between new media technologies, the globalization of sexual cultures, and the rise of queer Asia." [show full title] Mobile Cultures. New Media in Queer Asia. Edited by Chris Berry, Fran Martin and Audrey Yue. Duke University Press. Published April 2003, 296 pages, paper ISBN 0822330873


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Map of the indians of tierra del fuego


I scanned a map from Martin Gusinde "Die Feuerlandindianer" for my own use. Maybe someone will find it useful too, thats why I publish it here as Gusinde's books are rare to find. Its a little bit of patchwork, but enough for a first overview. Detailed bibliographic information will follow.
Martin Gusinde: Geographische Verbreitung der Feuerlandindianer (1 MB, jpg)

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Representations of the Others


The following PDF-Publication discusses the Representation of Others in a wide field of different encounters: Between "disembodied male readers encountering fictional females to World Fair visitors observing the ?primitive?, Swedish travellers writing about Palestinians, Western newspapers conceptualising Afghanistan, Russian intellectuals meeting the masses, and web-site tourists visiting the Baltic."

Hurd, Madeleine: Encounters. Representations of the Others in Modern European History. Huddinge : Södertörns Högskola, 2003. publications.uu.se (9 Dez. 2003).


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Travel Industry World Yearbook


book As tourism has developed to be quite an issue inside cultural anthropology I thought I'd provide a data-source for research in that field: "For the past 45 years, the Travel Industry World Yearbook -- The Big Picture has provided marketers in as diverse sectors as airlines, hotels, car rental companies, convention and visitor bureaus, destinations, cruise companies, travel agencies, advertising, accounting and law, investment banking, and economists and educators, with a better understanding of the events, issues and challenges that shape the travel and tourism industry. With its own, unique approach, the Yearbook highlights the main events and searches beyond the headlines to root out causes and effects and what they mean for the travel industry. Statistics are an important part of our presentation, but equally important is covering regions, countries, and industry sectors with in-depth analysis. This remains our operative method." [underline added] Read more or browse its contents and features. The volume is quite costly ($125,-), but having a look at it in the library may do as well ;-) And chances are good that your library holds the whole series which started in 1958.

TRAVEL INDUSTRY PUBLISHING COMPANY (Ed.). 2003. Travel Industry World Yearbook: The Big Picture 2002. New York: Travel Industry Publishing Company. [ISBN 0-9673634-2-X, ISSN 0738-9515]


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Amazons in Munich!


book"Alien worlds and sensation. Around 1900 in munich a new genre of entertainment emerged. The business with the exotic was at the same time an image of european colonialism." A new book deals with ethnic exhibitions (Völkerschauen) in Munich around 1900. It contains 15 articles by different authors which are sorted into chapters called "Fairs of the exotic", "Exotic knowledge", "Exotic theatre", and "Imaginations of the exotic". Topics range from "The curiosity of the civilised" to "Cinema and the exotic". The volume is printed on heavy stock glossy paper, contains an ample bibliography and on its 320 pages countless photographies, drawings and reproductions of posters and the like are to be seen.

DREESBACH, ANNE AND HELMUT ZEDELMAIER (Eds.). 2003. "Gleich hinterm Hofbräuhaus waschechte Amazonen": Exotik in München um 1900, München, Hamburg: Dölling und Gallitz. [ISBN: 3-935549-77-6]


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