The Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (JTCC) is a peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary and transnational journal edited by Professor Mike Robinson (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) and Dr Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow, UK). This new journal focuses on critically examining the relationships, tensions, representations, conflicts and possibilities that exist between tourism/travel and culture/cultures in a rapidly changing and increasingly complex global context. Global capitalism, in its myriad forms engages with multiple 'ways of being', generating new relationships, re-evaluating existing, and challenging ways of knowing and being. Tourists and the tourism industry continue to find inventive ways to commodify, transform, present/re-present and consume "culture". The JTCC seeks to widen and deepen understandings of such changing relationships and stimulate critical debate. The JTCC seeks to address fundamental issues such as

• Local-global connectivity, transculturation and global ideological frameworks;
• The making and re-making of places, identities and pasts;
• The erosion, resistance and survival of traditions and local/ethnic cultural pattern;
• The changing forms of cultural expression in the contexts of the pre- and post- industrial, pre- and post-modern and the post-colonial world.
• The powerful creative dimension to tourism and cultural change that emerges in language and translation through approaches of literature, travel writing, language education, film, art and varieties of performance. For further information about submitting a paper or ordering this journal please contact Mike Robinson or go to the 'journal section' of the Channel View Publications website. via Anthro-L

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We are soliciting submissions for a collection of essays examining and implementing possible ways to present, represent, or perform the postfoundational (postmodern and/or poststructural) body/subject in autoethnography. Autoethnography, a qualitative research methodology which falls in the intersection of poststructural ethnography and autobiography, has predominately examined the body/subject of its focus as a modern self. Although much theoretical discussion has taken place around the intersection of postfoundational theories and qualitative research, few, if any, autoethnographies have been published which attempt to deal with the body/subject as a postfoundational phenomena. Thus, the question continues to arise, how would one write a postfoundational body/subject? What would a postfoundational body/subject "look" like? What are some possible modes of textualizing a postfoundational body/subject? We are interested in pieces that go beyond a theoretical discussion and embrace a wide variety of possible methods, including work that is poetic, fictional, performative, etc.

Submission should be made to the following: Jodi Kaufmann Department of Educational Psychology 325 Aderhold Hall University of Georgia Athens, GA

Works must be submitted on diskette, floppy or zip. Deadline for completed manuscripts is May 30, 2003. All inquires may be addressed to Jodi Kaufmann or Nathaniel Kohn. via Anthro-L

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"We at Rhizomes oppose the idea that knowledge must grow in a tree structure from previously accepted ideas. New thinking need not follow established patterns. Rhizomes promotes experimental work located outside current disciplines, work that has no proper location. As our name suggests, works written in the spirit of Deleuzian approaches are welcomed but not required. We are not interested in publishing texts that establish their authority merely by affirming what is already believed. Instead, we encourage migrations into new conceptual territories resulting from unpredictable juxtapositions."

A special-issue of Rhizomes, "Cultural Studies in emerging knowledge" is forthcoming, papers are still accepted: "RETRO-FUTURES" (Spring 2004) A special issue on historic utopias, nostalgic speculations, neo-traditions, modern primitives, archaic science fictions, being/becoming, new urbanism, invented traditions, primitivism, futurism, retro fashion, futurology, back to basics, neo-paganism, origin/destiny, simplicity, the classics, the space age, and any other combination of the old and the new is under construction at <a href="http://"www.rhizomes.net">Rhizomes. Testing the boundaries of cutting-edge and the timeless, the newfangled and the obsolete, “Retro-Futures” will peer into the culture and politics of temporality and everyday life." Abstracts by November 15th, 2003. Papers by January 15th, 2004. Send email attachment and/or html/web pages to davinheckman@hotmail.com or to dheckman@reconstruction.ws or see the contact page. via Anthro-L

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We are proud to announce the latest issue of Reconstruction (vol.3, no.2), a journal and online community dedicated to interdisciplinary thought. Included in this issue are:

In line with our efforts to foster intellectual community, Reconstruction also hosts a message board dedicated to interaction between authors and readers, and between readers themselves, hoping to affect a more communal approach to, and understanding of, academic journals and intellectual thought and action. Please take the time to participate in this experiment in community.

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I just stumbled about a early online magazine, made by the colleagues from the University of Münster, called Ethnologie Heute (Anthropology Today). Only three issues back in the end of the 90's have been published, then it sadly seems to have been discontinued (even if there's a button misleading to other beliefs, saying "Against War" - it's against the war in yugoslavia). You can still read the articels from the former issues. Well, I hope the Ethno::log won't be discontinued; but it looks good at the moment. Its surprising, that a lot of people not involved in anthropology and even from different continents are not only reading this site, but also posting news and thoughts here. I guess, the advantage of the Ethno::log is, that it's really easy to quickly post (in bad english) about a news or a website, you found in your daily work.

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The Guardian has a review of an interesting book about the spanish conquest and colonisation from Henry Kamen, called "Spain's Road to Empire": "The conquistadores were wrongly named. Those brave men who crossed the Atlantic to "discover" the New World were neither all-conquering, nor all Spanish. Perhaps they should have been called adventurers, collaborators or opportunists, though if you ask a Latin American, you'll hear some choicer suggestions. The point, as made by Henry Kamen in this impressive study, is that Spain alone neither created nor maintained the Spanish empire, which at its peak covered a third of the world, from the Netherlands to New Mexico. Spain did not even exist as a political entity until the 18th century. It was merely an association of states, of which the most powerful was Castile."

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Accompanying its tremendously popular Aztec Exhibition (see older stories here and here) -- which will last till 11. April 2003 -- the Royal Academy of Arts, London has published a catalogue. The beautiful oversized volume -- which at the moment lies right in front of me on my desk -- comprises 520 pages of heavy-stock high-gloss papers. Besides the innumerable and large high-quality photographies of the exhibition's artefacts, it includes detailed descriptions, a bibliography, an index, essays on the different sections and much more. MOCTEZUMA, FERNANDO MATOS AND FELIPE SOLÍS OLGUÍN. 2002. Aztecs. London: Royal Academy of Arts. [ISBN 1-903973-22-8 (paperback, 27.95 pounds), 1-903973-13-9 (hardback, 55.00 pounds)]

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A former student and currently doctoral candidate at our institute, Dirk Hengst, now studying at Harvard University and preparing his PhD thesis, recently realized his first internet-presentation. You not only will find a very creative pattern to encourage your own web-plans but some publications of Dirk Hengst, his projects, his expeditions and many stimulating ideas. It's worthwile and amusing to visit his pages.

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The Guardian has a book review of Marcus Boon, "The Road of Excess. A History of Writers on Drugs", Harvard 2002. It is not devoted to anthropologists, it's rather about all kinds of writers on drugs, also from science. But as cultural anthropology is undoubtly still a science, where some fieldwork was done under the influence of drugs, (I remember Malinowski, and also Johannes Fabian proved it (Im Tropenfieber. Beck, 2001)), this book could give an interesting additional view on the history of writers on drugs. Yet more, as it seems to stay without opinion if this is a good or a bad thing.

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Looking for a classic book in anthropology? Take a look at this (of course subjective) list of 99 Anthropological Classics

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It seems like the 'shamanism-buffs' have discovered digital media. The munich-based club 'Ethnomed e.V.' (see older story) has published its first DVD, which is called "Voices and Rituals concerning Ethnomedicine" I haven't had the DVD in hands myself, but as I understand it contains numerous interviews (I guess in german), music, slideshows and some videos which were shot on the conference 'Rituals of Healing'. The conference was organised by Ethnomed e.V. and took place in Munich (Germany) in 1999. You can read more here (in german) and judge yourself.

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Here is a newly-added publication which could be of interest to you. The Special Price offer is on all orders received till 15 Feb 2003. Also, we _make all shipments by registered AIRMAIL with no additional charges. You may give a reference to this bulletin while ordering. For ordering details please refer at the end.

BENISTI, MIREILLE. 2003. Stylistics of Buddhist Art in India. New Delhi: Aryan Books International. [2 Vols. Contents: vol. 1. Text. xiv, 345 p. ills. ISBN: 8173052417. vol. 2.Plates. vi, 174 p. ills. maps. ISBN: 8173052425. In association with Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi.]

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