Dept. of something different, kerlone, November 27, 2002 at 9:01:29 PM CET

When Tribal Art Meets McDonalds

Now, this is some really funny stuff two artists from England have produced: "In a darkened, hushed hall, pools of light illuminate painted wooden masks, stuck through with fetish nails, decorated with shells and goats' heads. They appear authentic until you notice the McDonald's logo everywhere. A burger as a primeval deity; a cult statue with the evil clown face of Ronald McDonald", reports The Guardian. And also The Telegraph. Charles Saatchi, the most influential collector of modern art in Britain, paid £1 million for the sculpures. Too bad the real tribal artist didn't have the idea! The objects of the gallery can be seen online hat the web page of the White Cube Gallery, London.

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Dept. of something different, kerlone, November 27, 2002 at 10:04:42 AM CET

Spiderman doesn't dance allone anymore

I wish we had as many contributors as Spiderman fellow dancers :-)

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Dept. of something different, MarcMurschhauser, November 20, 2002 at 12:48:29 AM CET

ANTHROPOLOGICAL MOORHUHN

...actually nothing anthropological. I'm sorry !!! But: a blast for everyone: the new MOORHUHN KART race. Lots of fun for everyone stressed by his/her work...and even for anthropologists as I think.

Free download, Phantom Kart Race, etc.

Just check it out and have fun...Cheers!

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Dept. of something different, kerlone, November 15, 2002 at 9:11:10 AM CET

700 Year Old Mickey Mouse Discovered

From the fascinating world of medieval cultures: In the austrian village Malta (Kärnten) this Mickey Mouse is clearly recognizeable on a church painting, reports ananova. The tourism office is already thinking about suing the Disney Company for trademark infringement. [This would give a great case to study for all diffusionist, wouldn't it?] Via Boingboing

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Dept. of something different, kerlone, November 13, 2002 at 4:10:46 PM CET

News Search Google

This article is for all wishing to contribute to the Ethno::log and are wondering were we get the news from. The news search of Google is a relatively new service of Google, but with the same power as the well know web search of Google. Many of the news here a retrieved by this tool. In this section I put together some links pointing directly to a search for a bunch of words. All links are sorted in regions and then in different kinds of searches. The most easy way to find things of interest are searches with the names of the ethnic groups, which mostly are not used for other things.

If you want a search query stored here also for your personal anthropological region, just leave a comment with the words you want to be linked to and I sort it in.

Ethnologie, Ethnologe, Anthropologie, Anthropologe###Ethnography Persons Levi-Strauss, Geertz, Malinowski Ruth Benedict , Franz Boas, Margaret Mead Persons Conquerors and discoverers: Columbus, de Ojeda, Vespucci ### Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba, Fernando Magellan ### Hernan Cortes, Bartolome de las Casas, Francisco Pizarro, Sebastian Cabot ### Nikolaus Federmann, Diego de Almagro, Gonzalo Mendoza Conquerors and discoverers in Chile: Juan Fernandez de Ladrillera, Juan Nunez del Prado ### Francisco de Ulloa, Francisco Aguirre, Francisco de Villagra###George Anson, John Narborough, John Byron, Richard Hawkins###Charles Darwin

Chile Bruce Chatwin, Pedro de Valdivia Martin Gusinde, Lucas Bridges

Ethnic Groups Chile - General: Indigenous and Chile, Araucanian or Patagonians ### Indigenous and Chile, Araukanian or Patagonians ### Chile and indian North-Patagonia: Picunche, Mapuche, Huilliche, Huilliches, Cuncos, Chiquillanes, Pehuenche ### Puelche, Chilote, Poyas, Promaucae, Lafquenche South-Patagonia: Chonos, Alacalufe, Yaganes, Tehuelche, Onas, Selknam ### Feuerlandindianer, Fuegians##Yamana, Selk'nam, Halakwulup, Alkaluf, Haush, Kaweskar, Manekenk

Indian Country Today. " Week in and week out, Indian Country Today publishes more original journalistic content on American Indian issues - written by a sizeable full time staff of American Indian and non-native reporters with extensive experience in Native communities - than any other news source."

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Dept. of something different, kerlone, November 6, 2002 at 12:16:18 AM CET

A Gay Spiderman

Yes, and now to something completely different. A gay spiderman. For example. Because this is the section for posting all things that don't belong to the main page of Ethno::log. And spiderman doesn't -- although he is on a poster which resides in zephyrin's office, but this is definitly not enough anthropological relation. It's the place for ethnologic poo, for jokes, for asking where the library of the institute is and for telling who is going out with whom. Things like that. If you post something in here, just select the topic "something different" and as status "online in topic". (BTW: It's matching our colors again ... )

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