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admin — Sun, 23 May 2010 03:22:12 +0000

For people who don’t like going to crowded malls, online shopping is their best and last resort! They can get everything they need with just a few clicks of their mouse buttons, at the comfort and convenience of their own homes! Whether they want luxurious and comfortable fauteuil style chairs, or have a taste of dragées mariage chocolates and candies and even matériel golf equipment! The internet is the one-stop-shop to satisfy every ones needs!

Documents on Anthropological Multimedia

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:06:40 +0000

What is the proper role for interactive multimedia technology in anthropological research, development and publication? The papers gathered at this web site endeavor to answer this question—a complex question, and one not easily answered. In the course of the one of the articles cited here, the author is wise to paraphrase Levi-Strauss, who always said we should to avoid the trap of thinking (or letting others think) that new technology is merely bien a manger (i.e. that the consumption of new technology is inherently good and brings its own inherent rewards). As the writer suggests, technology best serves the purposes as anthropologists when they realise it is also bien a penser. One item particularly worth reading here is Marcus Banks’s “Interactive multimedia and anthropology: a sceptical view.” Banks—a Reader in Social ft Cultural Anthropology and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge—has done more research and thinking on the role of multimedia in the teaching of anthropology than just about anyone else on the planet. His insights are invariably plentiful, hard-won, and pertinent. Banks argues, with justice, that interactive multimedia is bound, in the long run, to hurt more than help in the research and teaching of anthropology. As he says, all pure research is a linear, and thus bound to be corrupted (rather than enhanced) by invasive technology.

Cultural Survival: Helping Save Indigenous Cultures

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:02:10 +0000

Cultural Survival, founded in 1972, is a recognized leader anibg educational and cultural organizations speaking out for the rights, voice and vision of indigenous peoples. Cultural Survival believes that indigenous peoples should be able to determine their own futures on their own lands (and on their own terms). Through its website and publications, student conferences and educational outreach, Cultural Survival draws attention to the issues confronting indigenous peoples, and promotes the cause of self-determination. Cultural Survival’s projects emphasize the need to build partnerships with and between indigenous peoples and their program serves as a means of pro-indigenous advocacy. Here at the web site. Cultural Survival provides important and, above all, carefully analyzed information concerned with reconciling economic development and human rights in an era of globalizing capitalism. Related topics of interest include the prospects for multiculturalism in pluriethnic societies This web site includes online indexes to Cultural Survival’s magazine, Cultural Survival Quarterly, along with reports on Cultural Surval events and projects, and in-depth articles on a range of topics, among them a fascinating piece on the Macuxi, Wapixana, IngarikO and Taurepang of Raposa-Serra do Sol in which an anthropologist documents the struggle of indigenous people to have their ancestral land protected—rather than despoiled—by the Brazilian government. Tune in here for the news corporate media is not likely to mention, let alone highlight.

ALEX FINDS WAYNE GRETZKY ON THE NET

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:53:32 +0000

When 9-year-old hockey player Alex Tapscott and his teammate Stephen Senders needed to solve a debate about their hero Wayne Gretzky, they interrupted Alex’s dad to get access to the Net. Dad took a break from his Mac, and two minutes later the boys had found an NHL server in hawaii containing a spec sheet on Gretzky They printed it with a color photo of their hero and the debate was settled. They were both right. When Dad asked Alex why he went to a server in Hawaii, Alex replied:
“We just thought it was so amazing that they would have information about hockey in Hawaii that we wanted to check it out.” Alex and Stephen—Net surfers. The new technology is penetrating our lives; much of this is happening through our children. Over one-quarter of American homes have a computer, but for many adults the machine is a mystery, or it is used for word processing, accounting, or home business applications. Children, on the other hand, are using machines for games, homework, communications, art, music, reference, and a host of emerging applications on the Internet. The average age of an Internet user is twenty-one and declining.
Such communications capacity doesn’t mean an end to infojunk. When telegraph wires were first strung between Texas and Maine in the nineteenth century, writer Henry Thoreau wondered if the two states really had anything constructive to communicate. Maybe, Thoreau said, the telegraph system was nothing more than an “improved means to an unimproved end.” Thoreau isn’t the only writer to twit new ideas. Columnist Dave Barry has had similar fun with the information highway, wondering whether or not the whole thing isn’t just “CB radio with more typing.”
But already software “agents,” or “knowbots,” are in the marketplace. They go out onto the Net to find the information you want. Rather than drowning in data, agents will provide the structure to form data into information and the context into which to translate information into knowledge. When you apply your own human judgment and transhistorical insights, knowledge can become wisdom. Chances are the Net will enable us to move up this chain rather than down.

Current Anthropology: Journal from Univ. of Chicago Press, online edition

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:05:32 +0000

Current Anthropology is a transnational journal devoted to research on humankind, encompassing the full range of anthropological scholarship on human cultures and on the human and other primate species. Communicating across the subfields, the journal features papers in a wide variety of areas, including social, cultural, and physical anthropology as well as ethnology and ethnohistory, archaeology and prehistory, folklore, and linguistics. Articles for the online edition are available as Full Text, Postscript, and PDF files—take your choice. Editions of the journal available online begin with Volume 40, number 5 (in other words, every edition since December 1999. Although this presently makes for a fairly limited digital backlist, all future editions of the journal will be published and archived on the web, so the library will quickly grow in weight and usefulness. Recent articles include “The Social Behavior of Chimpanzees and Bonobos:
Empirical Evidence and Shifting Assumptions,”“Cheating at Musical Chairs: Territoriality and Sedentism in an Evolutionary Context,”“The Distributional Approach: A New Way to Identify Marketplace Exchange in the Archaeological Record,” and “Sex, Sound Symbolism, and Sociolinguistics.” The site also includes listings and contact info for the editors and editorial board, details on how to submit articles for publication, and a handy searchable index items published in the journal.