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The World Cup is almost over … but here is a last „Schmankerl“ for you all! Playing with clichés … For a complete and official download … go to Pepsi MyDaDaDa.

In: Dietrich Reimer’s Mitteilungen für Ansiedler, Farmer, Tropenpflanzer, Beamte, Forschungsreisende und Kaufleute. Jahrgang 1909, Heft 2, S. 87. Articles found on Hygiama: – Brauch, Wilhelm, 1925: Ãœber den Vitamingehalt des Diätetischen Nährpräparates „Hygiama“. Journal of Molecular Medicine, Volume 4, Issue 46. – Sobotta, 1902: Konzentrierte Nährmittel. Das Rothe Kreuz 20, 474 (Dr. Theinhardts Hygiama). Comment: […]

Although Dutch occupation and settlement in Brazil all in all only play a minor role in world and colonial history, there are some interesting facts and very important relics of that time. Also drawn by high profit expectations of slave- based sugar industry, in 1630 the Dutch conquered a strip along the northeast coast, what’s […]

My dear friend anthronaut will be leaving for Perú soon. Good luck!! He had a brilliant idea indicating where he will be at. Have a look yourselves! Predestined for copying this idea, thanks also to Google Earth. This is where I will be spending days and nights very soon for my doctoral field research on […]

We all remember Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003, I’m sure. Personally, I think, one of the funniest and best movies I have seen in the last years, which might be due to Johnny Depp acting as one of my favourites, the feeling of such easy entertainment with […]

Notes on todays cruise through the internet … My itinerary – Friday, the 16th of June 2006: 11:00 Yet another YouTube video: Germany’s joker goal in overtime to win their second match against Poland in the ongoing World Cup 2006 and celebrations in Munich (via odd-fish and 2R)! 11:05 Actually I never got into YouTube […]

Marshall Sahlins is considered one of the most influential anthropologists of present time (and my favourite!). He was born in 1930, he grew up in Chicago, studied at the University of Michigan and at Columbia University, where he earned his Ph.D. at the age of 24. Very much influenced by theories of Karl Polanyi and […]

About three weeks ago I became infected as well … a virus very dangerous circulating around the globe as it seems … the virus causes the so-called „panini-syndrome“, highly connected with an event that is going to start within very few hours … El Mundial, die Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft, the FIFA Soccer World Cup. Today „High Noon“ […]

The Asociación de Antropólogos Ibero- americanos en Red – AIBR presents in its online magazine titled „Género, cuerpo y sexualidad. Cultura y ¿Naturaleza?“ (Gender, Body, and Sexuality. Culture and Nature?) various articles worth reading on the topic. (Older editions on different topics available also, unfortunately most is in Spanish.) Within this edition there is an […]

In the last session of my tutorial questions arose on what Thick Description actually is, were it comes from, how it might be best defined, how Clifford Geertz used it and what to think of „one of the most widely used texts in introductory anthropology courses“ (Kerim, Savage Minds). And as if the world wouldn’t […]