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One of my favorite past time is browsing the internet, looking for great deals and discounts. The internet is really a great source of fabulous items and services. This is where I get my dragées mariage chocolate and candy boxes, that I sometimes give out to friends, my luxurious and comfortable fauteuil style chairs and also the matériel golf equipment that I gave my boyfriend on his birthday! The internet is truly the best thing that happened to homebodies like me.

The Anthropology Review Database (ARD) is intended to improve the level of access of anthropologists to anthropological literature by making them more aware of what is being published and helping them to evaluate its relevance to their own interests. Unlike the more traditional print journals, ARD is not constrained by production deadlines and has few running costs. ARD can keep abreast of the production of new materials, and do so in a much more timely fashion than the traditional media. Envision an almost continuous flow of information from publisher to reader, by way of this database. AMID has no volumes, issues, or page numbers, just the name and date of the review, and the site’s URL to reference them. They also occasionally feature multiple reviews of more controversial items as well as links to reviews published elsewhere. ARD for is a brand new resource for anthropology and a first-rate example of the new species of online publication. Unlike traditional periodicals, ARD reviews are published individually, as soon as they clear the editorial process. Documents are housed in an online database where they can be accessed at any time. This is web publishing at its best—timely, easy-to-navigate, information rich, and focused on important material. At this writing, ARD houses no less than 1287 vital reviews. Editor in Chief and Web- master is Hugh JaMs of the Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo.

Here it is. All the anthropology news that’s fit to print. Call this The New York Times of anthro, the Chicago Tribune of all that is new in the study of human culture. Want the latest on doctors in Ghana working with traditional healers, Spokane native Americans threatening suicide unless their ancestral lands are left unspoiled, or the restoration of ancient 12th century Egyptian aqueduct? This is the type of thing you will find at this great web site, brought to you courtesy of the Anthropology Department at Texas ARM. Learn about
paleontologists unveiling the most complete “Apeman” skull ever excavated, DNA studies on the “Kennewick Man,” and the strange tale of the world’s “oldest hat.” In other words, from the vital to the absurd, it is all here in a page updated weekly without fail. In addition to core anthropology news, you also get specific reports from the frontlines of various specialties including Bioanthropology, Socio/Cultural Anthropology, Linguistics. There is, believe it or not, important and engaging news on the linguistics front. Did you know the native language of Labrador is headed for extinction, with only a few speakers left walking the world? Did you know that a baby’s first words are usually uttered in sign language, or that it isn’t just Dr. Dolittle who can talk to the animals? Find out more at the Anthropology in the News website.

This great online guide to anthropological fieldwork comes to us courtesy of Dr. Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Associate Professor Of Anthropology, Truman State University. Covering all aspects of planning (proposals, pep, field site selection), field methods, and the writing of fieldnotes and final reports, Dr. Zimmer-Tamakoshi’s Web pages are rich in beautiful photographs from her own trips as well as insightful essays on the the art, science and profession of anthropology. What is more, Dr. Zimmer-Tamakoshi makes a point of leveraging the Web’s multimedia potential by including sound-enhanced visual clips from her own fieldwork among the Gende tribe of New Guinea. Dr. Zimmer-Tamakoshi also provides an in-depth glossary of anthropological terms, an extensive bibliography of key references, and a sensitive essay on what it is like to leave the field—not to mention a culture into which one has thoroughly immersed, an original friends to which one has become attached, and ancient ways of thinking one has come to appreciate and understand—and return home to the culture shock of what some call the civilized world. But as Zimmer-Tamakoshi points out, fieldwork never really ends. In finding a distant land and people to become intimate, the good anthropologist adopts (in part, at least) a new culture, develops a new family, and wins a second home, to which he or she can and should always plan to return.