Department Hours next week

Just a heads up. I won't be holding office hours in the anthropology library on Thursday the 27th. Remember you can always come by my office in Lockwood, 221D. Just send me an email first to make sure I'll be in when you want to stop by.

Data on Developing Countries @ Development Gateway

What type of aid is effective? How effective has past aid been? What effect(s) has money laundering had on developing countries? What is legaling being done about the practice? How are indigenous populations being mainstreamed into an information society? Has biotechnology improved food production and food security? What is are the monthly and annual summaries for precipitation, temperature, humidity, hours of sunshine, evaporation estimates, wind speed, and total number of days with and without rainfall in Guinea-Bissau?

All of these questions and more can be answered at the Development Gateway.

For example, I found the IWMI On-Line Climate Summary Service through the gateway, under the topic "Water Management". So I went to their website at http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1047844, and registered (it's free). Once there I need to put in the name of the site and the longitude and latitude. Now I don't know anything about this kinda stuff so I did a google search using the terms guinea bissau longitude latitude and ran across another great site, Latitude and Longitude of Places in World Countries at mapsoftheword.com. Then I went back to IWMI and entered the site name, longitude and latitude. The data table is for the past 12 months and includes rainfall, humidity, temperature, sunshine, and annual totals.

So no matter what your data need try Development Gateway. It's an excellent resource for statistics, reports, and articles on almost every conceivable development issue.

Anyone graduating this year?

Looking for a job. I belong to an anthropology librarians listserv and the following job posting came up. Good luck to those who may apply.

ANNOUNCEMENT
Tenure-Track Position in Industrial Archaeology

MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY’S Program in Industrial Archaeology and History anticipates filling a tenure-track position for an industrial archeologist to begin academic year 2006-07. The ideal candidate will possess a research record and demonstrated scholarship related to the archeology of industry, as well as experience in field investigations related to the standing remains and material culture of industrial sites, and/or the organization of industrial communities. Duties will include (1) expanding an active field program involving graduate students through the development and acquisition of external funding from public and private sponsors; (2) contributing to undergraduate and graduate teaching (two classes per semester); (3) active writing and scholarly publications in the areas of industrial archaeology/industrial heritage; and (4) the advising of graduate students. PhD required; women and members of under-represented minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Salary and rank dependent upon qualifications, with the expectation of hiring at the assistant professor level.
The Program, situated in the Department of Social Sciences and comprising an outstanding group of multidisciplinary scholars and students in archaeology, anthropology, history, history of science/ technology, and architectural history, awards the MS and Ph.D. The scholarly emphasis is on the understanding of global industrial heritage remains and issues, both within the United States and abroad. Department website: http://www.social.mtu.edu/
Please submit a detailed letter of interest, current curriculum vitae, and names of three references to Chair, Industrial Archaeology Search Committee, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton MI 49931-1295. MTU faculty are represented by the AAUP. Michigan Technological University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer.
The Department will begin reviewing applications about November 15 and will continue until an appointment is made. Interviews may be scheduled at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archeology in Sacramento, CA. Final hiring decision and date of decision is subject to budgetary considerations, but position is scheduled to begin August 2006. Questions or queries should be addressed to the address above or to Dr. Patrick Martin, Program Director (pemartin@mtu.edu).

PBS for scholarly research?

That's right, watching PBS can help you in your research. Over the weekend I watched a very interesting program on primates. Two of the "hosts", David Watts and Chloe Cipolletta, were featured doing their fieldwork. I started to wonder, had they written anything on their findings? If I was doing a reseach project on violence in primates or building relationships between man and gorilla I might want to read what these two anthropologists have discovered.

I searched three databases for journal articles, Anthropological Literature, AnthroSource, and Anthropological Index Online and checked our catalogue and Worldcat for any books written by them.

I finally found two articles by David P Watts in Anthropological Index Online:

John C. Mitani, David P. Watts (1999). Demographic influences on the hunting behavior of chimpanzees American journal of physical anthropology. 109:4 pp 439-54.

Michael P. Muehlenbein, Benjamin C. Campbell, Robert J. Richards, David P. Watts, Frank Svec (2005). Leptin, adiposity, and testosterone in captive male macaques. American journal of physical anthropology. 127:3 pp 335-41.

In Anthropological Literature I found two articles by Chloe Cipolletta:

Allard Blom, C. Cipolletta, Arend M. H. Brunsting, Herbert H. T. Prins (2004). Behavioral responses of gorillas to habituation in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Republic. International journal of primatology. 25:1 pp179-196.

C. Cipolletta (2003). Ranging patterns of a western gorilla group during habituation to humans in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Republic. International journal of primatology. 24: 6 pp1207-1226.

I also found a video she did called Gorilla wild with Mireya Mayor in 2003 through Worldcat.

Now the big surprise came when I then search Social Sciences Citation Index to see if either of them had their articles cited.

A search for citations to Cipolletta's work brought up another article from the American Journal of Primatology written in 2004. I was also referred to 16 other authors who work with gorillas that had cited Cipolletta's work.

In the case of Watts I found six other articles dealing with chimpanzees and gorillas. All total these articles had been cited over 200 times!

So by combining information from a video, television program, or documentary with the library resources available at UB you can begin building quite a bibliography before you start your own searches using keywords.

Good Luck and good hunting!