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A "wiki" is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it: the beauty of a wiki is that anyone can edit and contribute.

Anyone enrolled in ANTH 103 Fall 2009 can contribute easily to the Wiki! Just create a free account so you can post and edit information. Then, simply click on Edit at the top of any article, or click on any dashed link. The dashed links represent an article that does not yet exist, but is requested. That's where you come in! Feel free to add or edit pages as you see necessary. Add your name to the bottom of any page you create. Need editing help?

This semester, students in ANTH 103: Cultural Anthropology at San Diego Miramar College chose to donate $25 on '''Kiva'''. According to the Kiva website: Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.

We chose to lend to Hasifa Nakato from Lugazi, Uganda. This Wiki was designed to compile information about life in Uganda from an anthropological perspective so we can know more about Ms. Nakato's life and worldview.

According to the Kiva website, "Hasifa Nakato is a hard working and determined 41 year old. She is married and has eight children ranging from age 25 to 4 years, in addition to caring for orphans. She has been the proud owner of a retail shop and a bar in Kiyindi for eighteen years, although the bar started up later because of public demand. From both businesses, Hasifa earns about $156 a month that helps to care for her family, including the payment of school fees. She is helped greatly by the loans and is able to balance her account books. She wants to become big in business, educate her children to the higher levels, and also to build rental houses from which her children will earn something even after she is gone. Hasifa needs to recapitalize her business so that she will be able to save more."

Our $25 will go toward a loan Ms. Nakato has requested for $4,325 in order to purchase more stock for her shop and help with education for her children. Based on the near perfect rate of repayment of Kiva loans, we expect the loan to be fully repaid within 6-12 months.

Please create and edit the following pages. Feel free to create more pages if necessary. For example, in the "Arts and Music" pages, you can create a page for Traditional Music, then divide it into several pages based on different types of music or different instruments.

Please write in your own words and then add the source (reference) for this information at the end of your edit.

• Geography

• Ecology/Environment

• Demographics

• History

• Languages

• Cuisine

• Marriage and Family

• Supernatural/Religious Belief Systems

• Politics and Justice

• Arts and Music

• Culture Change

• Other Topics of Interest

Feel free to create your own page here with links to interesting anthropological topics, musings about college life, or comments about working on the wiki. Create a link to your page and add it to the list below.

• Professor González