Capital social, confiance et développement territorial. Une étude appliquée en Kabylie by Cécile Perret, Belaïd Abrika

“…As numerous economists and anthropologists underline it, informal organizations are created in the absence of strong formal insitutions or in the case of lack of trustworthiness. …”
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Un cercueil dans la cour : des funérailles évangéliques dans une famille transnationale haïtienne by Nadège Mézié

“…While Haitian vodou funerals have been studied extensively by anthropologists, little is known about how they are organized and carried out by evangelical families and churches. …”
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La Flora Común es la Flora Medicinal by Brent Berlin, Elois Ann Berlin

“…The system is public and merits study by anthropologists, ethnobotanists, students of ethnomedicine, and laboratory analysis, always in close collaboration with the Mayan communities, with regard to methods of preparation and administration, bioactivity, toxicity, and quality control.…”
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« Au-delà d’un simple divertissement » : les effets symboliques de la pratique des jeux de ficelle chez les Inuit by Céline Petit

“…Anthropologists and ethnographers who observed the making of string figures in various indigenous societies at the turn of the 20th century often described this practice as highly elaborate. …”
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Tuo Dolphins by Rolf Erik Scott, Peter Ian Crawford

“…Moffat Bonunga, visits the Danish anthropologists Jens Pinholt and Peter I. Crawford in Aarhus to help them with their work on the film project. …”
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Marrons, colons, contrebandiers. Réseaux transversaux et configuration métisse sur la côte caraïbe colombienne (Dibulla) by Anne-Marie Losonczy

“…Their regime of memory and historicity, as well as their socio-political organization which overrides ethnic, regional and national borders, make this society a remarkable illustration of a kind of cross-border sociability, without community and definable collective identity, rarely studied by anthropologists. This form of society may be a distinctive facet of Caribbean cultures.…”
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A Review of Japanese Ecological Anthropology on Central African Hunter-gatherers by Mitsuo Ichikawa

“…I will describe here three approaches that have been taken and developed by Japanese ecological anthropologists to the study of central African hunter-gatherers. …”
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Miejsca kultury w antropologii i etnografii edukacyjnej by Hana Červinková, Tomasz Woźniak

“…It begins with an introduction into how culture has been criticially conceptualized in anthropology and ethnography and then illustrates how educational anthropologists have used the concepts of culture and cultural critique to analyze educational processes in diverse sociocultural settings. …”
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Viabilità relazionale: una prospettiva im/mobile delle relazioni nel Gambia transnazionale by Paolo Gaibazzi

“… While anthropologists have long studied how mobility and immobility shape social relationships, this article describes relatedness itself as a form of im/mobility. …”
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Love and anger in Amazonia and in academia: a disciple’s account of Joanna Overing’s oeuvre and teachings by Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin

“…Regarding the latter, I focus especially on her brilliant writing on how contingent associations of Western anthropologists’ analytical terms hinder proper understanding of others’ political philosophies and ways of life; I attend as well to her attention to the centrality of moral understandings in social life, and to her participation in debates about Amazonian engagements with alterity, consanguinity, and conviviality.…”
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Les Wayana de Guyane française sur les traces de leur histoire by Marie Fleury, Tasikale Alupki, Aimawale Opoya, Waiso Aloïké

“…It is based on the oral tradition, but also the texts of the explorers and anthropologists who have travelled the area. It traces the gradual migration of Wayana from Tumuc-Humacs to low-Litani, where they still live today. …”
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Vers une ethnographie paysagère ? by Hugo Gassin

“…At the same time, some anthropologists use tools similar to those used by landscape architects to get a better understanding of the representations or sensitive dimensions of the landscape. …”
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CHURU-KOHO POTTERY OF LAM DONG PROVINCE IN RELATION TO CHAM POTTERY by Van Mon Truong

“…We use the research methods of ethnology and anthropology, including fieldwork, participant observation, interviews, and comparison, combined with the theories of historical particularism of Franz Boas, cultural ecology of Julian Steward, and cultural acculturation of American anthropologists to analyze and explain the similarities and differences among the types of pottery. …”
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La folie de l’arc-en-ciel ou la longue errance de Bwila by Claudie Haxaire

“…It is unfortunate that, like Evans-Pritchard ([1931] 1972), many anthropologists who work on misfortune and illness, and all the more on rituals, did not seek further details of the material or symbolic properties of plants used by healers while following their interlocutors.…”
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