Two anthropologists recall Dominique Buchillet by Janet Chernela, Jaime Diakara Dessano Dihpotiro

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Memórias manchadas e ruínas memoriais em A mancha e “O condomínio”, de Luis Fernando Veríssimo by Leila Lehnen

“…This article proposes that what it calls “schizophrenic memory sites” – places that are constructed as palimpsests of various (and, at times, contradictory) versions of the past – are connected with what anthropologist James Hoslton (2008) denominates “differentiated citizenship”. …”
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Alfred Métraux y la utopía del Gran Chaco by Federico Bossert

“…In light of this biographical context, the article discusses the unrelenting place of the Chaco as an object of ethnological interest for Metraux from his first field trip (1922) to his final ethnographic project (1963), and explores the impact of his relationship with Swedish anthropologist Erland Nordenskiöld.…”
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Gender, race, and life writing in the ethnography of Ruth Landes in Bahia by Sally Cole

“…American anthropologist Ruth Landes (1908-1991) conducted ethnographic fieldwork in candomblé centers, terreiros, in Salvador, Bahia, in 1938-1939. …”
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Language documentation and revitalization among the Siona of the Putumayo, Colombia: the potential of digitization for the social life of ethnographic material by Esther Jean Langdon

“…Finally, the paper examines the differences between indigenous expectations of audio recordings and those of the anthropologist, indicating that digitization fixes, decontextualizes and recontextualizes oral literature within the current political context in which indigenous peoples seek to identify cultural patrimony in defense of their rights.…”
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The Pala’wan Highlanders and the World they live in: “A Weaving of Golden Threads” by Nicole Revel

“…Nicole Revel, Emeritus senior researcher at CNRS, Doctor Honoris causa (Humanities) Ateneo de Manila University, Linguist and anthropologist, works since 1970 in the Philippines. In collaboration with the Palawan Highlanders she described their language (1979) and their knowledge about Nature (1990-92). …”
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Berta Gleizer Ribeiro e as artes das vidas amazônicas by Lúcia Hussak van Velthem, Bianca Luiza Freire de Castro França, José Ribamar Bessa Freire

“…The reflections that follow focus on the approaches to which the anthropologist paid special attention, such as those connected to the study of everyday objects, to Amazonian aesthetics, to the mythology of the indigenous peoples of the upper Rio Negro, and also to ecological issues. …”
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Islamic Feminism in Morocco: A Generational Comparison Between Fatima Mernissi and Asma Lamrabet by Francesca Neri

“…Using a theoretical framework such as the one proposed by anthropologist Talal Asad regarding Islam’s discursive tradition, it can instead be seen that, rather than a true generational change, what is occurring is a normal evolution of the primary theory attributable to Mernissi. …”
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Sociologia, cultura e arte: um debate entre espaços e tempos by Eliska Altmann

“…Based on the volumes of the Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Velho - Sociologia da arte; Sociologia da arte II; and Arte e sociedade - ensaios de sociologia da arte (1966, 1967 and 1977) - in light of the book A sociologia da arte (2008), of the French sociologist Nathalie Heinich, the article highlights Brazilian publications comprising thinkers of sociology of art and culture through space-time dialogues. …”
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Nouvelles proxémies en Europe ? by Pierre Donadieu

“…It shows that the proxemics principles of spatial distance, highlighted by the American anthropologist E. T. Hall fifty years ago to address the urban space crisis, could be relayed by the idea of landscape geomediation. …”
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O multiverso predatório dos deuses canibais: o legado de Joanna Overing by Els Lagrou, Luisa Elvira Belaunde

“…In this sense, we propose a brief intellectual biography of an American anthropologist born in 1938 who did fieldwork in Venezuela, taught in the United States, England and Scotland, weaved interdisciplinary dialogues between philosophy, linguistics and anthropology and stimulated exchanges between ethnology carried out in England, France, Scandinavia and Brazil. …”
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The Metaphysics of Justice: Ayelala’s Rise in Benin and Other Parts of Edo State by Benson Ohihon Igboin

“…Building on the arguments of the British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, who suggests that witchcraft explains unfortunate events, this article argues that the experience of certain fortunate events, such as the punishment of evildoers or the revelation of metaphysical causes of death, confirm the existence of Ayelala as a counter-force to witchcraft and other forms of metaphysical evil. …”
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L’héritage d’Alfred Kiyana et l’énigme des paquets cérémoniels meskwaki by Emmanuel Désveaux

“…At the beginning of the 20th century, Alfred Kiyana entrusted the anthropologist Michelson with the liturgical text related to a so-called sacred bundle. …”
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L’ixeutique, un exemple de gestion empirique de la biodiversité végétale par la communauté traditionnelle Tsaaya du massif du Chaillu, Congo by Victor Kimpouni, Jean Pierre Makita-Madzou, Ernest Apani, Marcel Motom

“…The traditional societies and especially their knowledge interested more than one anthropologist, in particular those of the first ages. …”
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Wood identification in objects of Bambuti people from the Congo in the collection of the Slovene ethnographic museum by Katarina Čufar, Hans Beeckman, Marko Frelih, Luka Krže, Wannes Hubau, Maks Merela

“…The items were collected by the anthropologist Paul Joachim Schebesta, possibly during his expeditions around 1930. …”
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Conservation communautaire et changement de statuts du bonobo dans le Territoire de Bolobo by Victor Narat, Flora Pennec, Sabrina Krief, Jean Christophe Bokika Ngawolo, Richard Dumez

“…In the future, a study by a conservation anthropologist would allow to complete this first analysis and permit a better understanding of the places of conflicts and of collaborations as regards this conservation project.…”
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Witchcraft as metaculture in the Bolivian Chaco by Kathleen Lowrey

“…However, the Isoseño leadership found – as have anthropologists – that shifting the frame of reference of a problem is not the same as resolving it, and that conflict can be as easily transmuted as can frames of analysis. …”
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Diventare “mappe vive” by Glauco Barboglio

“…Finally, it explores the role of anthropologists in local contexts, stressing the impact of anthropological methods in community engagement, especially where anthropology is not well known. …”
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Alcida Rita Ramos. Una vida de compromiso con la etnografía y con los pueblos indígenas by Luis Cayón

“…It covers the various phases of her career and reveals some of her recent thoughts on the future of ethnography and anthropology, which stress the importance of the new surge of indigenous anthropologists in Brazilian universities.…”
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Catastrophes and Weddings. Chachi Ritual as Metamorphosis by Istvan Praet

“…A question that has intrigued anthropologists for a long time is why catastrophic anxieties are so omnipresent among Amerindian peoples. …”
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