« Voir les voix » : les Juifs d’Égypte, d’une rive l’autre by Michèle Baussant

“…Based on a "retroactive ethnography," it relies on work with memory and the memory of the Jews of Egypt encountered both as actors and narrators and is interested in the crossed constructions of the presence and absence of Jews and Egyptians. …”
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Lengua y artefactos en la etnografía wichí de Alfred Métraux by Rodrigo Montani

“…A mere gaze at his « Ethnography of the Chaco » in the Handbook of South American Indians or the Wichí collections he provided for different museums, show that Wichí material culture played a crucial role in Métraux’s research. …”
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« Danser la relation » by Marie Mazzella di Bosco

“…In them, dance is a tool for constructing special relational modes: through the body in motion, subtle interpersonal negotiations are at play, underlying broader relational issues that prove to be fundamental if one pays attention to the accounts and actions of the dancers. In a brief ethnography of the gestures, postures and sensory perceptions at work, this article analyses how danced interactions are induced, begun, developed and interpreted, thus shedding light on the nature of these relational modes proper to dance.…”
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Conceptualisation des espaces sahéliens chez les auteurs arabes du Moyen Âge by Jean-Charles Ducène

“…The guidelines of the medieval geography impose a mathematical definition to the space and determine an ethnography for these peoples, while natural conditions seemed to legitimate this vision, that established a huge differentiation between the populations located North and South of the Sahara. …”
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When Citizen Mobilisations Transform the Andean Foothills: the Case of the Group for the Defence of the Precordillera by Consuelo Biskupovic, Caroline Stamm

“…Using the example of the municipality of La Florida, this article focuses on how conflict over the Andean foothills goes beyond simple land-use issues to create a new relationship with the “mountain” and new forms of land management. Combining ethnography and geography, this text highlights the role of the Andean foothills’ peculiar characteristics in the collective demands of citizens committed to their protection and conservation. …”
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Œil pour œil : l’art contre la technopolice by Jean-Paul Fourmentraux

“…At the frontier of digital arts, philosophy of techniques and the resolutely critical “surveillance studies”, this article proposes the ethnography of a controversy, aesthetic and political, which occurred on the occasion of the exhibition of Capture, a project of the Italian artist Paolo Cirio (2020), and of the European petition it inaugurated online, aiming at banning facial recognition in the public space. …”
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La culture de la patate douce et du maïs chez les Krahô by Ana Gabriela Morim de Lima

“…In the context of recent ethnological debate, Krahô’s ethnography offers original elements for thinking about other forms of human-plant interaction that, going beyond human exceptionalism, reveal a general effort to produce kinship ties with cultivated plants.…”
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« C’est ça le futur des soirées ? » Les musiques électroniques de danse à l’épreuve du livestream et de la COVID-19 by Frédéric Trottier-Pistien

“…EDM market grabbed and articulated it to make “their” new place for music. Through the ethnography of a home-alone party, I will describe an online music festival, using interfaces to cross Detroit and reach the world within Twitch. …”
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La réflexivité : exercice pédagogique et outil d’accompagnement aux cycles supérieurs by Andréanne Gélinas Proulx, Anne-Sophie Ruest-Paquette, Lilia A. Simões Forte, Megan Cotnam-Kappel, Caroline Fallu, Lucie Bartosova

“…The results presented in this paper stem from an exploratory qualitative co-constructed auto-ethnography on reflexivity in graduate students. Reflexivity promotes analytical and critical self-assessment of a person's position, role and professional practices. …”
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Tutti i colori del verde. Il ruolo del verde urbano nei processi di cittadinanza nella città di Bolzano by Roberta Raffaetà

“…Through an ethnographic approach (part of a interdisciplinary project), the article illustrates how the way in which people in Bolzano make sense and use the urban green is the result of historically stratified influences that are entangled to contemporary reinterpretations made on the basis of actual socio-political challenges. The ethnography suggests that plants and parks are not simply a background to human affairs, rather, these participate to human undertakings with their specific spacetime. …”
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School Shows Staged in Public Primary Schools in Turkey: Tools in the Making of Future Citizens by Ayşe Yılmaz

“…Based on a qualitative study conducted in Istanbul, including an ethnography in a costume shop, in-depth interviews with public primary school teachers and observations of shows, this article focuses on the ways through which school shows become tools for transmitting nationalist values to children in the absence of an official curriculum. …”
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La trajectoire des savoirs citoyens : le cas du développement d’un projet minier québécois by Justine Lalande

“…Using an exploratory approach inspired by organizational ethnography, we follow the trajectory of citizen knowledge, that is its formation, recognition and finally, its integration into decisions. …”
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Making a Home in the Taiga: Movements, Paths and Signs among Orochen-Evenki Hunters and Herders of Zabaikal Krai (South East Siberia) by Donatas Brandišauskas

“…Although under the Russian Tsars Orochen-Evenki hunters and herders were referred to negatively as wanderers; today my ethnography demonstrates how movements of animals and humans are crucial for the success of their subsistence, place making and worldview. …”
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Que recouvre la fonction d’enseignant référent ? Cartographie d’une activité by Matthieu Laville

“…The article will then outline the steps that marked the gradual transition from an exploratory ethnography to the building of a nationwide questionnaire. …”
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Using Qualitative Research in Planning and Evaluating Extension Programs by Lisa A. Guion, Lamont Flowers, David C. Diehl, Debra McDonald

“…Qualitative research is a useful tool for understanding extension programs and can complement quantitative methods, because qualitative information, such as interviews, focus groups, ethnography, observation, and case studies, can help faculty gain a rich understanding of the issues they are addressing. …”
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Shifting Fatherhood and Gender: Negotiating Power and Sexuality in Yoruba by Oluwasola Daniels

“…This research uses inter-disciplinary approach like ethnography to have full grasp of the marital dynamisms. …”
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Using Qualitative Research in Planning and Evaluating Extension Programs by Lisa A. Guion, Lamont Flowers, David C. Diehl, Debra McDonald

“…Qualitative research is a useful tool for understanding extension programs and can complement quantitative methods, because qualitative information, such as interviews, focus groups, ethnography, observation, and case studies, can help faculty gain a rich understanding of the issues they are addressing. …”
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Devenir reine kakataibo. Performance, séduction et genre en Amazonie péruvienne by Magda Helena Dziubinska

“…Through an ethnography of beauty contests organized in a Kakataibo Native Community (Peruvian Amazon), this article examines on the one hand the young Kakataibo women’s experience of femininity, and on the other hand, the relations of Kakataibo with the non-indigenous population of the region. …”
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"Seeing the voices": Egyptian Jews from one shore to another by Michèle Baussant

“…Based on a "retroactive ethnography," it relies on work with memory and the memory of the Jews of Egypt encountered both as actors and narrators and is interested in the crossed constructions of the presence and absence of Jews and Egyptians. …”
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La Mesure de l’humain. Objets, pratiques et logiques numériques pour le réaménagement d’une place parisienne. by Ornella Zaza

“…Based on a three-year ethnography of a local authority, this article aims to question the emergence of new digital practices in urban planning processes. …”
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