Robert Adams in Transatlantic Review: Archiving the Barbary Captive and Traveller by Stephen F. Wolfe

“…The text has often been mentioned in studies of the Barbary Coast narrative but not as a document of a transatlantic discourse about African exploration, ethnography, and colonial development. The creation of Adams text and the creation of the Adams archive will be the subject of the paper as seen by contemporary sources on both sides of the Atlantic. …”
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Mobility and Chain Value in a Nahua Town in the Northern Highlands of Puebla, Mexico by Eugenia D'Aubeterre Buznego, Leticia Rivermar Pérez

“…The backdrop of this analysis is a classical ethnography of a Nahua speaking town in the Northern Highlands of Puebla, in the center of Mexico, which took place in the 1960s. …”
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Os discursos do etnólogo, do filósofo e do ficcionistana estrutura do romance Nove noites by Cid Ottoni Bylaardt

“…This paper intends to establish a dialogue between two texts: “Structure, Signand Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences”, by Jacques Derrida, andNovenoites[Nine nights] by the Brazilian contemporary novelist Bernardo Carvalho.Derrida‟s text seems tohold the origins of the deconstructionist thinking of thephilosopher, and begins with an aporia pointed by Lévi-Strauss in the binarypair nature-culture to discuss the centered model of the occidental thinking.This scandal, thus, is associated to the activity of the ethnologist and has itsroots in ethnography. This text seeks, therefore, to reflect upon how the fictionseizes the discourse of human sciences in order to put it in question, in amovement similar to Derrida‟s thinking in the permanent deconstructionism‟sinterpellation to the scientific discourse. …”
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Introduction. Normes, silences, pouvoirs : pour une anthropologie critique des “violences fondées sur le genre” by Giovanna Cavatorta

“…Thus, this article explores the advantages of questioning, through the ethnography, the processes that qualify as intolerable some practices about gender and the ways in which the speaking out is allowed and hierarchized by norms and institutions.…”
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Christian Democracy at the Local Level in the Post-dictatorship Era: Political Practices and Clientele Relations in a Chilean Comuna by David Luján Verón, Aníbal Pérez Contreras

“…Through a diachronic analysis including in-depth interviews and political ethnography we analyse how concepts and practices around the exercise of politics are understood by these politicians and analyse ow they interact with the local population. …”
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Everyday agency and centred marginality: being “youth” in the oil-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria by Akin Iwilade

“…This paper uses an ethnography of youth gangs in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria to explore the distinctions between being young and being youth and to argue that, in order to understand the complexities of a category whose politics have profoundly influenced the history of contemporary social transitions in many African societies, one must analytically disaggregate its various components and highlight the interesting ways in which various contexts can shape it. …”
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Existential vulnerability and transition: Struggling with involuntary childlessness on Instagram by Stenström Kristina, Pargman Teresa Cerratto

“…Through the conceptual lens of digital existence, where the digital and online are regarded as constitutive of existential transition, we draw on ten interviews and an online ethnography to explore some of the struggles that involuntarily childless women experience with and through technology. …”
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Canaux anciens et puits récents : usages de l’eau d’irrigation, identité et territoire dans le Haouz (Maroc) by Violaine Héritier-Salama

“…By associating an ethnography of contemporary practices and a diachronic approach, this article tries to show the co-construction over time of an irrigated soil and of a social group, in a locality in Marrakesh’s plain (Haouz). …”
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Contesting digital leisure time: Parental struggles in relation to young children's play with tablets at home by Lundtofte Thomas Enemark

“…In this article, I analyse data from a video observation–based media ethnography of seven Danish children (aged 4–6) and engage with the research tradition attributed to parental mediation. …”
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Oltre l’intenzione. Note sulla finalità e sull’uso del gesto etnografico by Ferdinando Fava

“…These different uses of ethnography allow to question again the distinction between information and useful information that defines, in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, the difference between basic anthropological research and applied research. …”
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Family, failure and fatigue in the field by Henni Alava, Megan Robertson

“…The text was originally read as a presentation in a webinar on 'Patchwork Ethnography'. In resisting the coerciveness of dominant academic rhetorical codes, the paper calls for researchers to be more transparent about the devastating effects of patriarchy and neoliberal academia on their personal and professional lives. …”
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Ramas, familles, réseaux. Les supports sociaux de la diffusion de la santería cubaine (Cuba-Mexique) by Kali Argyriadis

“…In order to grasp the full range of our topic, an analysis in terms of networks seems, at first glance, the best option. Detailed ethnography of the relationships between social actors reveals a complex ramification of individuals and groups connected by one or several intermediary links. …”
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“Blackboxing Whiteness” by Jaqui Hiltermann

“…These arrangements of space and place were investigated through a digital ethnography and critical discourse analysis of domestically focused posts by 50 Facebook users. …”
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Les calebasses nka’a kügha : du contexte d’origine à la mise en exposition en Europe by Ninon Arbez-Gindre

“…This article examines a set of four Nka’a kügha calabashes from the Bamum Kingdom (Cameroon), collected by the Société des Missions évangéliques de Paris (SMEP) in the 1920s and 1930s and now in the British Museum, and the museums of ethnography in Neuchâtel and Geneva. Their circulation, reuse in different social universes, reconnection with the context of origin and restitution have placed the calabashes at the centre of contemporary museum issues, starting with the exhibition of works made using human remains.…”
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Chains of dispossession and communities in struggle: the illegal opiate market in Guerrero (Mexico) by Inés Giménez-Delgado

“…Through the lens of ethnography and mixed methodology, it is examined the dynamics and changing characteristics of the commodity chain of heroin, from field production to consumption and money laundering, and it is analysed the different logics of dispossession involved, as well as the rationales of normative discourses in producing communities and their survival strategies. …”
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Aristotelian scholia in the Serbian Church-Slavonic translation of Gregory Palamas’ “Apodictic treatises on the procession of the holy spirit” by Knežević Mikonja

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Corps embryoïdes : biologie moléculaire et cellules vivantes by Noémie Merleau-Ponty

“…The ethnography of a basic research technique in developmental biology—the production of embryoid bodies (EB)—shows how cells are the work materials for a scientific approach that is based on a molecular conception of life, and connects different species. …”
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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

“…Building both on the study of classical ethnography relating to different groups of the “Inuit area,” and on fieldwork carried out in Inuit communities of the eastern Canadian Arctic in the 2000s-2010s, this paper examines the forms of the ritual or symbolic efficacy ascribed to string figure-making in pre-Christian Inuit societies. …”
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Mesolithic of the Eastern Fennoscandia: chronology and periodization by Dmitriy V. Gerasimov

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Beyond Representations by Tobias Lindström, Erik Solfeldt

“… This special section of Current Swedish Archaeology explores the relationship between figuration, animacy, and abstract imagery within the archaeology and ethnography of figurines. Departing from traditional representationalist approaches that have long been the modi operandi in the study of figurative imagery, as well as in the archaeology of figurines, the papers adopt ontological, new animist, and new materialist perspectives, viewing figurines not as mere depictions but as active entities affecting their makers, users and environments. …”
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