« Envoyer la maladie ». Entre sorcellerie et politique, l’évolution des conceptions du sida dans les zones rurales d’Haïti [1990] by Paul Farmer

“…This case contributes to the anthropological study of cultural meaning in formation and transformation.…”
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Intégrer le corps en deuil fragmenté by Carine Plancke

“…Anthropological studies on lamentations have stressed the obligatory side of this chanted practice and its social consolidation role. …”
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Expulsionscapes. Logics of Expulsion and Economies of Eviction in Milan (Italy) by Giacomo Pozzi

“…Drawing on ethnographic research carried out between October 2015 and December 2016, in this article I employ an anthropological gaze to show the socially and analytically central role evictions play in the contemporary world as a mechanism for producing social exclusion, inequality and difference. …”
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The Value of Gambling and its Research by Pauliina Raento

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From the Persistence of Ableism to its Deconstruction in the Evolution of Collective and Individual Narratives around Prosthetic Amputee Bodies by Valentine Gourinat, Paul-Fabien Groud

“…Based on these narratives, this paper proposes a socio-anthropological analysis of their historical development and their impact on representations of disability, insofar as they are a tool for transmitting social and collective values. …”
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Ne plus avoir le temps, ou le risque de l’errance temporelle : considérations anthropologiques et éducatives by Géraldine Potier, Renaud Hétier

“…The modern individual is described as unbound, by the economic hold, by the distancing of the relation to the other, of the body itself and of the sensibility, on a background of anthropological tendency. This untying could be a freedom, but it deprives him above all of containment and support, and delivers him to a "raw" time, which passes without him, without him managing to inhabit it. …”
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La fabrique des reliques. Manipulations et production de sacré dans la clôture by Francesca Sbardella

“…On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork which was conducted among some Carmelite and Augustinian monastic groups (in France and in Italy), the aim of the present paper is to investigate the nature of relic-objects from an anthropological perspective. These are probably one of the most significant reified examples of the so-called ‘sacred’ as tangible evidence in contemporary western societies. …”
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La vita è altrove? L'autunno mediterraneo dei pensionati italiani in Tunisia, tra conflitti e crisi. by Laura Faranda

“…With the first data collected, we will attempt to outline some provisional answers and to bring out the anthropological sense of the phenomenon. …”
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Caribbean Insular Mobilities by Carlo Cubero

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Le renouveau de l’approche documentaire, exemple d’une archive collaborative : Susan Meiselas, Kurdistan (1991-2009) by Clara Bouveresse

“…For twenty years, her project participated in the debates on the role and authority of the photographic document, addressing the critique of photojournalism, reflections on archives and the material turn in anthropological theory. Susan Meiselas transforms each photograph into an object, conveying stories and encounters. …”
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Dispositif d’accompagnement en réalité virtuelle pour adultes autistes dyscommunicants by Cécile Lacôte-Coquereau

“…Indeed, if the literature shows that digital tools can promote the cognitive availability and stimulate the engagement of autistic individuals, how can we allow their effective participation and support their learning via virtual reality capsules? The results, in anthropological evidence, fall within the framework of activity theory.…”
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La topographie légendaire des itinéraires de la navette by Xavière Lanéelle

“…The commuter, the train and the route have been the object of a myth to serve a commercial policy as well as a development of the served cities.But the legend settled down only because it is one of the anthropological foundations and because the myth allows to combine incompatible elements, here the combination of the requirements of contemporary modernity and a more traditional life of provincial rooting.One of the aspects of the myth is that the TGV is a sterile environment and the countryside it goes through, a "black hole". …”
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Pletivo života: Teologicko-misiologické implikácie jednej metafory by Pavol Bargár

“…One of the major insights drawn from anthropological research is the acknowledgment that every human being is in each stage of their life embedded in a complex and multi-layered structure of relationships with other people as well as the world around them. …”
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The role of local populations in tourism development projects: the case of Loango National Park in Gabon by Ariane Payen

“…This paper will show how community tourism projects in protected areas can often fail due to both a lack of communication between the different actors and the insufficient integration of the relevant socio-anthropological issues. In the same way as a World Heritage site, the case of Loango National Park in Gabon clearly demonstrates that the original objectives of involvement by and empowerment of the local population are still far from being met. …”
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How and why to study mountains: topics and types of research between limits and opportunities by Laura Bonato

“… Field practice in a neighbouring ethnographic context – both culturally and geographically –, of which the researcher is a part, entails specific difficulties, epistemological and practical problems quite different from those faced by classical anthropology. Based on the experience gained in three different projects involving the western Alpine arc over the last decade, we intend to highlight the fact that in some contexts it is appropriate to prefer ‘peripheral’ anthropological research, less localised and based on shorter stays. …”
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Oltre l’intenzione. Etnografia urbana, lavoro sul campo e progettazione territoriale by Paolo Grassi

“…The text as a whole will illustrate a role as an anthropologist capable of bringing into play different skills and acting on several levels, beyond the intentionality of the anthropological gesture.…”
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Witchcraft as metaculture in the Bolivian Chaco by Kathleen Lowrey

“…The argument of the article is that the leadership of this community attempted an anthropological treatment of a problem of witchcraft by addressing it at a « meta-cultural » level having to do with community dynamics. …”
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Ribeirinho Food Regimes, Socioeconomic Inclusion and Unsustainable Development of the Amazonian Floodplain by Tatiana Schor, Gustavo S. Azenha

“…We argue that a political ecology of food regimes in the Brazilian Amazonian floodplain—drawing on anthropological and geographic approaches and insights—provides a privileged vantage from which to illuminate the contradictions of current development trajectories and the socioenvironmental disparities they engender, potentially contributing to the articulation of more effective sustainable development and social inclusion policies.…”
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Der theologische Antichiliasmus by Joachim Wedel

“…The arguments against chiliasm taken from these theologians are of anthropological nature (the implementation of the Kingdom of God exceeds the human capacity) and indicate the importance of structures (state, church) in ensuring stability and durability on earth. …”
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Cohousing and new dwelling cultures in post-seismic urban planning by Mauro Francini, Rosario Chimirri, Annunziata Palermo, Maria Francesca Viapiana

“…The present contribution, also on the basis of historical-anthropological studies, concerning past community life and current reality, between fragility of the landscape and incongruity of human actions, indicates a return to cohousing as one of the most interesting criteria for the redefinition of urban interventions, opening towards scientific scenarios based on interdisciplinarity, as well as creating an experimental laboratory for planning.…”
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