Antropología y radicalidad literaria. Zola, Warburg, Artaud, Debord, Pasolini by José Antonio González Alcantud

“…All of them, without being professional anthropologists, had a relationship with the discipline, especially in their approach to social evil. …”
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Protezione dei dati personali, etica, proprietà intellettuale e antropologia culturale e sociale in Italia by Francesca Declich

“…The text analyzes the issue from various angles, highlighting issues anthropologists may have to face defending the epistemology of discovery of their research.…”
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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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Portrait du philosophe en forme de singe by Dominique Lestel

“…Why do primatologists and anthropologists belong to different disciplines? This question convokes fundamental epistemic characteristics of both disciplines. …”
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Les photographies de l’ethnologie : objets exposés, objets projetés by Anaïs Mauuarin, Carine Peltier-Caroff

“…Observing and analysing these practices helps to understand the visual context anthropologists had to deal with, to define the potential uses of their images, as well as the cultural and visual systems of reference to which they adapted.…”
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Délimitations et défenses du territoire : les conditions d’émergence de la linguistique nord-américaine au début du XXe siècle by Henri Le Prieult

“…From the first works of anthropologists who had to deal with the "Amerindian imperative," to the development of a "ho-me-grown structuralism" (Harris 1993), there seems to have been an enduring link between the emergence of a specifically American linguistic school of thought and the very conditions the land of American offered to the many amateurs and scientists who considered and analysed the facts of language from the XVIth century onwards. …”
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Le docufiction l’Odyssée de l’espèce. Analyse didactique et pistes d’exploitation en classe de terminale S by Yannick Rech, Eric Triquet

“…Although renowned anthropologists have given their guarantee to scenarios, these general public films show evidence for a certain distancing to scientific data. …”
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Obvious Achievements and Light Bites (review of the 4th volume of "Archaeology of the Volga-Urals") by Nikolai A. Krenke

“…The chapters are compiled by a team of 32 authors, including archaeologists, anthropologists, and a linguist. For the first time, it contains in a unified structure the scientific papers on the archaeological cultures of the region and information on individual reference sites. …”
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Rileggendo “Folklore e profitto”. Patrimoni immateriali, mercati, turismo by Letizia Bindi

“…What emerges is a twist of cultural heritage toward consumerism that imposes to anthropologists and cultural heritage scholars new challenges and questions and a late-modern rethinking of critical categories as commodification, alienation and fetishization. …”
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Des archives pour l’anthropologie : futurs possibles et passés contingents by David Zeitlyn

“…Archives run by the groups traditionally studied by anthropologists provide models of radical archives that are very different from those conceived of by traditional archivists.…”
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Borders of Wealth and Poverty: Ideas Stimulated by Comparing the Mediterranean and U.S.-Mexico Borders by Josiah Heyman, Natalia Ribas-Mateos

“…How can anthropologists and sociologists share ideas and knowledge on the Mediterranean and U.S.…”
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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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Introduction by Chiara Brambilla

“…Far from being marginal in anthropological knowledge, borders should be regarded as a prominent “laboratory” where anthropologists can search and find appropriate analytical tools to respond to major challenges of the contemporary world. …”
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Qui copier ? Les stratégies d’apprentissage social chez les animaux by Charlotte Canteloup

“…The existence of culture in nonhuman animals has been a particularly hot debate, historically opposing anthropologists to biologists. According to the latter, the mind, society and culture of humans are rooted in cognitively simple mechanisms that we share with other animals. …”
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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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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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Entendre les mouches voler by Sarah Benabou, David Picherit

“…Based on an experimental interdisciplinary project bringing together anthropologists, ecologists, sound artists and museologists, it examines the ways in which attention to sound makes it possible to understand the complex dynamics of the Valparai plateau (South India), where a plantation regime is entangled with a forest conservation regime. …”
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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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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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Un roman néo-gothique : The Three Impostors d’Arthur Machen (1895) by Claire Wrobel

“…The contemporary threats of New Women and democratization are casually brushed aside, but Machen fully draws upon the anxiety generated by the possibility of reversion opened up by the theory of evolution and explored by anthropologists and criminologists. Moreover, he breaks the original systematic association of « Gothic » and « barbaric » with « medieval » in order to include the refined cruelties and mysteries of pagan rites in his abject visions. …”
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