Miejsca kultury w antropologii i etnografii edukacyjnej by Hana Červinková, Tomasz Woźniak

“…It begins with an introduction into how culture has been criticially conceptualized in anthropology and ethnography and then illustrates how educational anthropologists have used the concepts of culture and cultural critique to analyze educational processes in diverse sociocultural settings. …”
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The ambiguous other. Engaging with far right and other uncomfortable subjectivities by Katerina Hatzikidi

“…Among other things, it is argued that the far-right other does not fit current anthropological orthodoxy in terms of ethnographic approach and therefore represents a kind of ambiguous alterity that poses ethical and methodological challenges for anthropologists. The discussion then brings to light some of the tensions and dilemmas inherent in anthropological approaches to uncomfortable alterities. …”
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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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Tuo Dolphins by Rolf Erik Scott, Peter Ian Crawford

“…Moffat Bonunga, visits the Danish anthropologists Jens Pinholt and Peter I. Crawford in Aarhus to help them with their work on the film project. …”
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Love and anger in Amazonia and in academia: a disciple’s account of Joanna Overing’s oeuvre and teachings by Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin

“…Regarding the latter, I focus especially on her brilliant writing on how contingent associations of Western anthropologists’ analytical terms hinder proper understanding of others’ political philosophies and ways of life; I attend as well to her attention to the centrality of moral understandings in social life, and to her participation in debates about Amazonian engagements with alterity, consanguinity, and conviviality.…”
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Les Wayana de Guyane française sur les traces de leur histoire by Marie Fleury, Tasikale Alupki, Aimawale Opoya, Waiso Aloïké

“…It is based on the oral tradition, but also the texts of the explorers and anthropologists who have travelled the area. It traces the gradual migration of Wayana from Tumuc-Humacs to low-Litani, where they still live today. …”
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Vers une ethnographie paysagère ? by Hugo Gassin

“…At the same time, some anthropologists use tools similar to those used by landscape architects to get a better understanding of the representations or sensitive dimensions of the landscape. …”
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CHURU-KOHO POTTERY OF LAM DONG PROVINCE IN RELATION TO CHAM POTTERY by Van Mon Truong

“…We use the research methods of ethnology and anthropology, including fieldwork, participant observation, interviews, and comparison, combined with the theories of historical particularism of Franz Boas, cultural ecology of Julian Steward, and cultural acculturation of American anthropologists to analyze and explain the similarities and differences among the types of pottery. …”
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Critica scientifica, popolarizzazione dell’etnografia ed etica dell’antropologo: sulla “controversia yanomami”, per esempio by Alessandro Mancuso

“…The “controversy over the Yanomami” has affected central issues, both epistemological and ethical and political, for the discipline and practice of anthropology, particularly concerning the ethics of field research; the way to use research data to support certain theoretical hypotheses; the relationships between popularization and politicization of research and, more generally, the responsibility of anthropologists with respect to both the uses of their studies in the public sphere and towards the human subjects with whom they work. …”
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Incertezza, precarietà, capacità di immaginazione del futuro e modernità: un confronto tra Appadurai e De Martino by Alessandro Mancuso

“…In this article, I trace a comparison among different components of both anthropologists’ theoretical apparatus, trying not only to sketch the basic elements of their “general anthropology”, but also their interplay with their interpretation of causes, phenomenology and possible ways out of the contemporary crisis, of cognitive and ethical kind, in the capacity for imagining the future in today globalised world. …”
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From Painting to Picturebook: Bhajju Shyam’s Insider Indigenous Art by Indraprastha University, India

“…Adivasi individuals have borne the brunt of primitivism encouraged by anthropologists, artists, writers, and administrators. …”
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Latest news from the bonobos: Pan paniscus myths and realities by David Beaune

“…They attract much attention from anthropologists who want to better understand our primate origins and more recently from the public because of their remarkable behavior and matriarchal social system. …”
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Bilateral Tuberculum Sextum of Maxillary Permanent First Molar by Mrunali Prashant Deshkar, Yash Naik, Ramakrishna Yeluri, Nilima Thosar, Monika Khubchandani, Meenal Pande

“…The human tooth’s morphology, which includes variations in cusp numbers and patterns, is of tremendous interest to anthropologists, morphologists, and dentists. Cusp 6 is an additional cusp that is very seldom encountered in primary or permanent mandibular molars, especially first molars. …”
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Tracing embodied knowledge in the history of science and medicine: expanding the role of film in historical research by Paul Craddock, Anna Harris

“…Thus, extending from Lucien Taylor’s suggestion that ethnography could be conducted ‘filmically’, we argue that, like anthropologists, historians and museum specialists might also accommodate film as part of a serious research methodology, especially when it comes to respecting the integrity of embodied contributions to the history of science and medicine. …”
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I Can Only Imagine: The Aborted Korean Ministry (1566–1571) of Father Gaspar Vilela, as Recounted by His Letter of 3 November 1571—An Illustration of Jesuit Attitudes on Notions of... by Hayoung Wong

“…The notion of an imagined Korea arguably drew from a creativity implied by the missionary imagination, an idea evidenced in thinking processes of perspective, positive/negative consubstantiality, radical self-assessment, and reduction advocated by anthropologists increasingly willing to engage with theology. …”
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W poszukiwaniu „brakującego ogniwa” by Jacek Tomczyk

“…However, despite the fact that anthropologists wanted to find a “missing link” they rejected those interpretations! …”
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Sistemi di dono-reciprocità nel sistema economico capitalista: utopia o coesistenza feconda? Il caso dell’Economia di Comunione nella libertà by Licia M. Paglione, Maurício C. Serafim

“…Hypothesis of this article is that the EoC, due to his embeddedness in a particular cultural practice, inserts into capitalist system typical  elements from a gift-reciprocity system, similar to the one observed by anthropologists in archaic and traditional societies,  able to create “reciprocity” and “properly social bonds” beside the instrumental and powerfull relationships. …”
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Les rendez-vous manqués de l’ethnologie et de la primatologie de terrain (1960-2010) by Vincent Leblan

“…The ambition of a primate societies ethnography presently called for in ethology is then examined under two different angles:for one part, by tracing the unrecognized descent of the use of the culture concept in primatology to American (USA) cultural anthropologists’ comments on anthropoid psychology during the interwar years, while this invention is often traced exclusively to Japanese primatology in the postwar years. …”
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Human, almost human: how many human species are there? by Thierry Hoquet

“…In addition, the choice of taxonomic divisions and the names adopted is often controversial as they often reflect implicit beliefs among anthropologists, for example that humans are the apex of primate evolution. …”
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The role of social networks in production of the migrant’s identity by M. A. Panarina, I. A. Lavrov

“…The experience of studying this problem by foreign sociologists and  anthropologists of different years has been considered in the article. …”
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