Vernacularization: A Cross-Disciplinary Review by Tuuli Tahko, Jani Marjanen

“…Vernacularization is a term that many linguists, historians, anthropologists, and others have adopted to refer to changing linguistic, social, and cultural hierarchies within communities. …”
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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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Reflexiones sobre una Antropología «Nativa» by Lucila Gayané Tossounian

“…Anthropology allows exploring the native factor, which appears in this kind of studies, and takes into account the ways in which the so-called “native” anthropologists are conceived. The subjects of study are not the only ones to be sumitted to multiple identifications; we, as researchers and social actors, can belong to the communities we study in different ways, and be “native” in different moments and places. …”
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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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Ritual Continuity and “Failed Rituals” in a Winter Masquerade in the Italian Alps by Lia Zola

“…In the Italian alpine chain some of them have been brought to a new life two decades ago after a long period of decline; since then, alpine winter masquerades have been the focus of a great interest by cultural anthropologists, theatre performers and other intellectuals. …”
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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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Musiques et stratégies de résistance culturelle des communautés afro-descendantes au Brésil : l’exemple du tambor de crioula et du tambor de mina, XIXe-XXIe siècle  by Marie Cousin

“…The tambor de mina, formerly described as "immoral" and "barbaric and fetishist" worship, has become that of "authentic Africanity". Anthropologists, touristic and cultural policies, and especially the fight of the associations specialized in the defense of the rights of descendants of the Maroons, were the actors of this revival, which also significates changes.…”
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Psychological Anthropology: A Critical Review of the Book Culture and Identity by Asghar Izadi-Jeiran

“…The relationship between individual and culture as the main subject in psychological anthropology had been engaged anthropologists from the early days of the discipline. …”
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Crossing the Caucasus hunting for plants: the collection itinerary of the botanists Stéphen Sommier and Émile Levier in the summer of 1890 by Daniele Viciani, Lorella Dell’Olmo, Chiara Nepi, Lorenzo Lastrucci

“…Stéphen Sommier and Émile Levier were eminent botanists and plant collectors (but also ethno-anthropologists, geographers and photographers), best known for their scientific travels in Italy and abroad. …”
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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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