Culture and the Judiciary: The Anthropologist Judge by Rodrigo Céspedes

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Two anthropologists recall Dominique Buchillet by Janet Chernela, Jaime Diakara Dessano Dihpotiro

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Carton Coon’s Riddle: Anthropologist, Archaeologist, or CIA Agent? (Critical Review of Carlton Stevens Coon’s Methodology and Publications in the Iranian Paleolithic Archaeology) by Hamed Vahdati Nasab

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Professioni non organizzate. Analizzando una legge in merito al ruolo degli antropologi by Fiorella Giacalone

Subjects: “…professional anthropologist…”
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«What the hell am I doin’ here? I don’t belong here!»..L’antropologa nei contesti di asilo/accoglienza tra marginalità, fraintendimenti, negoziazioni e non-intenzionalità. Riflessi... by Silvia Pitzalis

“…Through the exposition of a professional experience within the asylum/reception system, I will show how, although significant, this openness can lead to real epistemological, deontological, and methodological pitfalls that go beyond the anthropologist's intentions.…”
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Le passé indien et l’avenir de la nation au Mexique :Retour sur l’anthropologie critique de Guillermo Bonfil Batalla by Miriam Hernández Reyna

“…At the end of the 20th century, a trend known as “critical anthropology” emerged from which a re-reading of this past was initiated. The anthropologist Guillermo Bonfil Batalla belonged to this generation marked by a Marxist revival and a critique of the notions of civilization and progress. …”
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Channels of Iranian pastoral nomads on the YouTube network: Video narratives of the life of the Lori (Lur) Bakhtiari tribal people and ethnic group by Gorunović Gordana

“…The main question underlying the research is what an anthropologist as a viewer and an impartial bystander can learn from these amateur videoformats, which can be included in the genre of domestic folk films about the daily life and customs of the pastoral, partially sedentarized, (semi)nomads in southwest Iran. …”
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Prendersi ‘gentilmente’ sul serio. Un’intima curvatura riflessiva sull’etnografia nella lotta e la co-costruzione di intenzionalità sul campo by Sabina Tosi Cambini

“…This contribution applies a reflexive approach to my diversified fieldworks carried out in some contexts that policies, social sciences and civil society call ‘marginal’ – albeit moved by very different perspectives and intentions –, bringing out the demand of people towards the anthropologist to be able to develop a ‘gentle’ relationship, capable of ‘culturally’ taking into account their biographies and their social ‘position’ without trapping them either in the first or in the second; and, therefore, investigating the meso and macro structural aspects of this positioning as well as their search for a 'good life'. …”
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Cartografie implicite e mappe di comunità: per una diversa classificazione dei Beni culturali by Vincenzo Esposito

“…This article is about: Cultural anthropology, issues of power and definition of Cultural Heritage; religious rituals as spontaneous maps, implicit to local cultural contexts; «Parish maps» as local tool to survey and describe the cultural heritage of the area; role of the anthropologist and work with informants. …”
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Intronização de um "Trump tropical" by Marion Aubrée

“…Based on the author's experience as an anthropologist working in Brazil for more than forty years on the various religious currents that inform the beliefs and opinions of the inhabitants of this country, the text highlights the successive transformations of mentalities. religious and imaginary, as well as political conjunctions explaining this unexpected result…”
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Memórias manchadas e ruínas memoriais em A mancha e “O condomínio”, de Luis Fernando Veríssimo by Leila Lehnen

“…This article proposes that what it calls “schizophrenic memory sites” – places that are constructed as palimpsests of various (and, at times, contradictory) versions of the past – are connected with what anthropologist James Hoslton (2008) denominates “differentiated citizenship”. …”
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Alfred Métraux y la utopía del Gran Chaco by Federico Bossert

“…In light of this biographical context, the article discusses the unrelenting place of the Chaco as an object of ethnological interest for Metraux from his first field trip (1922) to his final ethnographic project (1963), and explores the impact of his relationship with Swedish anthropologist Erland Nordenskiöld.…”
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Le zbeul by Sarah Carton de Grammont

“…When one is an ethnographer-anthropologist, one cannot write ethnographies on everything, everywhere, all the time. …”
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Paul Farmer : élaboration d’une représentation collective du sida en zone rurale d’Haïti au prisme du contexte historique et géopolitique haïtien (1983-1990) by Dolorès Pourette

“…Paul Farmer, a physician and medical anthropologist, highlights how local experiences and interpretations of AIDS, the subjective experience of the disease, and the discursive practices around AIDS are are profoundly affected by the sociohistorical and geopolitical context of the region, especially relations with the Hatian capital and the United States. …”
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L’Heure du Gospel. Liminalité, identité et religion dans un bar gay by Edward R. Gray, Scott Thumma

“…Mobilizing the concept of « liminality » inherited from anthropologist Victor Turner, the authors analyze this as a moment of ritual community creation, on the border of the religious and the profane, and the border between Christian socializations and gay sociabilities.…”
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Eco-anthropologie et primatologie pour la conservation de la biodiversité : un projet collaboratif dans le Parc National de Moukalaba-Doudou, Gabon by Naoki Matsuura, Yuji Takenoshita, Juichi Yamagiwa

“…On the other hand, the ecological anthropologist illustrates relationships between local people and wildlife and deals with the local perception of animals. …”
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Le rappeur et les « petites grand-mères » by Teresa Fradique

“…Propositions from certain texts and concepts of Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Velho serve as a foundation for exploring the idea of a cosmopolitanism detached from its binary opposition with provincialism. …”
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Position multisituée et récursivité by Anne-Christine Trémon

“…This article thus ends up reflecting on how the anthropologist’s position in the field can result in displacements of the context of the subject of study.…”
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Gender, race, and life writing in the ethnography of Ruth Landes in Bahia by Sally Cole

“…American anthropologist Ruth Landes (1908-1991) conducted ethnographic fieldwork in candomblé centers, terreiros, in Salvador, Bahia, in 1938-1939. …”
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La vie sexuelle des anthropologues : subjectivité érotique et travail ethnographique by Don Kulick

“…He proposes to think the anthropological interest in the sexuality of the studied people, the growing movement of reflexivity in anthropology and the astonishing silence surrounding the anthropologist as a sexual subject. He discusses what should be the meaning of words like sex and sexuality, and especially how they are employed by the fieldworkers who reached he’s request for testimonies and articles.…”
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