Ritual Continuity and “Failed Rituals” in a Winter Masquerade in the Italian Alps by Lia Zola

“…Alpine winter masquerades, also known as carnival masquerades, may be regarded as one of the most complex phenomena within the field of study of cultural anthropology and folklore. 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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Nouveaux indices de fréquentation du Val d’Orléans (Loiret) par les premiers mésolithiques by Sandrine Deschamps, Morgane Liard, Johannes Musch

“…Preliminary studies of the lithic assemblage combined with C14 dating confirm the identification of the remains as belonging to the early Mesolithic.Since these sites are in a high risk flood zone where building is forbidden, they are not threatened by development and therefore will not be excavated.These finds reopen the debate on the settlement of the Loire valley bottom in an early stage of the Holocene in social and cultural anthropology terms since they indicate recurrent occupations of the area.…”
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O ensino de Ciências Sociais na Faculdade Catarinense de Filosofia by Amurabi Oliveira

“…The article focuses on the analysis of the first classes of social sciences (cultural anthropology and sociology) created at Faculdade Catarinense de Filosofia (Catarinense Faculty of Philosophy), an institution founded in the 1950’s in Florianópolis, through the "teaching reports" produced by the first professors of these classes. …”
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L’Espagne recherchée et ressentie de Bartolomé Bennassar by François Zumbiehl

“…The observation of the actual reality, the cultural anthropology, the well-reasoned contemplation of art works, including his fondness for bullfighting enriched his valuable contribution to the history of Spain and Spanish peoples. …”
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Theory of Symbols by the second generation of Russian Symbolists & the Archetypal Theory: Religious, Anthropologic, Cultural Aspects of Succession by S. N. Lyutova

“…Also the author traced development of several of the Russian Modern Anthropological ideas at the American Post-modern Cultural Anthropology.…”
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Collective Identity and Care Ethics: Insights From Chilean Migrant Solidarity Initiatives by Tamara Hernández Araya

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Continuité des rituels et “Rituels manqués” lors d'une Mascarade d'hiver dans les Alpes italiennes by Lia Zola

“…Alpine winter masquerades, also known as carnival masquerades, may be regarded as one of the most complex phenomena within the field of study of cultural anthropology and folklore. 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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Un terrain d’expérimentation au long cours : Robert Lafont et la Revue des langues romanes by Philippe Gardy

“…The inventory and periodization of his collaborations allow us to sketch a portrait, the time having passed, of an original personality, between medievalism, linguistics, Occitan literary history and cultural anthropology.…”
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Psychological Anthropology: A Critical Review of the Book Culture and Identity by Asghar Izadi-Jeiran

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Hypothetical 3D reconstruction of the tomb of the nomarch Ini from Gebelein by Wojciech Ejsmond, Jakub Stępnik

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Kulturní dějiny? Kulturní dějiny! by Milena Lenderová

“…Semiotic (symbolic) determination of culture based on social (cultural) anthropology is a methodology background of the everyday life history. …”
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The history of science, the ‘big picture’ and the politics of scale by James Poskett, James Poskett

“…And following work in cultural anthropology, I argue that scale should be understood as an actor's category just as much as an analytic category. …”
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Rethinking Legal Practice, and Its Consideration From the Position of Post-Classical Legal Method by I. L. Chestnov

“…The most promising approach to their study is the method of included observation within the framework of socio-cultural anthropology of law.…”
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Ethnographic methods in libraries revisited by Philip Hider, Simon Wakeling, Jane Garner

“…Ethnography has increasingly been utilised by social science researchers outside of social and cultural anthropology. We report here an analysis of the extent and nature of its use in library studies research over the past decade. …”
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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

“…Observing the films of Iranian videographers who themselves belong to the culture of Lor Bakhtiari was the reason for the anthropologist to start getting acquainted with academic ethnology and anthropology in Iran, which belongs to those national traditions of the discipline that are located on the periphery of the world’s main, predominantly Western, centers of socio-cultural anthropology.…”
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Nature and culture intertwined or redefined? On the challenges of cultural primatology and sociocultural anthropology by Gabriela Daly Bezerra de Melo

“…Whereas cultural primatology traditionally employs paradigms long abandoned by sociocultural anthropology, leading to a simplistic naturalization of culture in the eyes of anthropologists, it can be said that cultural anthropology remains reluctant to engage in dialogue with life sciences, alarmed it might be reduced to them. …”
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Dzieje placówek ekologii człowieka w Polsce by Napoleon Wolański, Anna Siniarska

“…Within this Unit, two Chairs were formed: Human Biology and Cultural Anthropology. The first one contains three Departments: 1. …”
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Old History of Culture and New Cultural History by Zenonas Norkus

“…New cultural history uses an analytical concept of culture peculiar to contemporary social science as its theoretical point of reference and considers the methods of field research in cultural anthropology as its methodological paradigm. From the analytical point of view (T. …”
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Proverbs Attributed to Humans and Nonhumans in the Beja Language (Sudan) by Mohamed-Tahir Hamid Ahmed

“…The analysis of proverbial semantic structure in this article is proposed as a contribution to knowledge of the cultural anthropology of the speakers of the Beja language in Sudan. …”
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Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: The Secret World of Women as Seen by Men by Adriana Kaplan, Babucarr Cham, Lamin A. Njie, Ana Seixas, Sandra Blanco, Mireia Utzet

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