Moving Forward, Looking Back: On the Frontlines of Dietary Shift in Rural Ecuador by Joan Gross, Carla Guerrón Montero, Peter Berti, Michaela Hammer

“…Within the broader context of the global nutritional transition, in this article we examine local dietary practices in the northern highlands of Ecuador drawing on ethnographic research. The results of this study demonstrate that the communities studied continue to prepare whole foods for the most part. …”
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Une approche ethnolinguistique sur le lexique de l’élevage chez les Jbala et les Ghomara (nord-ouest du Maroc) by Amina Naciri-Azzouz, Ángeles Vicente

“…We have focused on several interesting terms by providing a linguistic analysis and some ethnographical data.…”
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La cause palestinienne entre « parler musulman » et « parler chiite », ou les transformations des imaginaires politiques dans un village du Liban-Sud by Khalila Aude Coëffic

“…Building on an ethnographic study of Hizbullah’s activists in a village in South Lebanon, this article explores how Lebanese Hizbullah has framed its commitment to the Palestinian cause. …”
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Working on a dream by Lizzie Winter, Jacqui McAlpine

“…As one of the authors was considering options for her thesis for MSc Childhood Studies, she conducted an ethnographic study of the project, focusing on the experiences, views and opinions of young people and care staff participating in the project, and this produced some of the results which will be discussed in this paper.…”

Note sull'accelerazione selvaggia: Etnografia di un incidente motociclistico nell'Amazzonia boliviana by Diego Villar

“…Based on the ethnographic description of a recent event — a road accident in July 2022 — the paper analyzes the mechanization process of indigenous worlds and, in particular, of the practical consequences of the diffusion of motorcycles among the Chacobo (Panoan) of the Bolivian Amazon. …”
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L’autonomie de l’élève et ses supports pédagogiques by Héloïse Durler

“…This contribution is based on an ethnographic study on teaching practices regarding primary school student autonomy. …”
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Between Post- and Conflict: Ancestral Authority and Political Aggressions in Guatemala's Ixil Region by Michele Grandi

“…This article examines the prolonged post-conflict dynamics in Guatemala's Ixil region, focusing on the 2022 assault on the Alcaldía Indígena of Nebaj. Through an ethnographic lens, it highlights how neoliberal decentralization, multicultural reforms, and the legacies of the civil war have reshaped local governance, intertwining historical and global dimensions. …”
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La sincérité des sentiments et des mots. Les logiques essentialisantes d’une économie morale occidentale des homosexualités masculines au Maroc by Marien Gouyon

“…The analysis of the social relations between Moroccan and French homosexuals makes it possible to understand that the imperative of sincerity carries specific values under the guise of a universal definition of homosexual identities. The ethnographic survey identifies, at the heart of the transformation of social relationships into inter-ethnic relations and racializing processes, the affirmation of love feeling as a value.…”
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Processos de significação em contraste: violência contra as mulheres no Brasil e em Cabo Verde by Miriam Steffen Vieira

“…In the case of Cape Verde, ethnographic data were collected at different times of public discourse on the implementation of the law that criminalized violence based on gender, in January 2011.…”
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Multilingual Singing in Nigeria: Examining Roles, Meaning, and Function in Wazobia Gospel Music by Adekunle Oyeniyi

“…This article presents an introductory historical, sociolinguistic, and ethnographic study of “Wazobia gospel music”, a twenty-first-century Nigerian congregational musical genre. …”
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On the Handing over of the Exhibits of the 1900 Paris Exposition. Correspondence among the Lithuanian Alliance of America, Morta Zauniūtė, and Jonas Basanavičius (1905–1909) by Mikas Vaicekauskas

“…Since it was impossible to have a separate pavilion for political reasons, it was shown in the ethnographic part of the exposition at the Trocadéro Museum of Ethnography, that is, at the Trocadéro Palace. …”
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Supporting teachers to lead invention education with high school students by Audra Skukauskaite, Stephanie Renee Couch

“…Design/methodology/approach – This focused ethnographic study traced participants’ interactions across a three-day event that included professional development for 36 educators. …”
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Con-donare. Ipertrofia del dono nello Sri Lanka post-tsunami by Mara Benadusi

“…It shows that the process of “commodification” of international aid was not produced by a monolithic humanitarian apparatus, considered as the perverse expression of the interference of the North on the South of the world. Various ethnographic studies prove that the “competitive humanitarianism” that emerged in Sri Lanka resulted by an interrelate network of individuals and organizations which overcomes the rigid distinction between beneficiaries and donors, expatriates and locals, experts and non-experts. …”
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Tirando del hilo desde el Gran Chaco: significación y alcance del estudio de las figuras de hilo tradicionales by José Braunstein

“…On the basis of the author’s ethnographic experience of more than half a century in the South American Gran Chaco, it shows the development of a line of research that, from Marcel Mauss’ definition of “body techniques,” proposes a method to advance in the phylogenetic understanding of human societies.…”
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Paving a route: Transportation and Aymara politics between Bolivia and Chile by Alejandro Garcés, Jorge R. Moraga

“…This article is based on an ethnographic study of the land route that connects the port of Iquique (Chile) and the city of Oruro (Bolivia). …”
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Shaming et mises en scène de pratiques journalistiques « déloyales » dans les documentaires télévisuels d’investigation. by Gilles Labarthe

“…Based on an exploratory socio-ethnographic observation of a French team, the author examines situations revealing the discrepancies between the justifications proffered by the journalists and their actions. …”
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Au cœur du debaa by Elena Bertuzzi

“…It recounts the public’s experience and shows not only the relevance of the plastic transformation of ethnographic knowledge, which is often confined to the academic sphere, but also the boundaries with which researchers are confronted.…”
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Integración y migración : las Iglesias pentecostales en España by Paola García

“…On the basis of the ethnographic information gathered in diverse field research (2004-2008), our aim is to show the efficiency of these institutions in the social and professional integration of the Latin American immigrants who live in Madrid.…”
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Proletarianization and Dispossession of Mixtec Workers: Roots of Indigenous Migration to New York by Rodolfo Hernández Corchado

“…This article analyzes the history of the formation of a transnational market of indigenous Mixtec workers from the region of Montañade Guerrero in New York. Based on ethnographic work with undocumented Mixtec workers in the United States, this article examines the formation of labor migration from the South of Mexico. …”
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Las cosechas de la violencia en Centroamérica: una reflexión a forma de epílogo by Tatiana Paz Lemus

“…Placing both compilations of ethnographic work side by side, allows us to observe the violence continuum in the region and reflect on what the anthropological work can provide to a regional understanding of post-conflict societies.…”
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