Les cultures de l’étude à l’université dans leurs rapports avec les formes d’enseignement et la réussite académique by Coralie Touati

“…Using a mixed methodology, articulating ethnographical observations, qualitative interviews and analytical statistics, the purpose is to explore the relations between studying, teaching and academic success. …”
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Women's Shelters and Municipalities in Turkey : Between Solidarity and Benevolence by Berna Ekal

“…Accordingly, most academic works on women's shelters focus on these dimensions of feminist shelters. Based on ethnographic work in shelters in Turkey and by dwelling upon the literature of the anthropology of the state, this article, on the other hand, argues that in the case of Turkey, women's shelters are to be treated as bureaucratic institutions, not as feminist structures, as most of the shelters are embedded in the administrative structure of municipalities and central state's social services.…”
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Growth, Segregation and Displacement Mechanisms in the Peri-urban of Quito by Gustavo Durán, Marc Martí, Juan Mérida

“…This paper seeks a qualitative approach to the urban periphery of Quito with the purpose of investigating, in the context of the expansion process of the city, the possible effects of real-estate actions in the socio-spatial transformations of the traditional inhabitants of those areas where the urbanizing process intensified. Through the ethnographic method, sample contextualization techniques, passive observation processes and key actor interviews were used. …”
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Opacités et implicites : ce que Parcoursup fait au groupe professionnel des enseignant·es by Alexie Geers, Florence Legendre, Samuel Pinto

“…Our analysis is based on socio-ethnographic research conducted in an high school. The multiple and nebulous prescriptions redefine the license and mandate (Hughes, 1996) of teachers by broadening their field of action opaquely. …”
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San la Muerte : un métissage religieux insistant by Maureen Burnot

“…This article proposes to trace the process of configuring the cult of San la Muerte in Argentina from archives, historical sources and ethnographic data. We begin by exploring the data that enable us to grasp how catholic and indigenous elements gradually combined at the time of the genesis of devotion, before questioning the transformation of the amulet from an object of power to a popular saint over the course of the 20th century. …”
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Figurine Embodiment and Household Ritual in an Early Mixtec Village by Nathan J. Meissner, Katherine E. South, Andrew K. Balkansky

“…A holistic interpretation of the figurines, including their unique archaeological associations, mortuary, faunal and ethnographic information illuminates key aspects of the life-cycle termination of both human and non-human subjects. …”
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Pukara de los wak’a. Cerros, muros concéntricos y divinidades tutelares en el altiplano centro-sur andino by Pablo Cruz, Richard Joffre

“…Articulating new archaeological data with historical and ethnographic information, this paper presents and analyzes different aspects of these ceremonial spaces in the Andean highlands.…”
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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 forza della vulnerabilità. Il mediatore come performer al confine tra culture diverse by Stefano De Matteis

“…Drawing on an analysis of ethnographic situations rooted in the history of anthropology as well as on the interpretation of a criminal event committed in Italy, the work aims at working the concepts of risk and vulnerability as social categories, which is possible to face through a set of cultural practices. …”
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“Dimmi di che morte dobbiamo morire”: dinamiche di persuasione strutturale nel post-terremoto del Centro Italia (2016-2017) by Francesco Danesi

“…On the basis of an ethnographic research led one year after the earthquake in some of the stricken areas, the article discusses both the ambiguous logic of the institutional strategy and the activation of the emergency dispositive. …”
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Entre religions et spiritualité, quels rôles pour la laïcité dans les collèges publics : une comparaison franco-brésilienne by Gabriela Valente

“…To answer these questions, an ethnographic study conducted in a comparative education approach gives us access to school situations concerning the religious. …”
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Faide indiane e allarmismi lombardi. La mediatizzazione del conflitto ‘etnico’ e la sua eco sulla quotidiana convivenza migranti/autoctoni by Sara Bonfanti

“…An embittered xenophobic and racist imagination tainted the local public opinion, replacing the typecast of Indians as mild laborers with ruthless criminals, enmeshed in feuds of southern Italian memory. Through ethnographic narratives and local chronicles, I contrast the stakes of immigrants and natives, citizens and officials, unraveling how the identity outcomes of that drama affected social interactions and integration of the Panjabi communities long established in the area.  …”
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The Government of the Indians: An Anthropology of State Formation in Oaxaca, Mexico by Yerko Castro Neira

“…This article analyzes the process of state formation in Mexico, focusing on the case of the state of Oaxaca, where the role of indigenous forms of governance are examined in the relation to the construction of state power. Drawing on ethnographic material it examines how the concept of government of the indians circulates in a variety of contexts in which different actors –legal experts, academics, leaders and indigenous intellectuals– construct this concept through everyday social practices which in turn undergirds the way in which the state constantly produces and reproduces itself. …”
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Dispositifs de catégorisation et construction du lien social : l’entrée dans une association homoparentale by Luca Greco

“…A primary issue concerning a polyphonic, categorical, and political vision of ethnographic texts is the interactional negotiation of identities between informants and fieldworkers and its contextualization in fieldwork notes and academic texts. …”
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The Post-2015 European Border Regime. New Approaches in a Shifting Field by Sabine Hess, Bernd Kasparek

“…Against the background of our recent ethnographic research project on the European border regime in South-East Europe in 2016, the article calls for a re-visiting of established paradigms and approaches in border studies. …”
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Digitization, return, and circulation of sound recordings among the Bora in the Colombian Amazon by Maria Luísa Lucas

“…Thus, we will examine how these song files have returned to their original places, as well as the access arrangements that affect them and how they are currently used. Such ethnographic data will reveal essential questions about the transmission of knowledge and the master-apprentice relationship. …”
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Appropriations locales de la tragédie collective. Approche ethnologique des inondations de novembre 1999 à Cuxac d’Aude by Julien Langumier

“…These approaches answer both to external and synthetic points of view on the event. The ethnographical research proposes another approach which focuses on the bonds with the territory and the practices of the inhabitants and stakeholders. …”
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Seamstresses Damn It! Struggle Trajectories and Self-Management in Argentina’s Popular Economies by Alioscia Castronovo

“…The purpose of this article is to contribute to the conceptualization of popular economies, creating a dialogue between authors and perspectives of the social sciences and drawing from an ethnographic research project in Buenos Aires. This article is about a journey of the social, productive, and political threads in time and space of the Juana Villca cooperative, which had as its protagonists’ migrant Bolivian workers. …”
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Esposos y amantes consanguíneos entre los tobas (qom) del Gran Chaco by Florencia Tola

“…Based on material collected among the Toba (Qom) of the Gran Chaco, this article reveals central aspects of the Toba (Qom) kinship system that point to the existence of endogamous marriage patterns. Until now, ethnographic works on this region have characterized the Toba people as a group with a propensity to openness, supposedly expressed in the field of kinship by a generalized exogamy in marriage patterns. …”
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How and why to study mountains: topics and types of research between limits and opportunities by Laura Bonato

“… Field practice in a neighbouring ethnographic context – both culturally and geographically –, of which the researcher is a part, entails specific difficulties, epistemological and practical problems quite different from those faced by classical anthropology. …”
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