Modalités plurielles de l’action institutionnelle et implications sur l’activité enseignante. La dynamique des dispositifs et des agencements by Diane Rufin

“…Taking place in primary education in Geneva, using a study of official speeches and an ethnographic research, the article shows the plural modalities of institutional action – by mobilizing the concept of "device" declined in the plural and in the singular – and their implications on teaching activity – by considering the complex "agencements" that give them substance. …”
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L’application du droit de la famille au Maroc : Du « genre » et de la parentalité by Yazid Ben Hounet, Nouri Rupert

“…In order to give a qualitative overview, we conducted an ethnographic survey. The purpose was to understand how family law is implemented in practice in justice court. …”
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Festa, spazio, territorio by Alessandra Broccolini

“…In order to answer these questions, the essay seeks to explore the festivity-territory-inhabitation relation through the spatial analysis of a specific ethnographic case, the feast of the Madonna del Monte di Marta (Viterbo, Lazio), broadening the gaze from the inhabited space of the town-city, where the feast is often (but not always) produced in its ceremonial moments, to the entire territory that the feast encompasses and helps to define, both in the construction of a ‘sense of place’ and in the experience and practical action of the same. …”
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Il valore sociale dei rifiuti. L’intreccio tra istituzioni e pratiche di recupero nello spazio urbano di Casablanca (Marocco) by Anna Karin Giannotta

“…This paper illustrates the findings of an ethnographic research conducted in Casablanca (Morocco) between 2016 and 2017. …”
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La fabrique des reliques. Manipulations et production de sacré dans la clôture by Francesca Sbardella

“…On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork which was conducted among some Carmelite and Augustinian monastic groups (in France and in Italy), the aim of the present paper is to investigate the nature of relic-objects from an anthropological perspective. …”
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Tributary by James Davoll, Paul Dolan, Pete Howson

“…Tributary is an experimental ethnographic film that traces the movement and harnessing of natural resources within the Icelandic landscape to support our digital lives. …”
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La vita è altrove? L'autunno mediterraneo dei pensionati italiani in Tunisia, tra conflitti e crisi. by Laura Faranda

“… This text summarizes an ethnographic research started recently in Tunisia, aimed at the recognition of a migratory phenomenon that concerns the Italian retirees. …”
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Jóvenes migrantes en el puente transnacional Argentina-España: trayectorias de movilidad social a partir de la movilidad geográfica by Sofía Laíz Moreira

“…This paper presents the main results of a research which objective was to analyze the intergenerational social mobility strategies of Argentine youngsters and their families settled in the Autonomous Community of Galicia, in Spain, at the beginning of this century. An ethnographical methodology using a multisided approach has guided a large field work with ten family groups, which members were settled between Galicia, in Spain, and the Province of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. …”
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Entre lógicas cinegéticas y agrícolas: el chamanismo nahua en una cosmología de sacrificio by David Lorente Fernández

“…Mesoamerican forms of shamanism have rarely been discussed in international academic debates. Through ethnographic information collected in the Sierra de Texcoco, in Mexico, what might be called a Nahua shamanic tradition is analyzed in light of the interlacing of relationship modes conceptually associated with hunting and agriculture. …”
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Enseignants d’EPS dans un lycée d’élite : le défi de la « lisibilité » by Sarah Pochon

“…The project is to show that PSE teachers in a Parisian elite high school do not encounter "situational" difficulties but face the "legibility" challenge of their discipline. In support of an ethnographic approach and by a socio-ethno-didactic approach, we propose to situate the PSE discipline in its local and social teaching conditions. …”
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Soap opera viewing in a communal context by Michele Tager

“… This paper presents some of the findings of an ethnographic audience study of the soap opera viewing patterns and interpretations of Zulu-speaking students living in residences at a South African university (Natal University’s Durban campus) who watch The Bold and the Beautiful (an American soap opera) and Generations (a South African soap opera). …”
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Dhikr e sofferenza. Soggettività e pratiche di cura tra le donne curde by Veronica Buffon

“…This article delves into the relation between the Sufi practice of dhikr ("remembrance of God") and the memories of suffering that Kurdish women embody in their everyday lives in a village in northern Kurdistan. This ethnographic study will trace the way in which women represent and interpret their suffering and the sense of marginality produced by the experiences of mourning, by political and state violence, and by processes of assimilation and medicalization in the conflict. …”
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Oltre i margini: comunità, risorse, prospettive by Laura Bonato, Damiano Cortese, Roberta Clara Zanini

“… Making use of the ethnographic observation that the UR of Turin is carrying out as part of the Prin 2020 project on four localities in the Piedmontese Alps, an attempt will be made to analyse the presence of community planning and awareness of the cultural and social meanings of their actions with a view to producing meaning and culture. …”
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Pêches des bélugas, des anguilles et des esturgeons noirs de l’estuaire du St-Laurent by Sabrina Doyon

“…This paper presents an ethnographic examination of beluga whale, eel and black sturgeon fisheries, focusing more particularly on their exploitation, commodification and conservation. …”
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Sovietisation and the Estonian National Museum during 1940s-1950s by Karin Konksi

“…The first, introductory part observes the general frameworks of the (ethnographical) museums in the Soviet Union, thus providing an overview of the goal of Sovietisation policy – what was the system’s perception of the institution that the ENM was supposed to become. …”
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Oltre i margini: comunità, risorse, prospettive by Laura Bonato, Damiano Cortese, Roberta Clara Zanini

“… Making use of the ethnographic observation that the UR of Turin is carrying out as part of the Prin 2020 project on four localities in the Piedmontese Alps, an attempt will be made to analyse the presence of community planning and awareness of the cultural and social meanings of their actions with a view to producing meaning and culture. …”
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Entre éthique dharmique et pratiques agraires productivistes, usage des pesticides chez les Bishnoï du Rajasthan by Maria Mélanie Chauveau

“…Mostly farmers, the Bishnoi are nowadays facing profound transformations brought about by modernity and the intensification of their agriculture (extension of irrigation systems, use of machinery, fertilizers and pesticides).Based on an ethnographic study, this article examines the ethical and religious dilemmas generated by the use of pesticides that destroy living organisms. …”
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Devenir mère, Devenir sujet ? Parcours de femmes enceintes sans-papiers en France by Louise Virole-Zajde

“…Results are based on a qualitative study based on ethnographic observations (maternities, PMI, associations, health network) and on interviews with perinatal professionals and undocumented pregnant – or just given birth – women in Ile-de-France.…”
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I posti dei rifiuti. Badara Ngom e la discarica di Mbeubeuss by Luca Rimoldi

“…The reflection presented here, based on ethnographic data collected between 2016 and 2019 with a group of formal and informal workers of Mbeubeuss, aims to analyze the construction of social and relational spaces in the Dakar landfill. …”
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Expulsionscapes. Logics of Expulsion and Economies of Eviction in Milan (Italy) by Giacomo Pozzi

“…Drawing on ethnographic research carried out between October 2015 and December 2016, in this article I employ an anthropological gaze to show the socially and analytically central role evictions play in the contemporary world as a mechanism for producing social exclusion, inequality and difference. …”
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