Woven Identities: Socioeconomic Change, Women’s Agency, and the Making of a Heritage Art in Jølster, Norway by Sallie Anna Steiner

“…This article draws on ethnographic research and interviews with representative practitioners and community members to examine how conceptions about producer and audience identity and the role of this art form in everyday life have evolved in light of changing context. …”
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Les paysages de l’affectif by Dominique Henry

“…The initial publication laid the bases for an ethnographic method of studying the landscape on the basis of comments by a livestock raiser given as an example. …”
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Farewell to Fiestas and Saints? Changing Catholic Practices in Contemporary Rural Oaxaca by Toomas Gross

“…This article discusses recent changes in Catholic festivities, especially the system of fiestas in rural Mexico. The ethnographic focus of the discussion is on indigenous Zapotec communities of the State of Oaxaca. …”
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Les liminalités dans les représentations du cycle solaire quotidien by Danièle Dehouve

“…The article studies the division of the daily solar cycle in Mexico, among the Aztecs of the 16th century based on ethnohistorical documents, and among the contemporary Tlapanec people based on ethnographic observations. Instead of viewing the cycle as built upon two points (sunrise and sunset) and two categories (day and night), I show that it hinges on four points (also including noon and midnight) and four categories (also including the rising sun and setting sun). …”
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Résister aux normes de l’espace public. Les lieux des minorités sexuelles et de genre à Beyrouth by Jean Makhlouta

“…Despite encountering significant social and legal constraints in the Near East, sexual and gender minorities develop strategies to assert their right to the city. Through an ethnographic study combining semi-structured interviews and participant observations, this article aims to understand how these minority groups negotiate a place in the city of Beirut. …”
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Discourses of reforms and questions of citizenship: the university in Jordan by Daniele Cantini

“…I explore the details of the university systems in the country, with the aim of showing, with an in-depth ethnographic analysis, how this system works, how it shapes and rebuilds the educated part of the population, and what the differences within the systems mean in the broader political and social context.…”
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Une méthodologie pour l’enquête sémasiologique by Aline Pons

“…In the framework of my doctoral thesis, dedicated to the study of the meaning of the Alpine space lexicon in the Cottian Alps, I wanted instead to try to directly investigate the meaning of a selection of lexotypes, singled out from the Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Western Piedmont – ALEPO. To this end, I chose to carry out the investigations in my Occitan variety, in order to free the informants from the burden of translation into a different language, which is articulated in a different taxonomy of the Alpine space. …”
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Hybrid presence: Integrating interprofessional interactions with digital consultations by Simonsen Line Maria

“…I investigate these questions in this study of how digitalisation conditions social interactions in the context of the Danish medical setting by drawing on ethnographic work. Moreover, via a video-recorded case study, this article shows how two practitioners organise social actions by exploiting features of a digital communication system in a situation where they manage a practical problem. …”
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Ethnography and Religious Anthropology of Cuba: Historical and Bibliographical Landmarks by Emma Gobin, Géraldine Morel

“…The development that Cuban studies are undergoing today, particularly the ethnographic study of religious practices usually characterised as “of African origin”, is no coincidence. …”
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Etnografia dell’incertezza: l’incapacità di pensare il futuro come assenza (culturale) by Vincenzo Matera

“…From a theoretical point of view and on the basis of ethnographic indexes I present an analysis of some conditions that erode the sense of belonging, that kind of "feel at home" which is premise and result of social relationships based on the management of uncertainty of the future, and provoke moral and material conflicts (and even violence). …”
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Éléments d’une anthropologie du voyage Lévi-Strauss et Hérodote by Pascal Payen

“…In the first pages of Tristes Tropiques, Lévi-Strauss dismisses the enterprise which he decides to adopt: narrate the story of his exploration voyage and his ethnographic quest in Amazonian territories. The western tradition places at the origin of this literary range some Greek authors, with Herodotus in the first place. …”
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Négocier la reconnaissance de sa citoyenneté par le squat by Alizée Lazzarino

“…Based on a reflection on citizenship, this article analyzes the activist trajectory of a collective of female sex workers in Barcelona through their involvement in non-residential squats (illegally occupied spaces). A nine-month ethnographic study in squats in the Raval neighborhood frequented by neighbors and members of the collective Putas Indignadas showed how these women find in these illegal spaces the opportunity to express themselves, showcase their skills, and form alliances with local actors despite the criminalization of their presence in the city. …”
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Spaces of solidarity under constraints: The promotion of volunteering in the management of luggage storage for homeless people in Paris by Louka Herse

“…Based on the results of a two-year ethnographic study, the article analyses the voluntary work policy implemented by the City of Paris to set up luggage repositories for homeless people. …”
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An Aesthetic Visualization of Ritual Ordering among the Yoruba Drummer: A Medium of Life Celebration by Olusegun Adebolu Oladosu

“…The paper use in-depth interview, participant observation, archival materials and ethnographic methods to generate data needed for its analysis. …”
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Les étudiants francophones et l’anglais à l’université française : mission impossible? by Nicole Décuré, Elisabeth Crosnier

“…Students from countries with multiple mother tongues and French as an official language, who are studying or completing their studies in France, often face serious difficulties in English. An ethnographic survey of students was conducted at Toulouse III University among students from Maghreb and Sub-Saharan African countries which enabled us to identify some of the factors at work. …”
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Intercultural competencies of Polish and Kazakh teachers explored in their Facebook profiles by Adam Jagiełło-Rusiłowski, Zhandarbek Immanchiyev

“…The rationale for intercultural learning was derived from the pedagogies of Abay and Korczak while the list of attitudes, skills and knowledge to be observed was adapted from Deardorff’s (2009) model. Digital ethnographic research approach was used for capturing teachers’ behavior and artifacts in the fi eld site. …”
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De l’interprétation des liens entre vivants et morts dans l’espace habité maya Classique by Hemmamuthé Goudiaby

“…By associating archaeological observations and ethnographical data, it becomes possible to partially restore the place of the dead in a funerary hierarchy of greater subtlety than the sometimes omnipresent figure of the "ancestor" tends to suggest.…”
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Reinventing Representations of “Local” Identity and Culture by Seraina Hürlemann

“…This article explores social processes contributing to the reinvention of tourist destinations using ethnographic data collected at the case study site in Lashi Hai, a rural area in north-west Yunnan, China. …”
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Juxtaposing Time : an Anthropology of Multiple Temporalities in Morocco by Leila Abu-Shams, Araceli González-Vázquez

“…Given the multiplicity of time markers, time frameworks and calendars, an important aspect is time-telling and time-shifting. Drawing on ethnographic examples from Morocco, we will shed light on the social and cultural understanding of time.…”
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Jogos, sociabilidade e conflito no Brasil by Édison Gastaldo, Everardo Rocha, Adriana Braga

“…In this paper, starting from two ethnographic experiences, we wish to explore the symbolic dimension of ordinary participation in games in Brazilian culture.…”
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