Invincible yuanfen ? by Hélène Bloch

“…Beginning with a critical overview of works on yuan and yuanfen, as well as ethnographic research conducted in Sichuan since 2016, this article will explore the different contexts in which this notion fits, in order to take into account the complexity of the registers that speakers handle and the pragmatic uses they can make of these terms.…”
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On Some Aspects of the Lilleoru Community by Kaidi Tamm

“…Based on fieldwork and ethnographic interviews, the present article describes some focal aspects of the community and investigates how Lilleoru functions as a community. …”
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Amitiés particulières au Maghreb : sociabilités et discours homosexuels by Valérie Beaumont

“…We will explain why, in the course of ethnographic research on sexual practices in Maghreb, any attempt to confine relations between males to a typology that isolates friendship, love and sexual desires would be inappropriate. …”
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<i>Tona</i>, the Folk Healing Practices in Rural Punjab, Pakistan by Azher Hameed Qamar

“…The purpose of this study is to analyse tona as it is practiced to cure childhood diseases (sokra and sharwa) in Muslim Punjab, Pakistan. This is an ethnographic study I conducted using participant observation and unstructured interviews as the primary research methods. …”
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Nuove forme di ‘angoscia territoriale’: il caso Viggiano. Strategie culturali di un territorio in crisi by Marialuisa Matera

“…Starting from the results of an ethnographic research carried out during 2016, the article will focus on the analysis of the existential bond between the population and the territory. …”
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Protocole d’errance d’une forme by Francesca Cozzolino, Coralie Maurin, Kristina Solomoukha

“…This text looks back at the developmental stages of an animated short film that grew out of image-based research into Zapatista iconography, grounded in an ethnographic investigation in Chiapas. Designed by an anthropologist, an artist, and a filmmaker, this audio-visual narrative is built like a virtual trip through different groups of images in which different variants of the caracol are shown—a motif that, ranging from the representation of the snail shell to the spiral, embodies both the Maya past and the Zapatista ideals of the present. …”
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Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice by James Alexander Kapaló

“…My argument is illustrated with empirical examples drawn from ethnographic research in Romania and Moldova.…”
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Devenir styliste. Des trajectoires genrées dans les écoles de mode by Nicolas Divert

“…Often personified by men in a field of activities which is identified as feminine, a traditional sexual division of labour gets to be seen. Based upon an ethnographical study conducted in two high-end fashion school located in Paris, this piece proposes to study the way boys and girls’ trajectories are being constructed and differentiate from one another along the course of their studies. …”
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Cartographier l’incartographiable ? Retour sur la mise en place d’une cartographie collaborative institutionnelle pour la végétalisation urbaine participative à paris by Carolina Mudan Marelli, Ornella Zaza

“…Based on a double ethnographic survey within Paris City Hall and with inhabitants, this contribution focuses on the process of setting up a digital platform to support participatory urban greening process in Paris. …”
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Du loisir à l’apprentissage de la vulnérabilité de la nature : jardiner en ville pour renouveler les relations aux vivants, à Malmö (Suède) by Margaux Alarcon, Pascal Marty

“…Using the theoretical framework of care ethics, this paper explores the extent to which urban community gardens offer the opportunity to renew links with ordinary nature, based on attention and responsibility. Our ethnographic study, based on participant observation and semi-structured interviews, conducted in Malmö (Sweden), during 3 months with a local urban gardening network, shows that collective gardens allow direct contact with nature, satisfy needs for a contact with nature and allow the development of a diversity of relationships with plants, including caring relationships. …”
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House and Mobility: Portuguese Hindus and Brazilians in Lisbon in face of housing constraints by Rita Ávila Cachado, Simone Frangella

“…Drawing reflections from two ethnographic contexts in which we have been working, the Hindu-Gujarati and the Brazilian populations in Lisbon, we reflect upon the contours of their experiences, recounting their migration process, and different ways of being under housing vulnerability, as well as their responses to excluding urban politics. …”
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La métamorphose de Yurupari : flûtes, trompes et reproduction rituelle dans le Nord-Ouest amazonien by Dimitri Karadimas

“…Making a comparison between some ethnographical data from the Miraña, from the Tukano speaking groups of the Vaupes and from the Arawak groups north of the area, it appears that a solitary wasp is the common element of these mythological figures. …”
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Aliança, chefia e regionalismo no Alto Xingu by Antonio Roberto Guerreiro Júnior

“…The sharing of a kinship system is one of the upper-xinguano political system’s central elements. But the ethnographic data on alliance in the Upper Xingu is very limited, having never been subjected to a detailed treatment, and little of it could be appropriated by the most recent developments of South-American ethnology. …”
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Desafios de um trabalho de campo no contexto da usina de Belo Monte by Maíra Borges Fainguelernt

“…This is a qualitative and interdisciplinary research that involves both ethnographic methods, as well as participant observation, semi-structured interviews and different techniques of mapping and field research. …”
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Maya Intimacy with the Mountains: Pilgrimage, Sacrifice and Existential Economy by Jan Kapusta

“…In this paper, I present two very different and yet very similar ethnographic examples of mountain-related pilgrimage and sacrifice rituals performed by the present-day highland Maya. …”
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Vulnerability and Housing Policies through the Lens of Anthropology. An Introduction by Giacomo Pozzi, Rita Ávila Cachado, Ana Luísa Micaelo

“…In this context, we proposed to explore ethnographically housing policies as peculiar and paradigmatic forms of contemporary «regimes of mobility». …”
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Des quartiers chez les Mayas à l’époque classique ? by Éva Lemonnier

“…In spite of the wealth of archaeological, ethnographical and ethnohistorical data on the topic of neighborhoods (or units defined as such) in the Postclassic, Historic and Modern Maya societies, the existence of this kind of settlement unit, an intermediary category between the household (the extended family) and the settlement (the community), is far from established for the Classic period. …”
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Così lontane, così vicine. Famiglie migranti, ruoli familiari e nuove configurazioni di genitorialità by Francesca Crivellaro

“…Migrant families’ practices are often constructed in public discourse as a threat to the social cohesion of the receiving countries, as they are deemed incompatible with “Western modernity”. Drawing on ethnographic research carried out in Ravenna (Italy), the paper addresses the issue of evolving gender and care roles in migrant families. …”
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Big pictures after Dawn: ‘ontology’ for historians and utopians by John Tresch, James Poskett

“…It draws on two recent developments in anthropology: first, Graeber and Wengrow's sweeping overview of social forms in The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, and second, the controversial ‘ontological turn,’ which takes seriously ethnographic reports of alternate realities, refusing any shared metaphysical baseline for evaluation. …”
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Représenter « avec » le rite : réflexivité et danse rituelle dans un tableau murui-muina by Oscar Ivan Garcia

“…This study is based on ethnographic data collected during my doctoral fieldwork and on interviews with the artist. …”
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