L’angosciosa resistenza: decostruire la categoria dell’“abbandono istituzionale” nel quartiere di edilizia popolare di San Siro (Milano) by Paolo Grassi

“…Starting from the situational analysis of an event that took place in the public housing neighbourhood of San Siro (Milan) – a social activity organized by a neighbourhood committee that turned into an agora, an assembly, thanks to the participation of the city council members, third sector organizations, and social movements activists – the paper will ethnographically investigate the category of “institutional abandonment”, i.e. the condition of desolation and decay that would affect that urban space. …”
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Recasting forest forager and food-producer population interaction as a pivotal prehistoric process of change by Karen D. Lupo, Dave N. Schmitt

“…In the ethnographic and recent past, forested areas of West and Central Africa were populated by forest foragers and food producers who maintained multidimensional interrelationships. …”
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De l’« efficacité » symbolique des interdits à leur fonctionnalité écologique by Hélène Artaud

“…Based on a wide range of ethnographic and ethno-ecological cases, our analysis will effort to provide answers to these two questions.…”
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Produire collectivement du sens en temps de crise : l'utilisation de Wikipédia lors de la pandémie de COVID-19 by Sandrine Bubendorff, Caroline Rizza

“…We conducted a qualitative investigation mobilizing an ethnographic analysis of the Wikipedia's pages related to the pandemic as well as interviews with its contributors and a member of the Wikimedia Foundation-France. …”
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Socialisations alimentaires entre touristes et locaux. Formes et effets des expériences culinaires de la plateforme Eatwith by Laura Arciniegas

“…In this context, spaces for encounters around food between travelers and locals have arisen, in part thanks to developments in collaborative economy and technological advances. Using an ethnographic approach based on the theoretical framework of the sociology of the eater, we have identified four communicative paths about food, showing how each local host, through his or her initiative and creativity, manages to communicate his or her own vision of authenticity. …”
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L’ayahuasca et son ombre. L’apprentissage de la possession dans un centre chamanique d’Amazonie péruvienne by David Dupuis

“…Then, based on the ethnographic description of a participant’s ritual journey, he tries to shed light on the underpinnings of the appropriation of these motifs and its implications, both in terms of symbolic recomposition of identity and the dynamics of cultural transmission.…”
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Collective Identity and Care Ethics: Insights From Chilean Migrant Solidarity Initiatives by Tamara Hernández Araya

“…Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted with more than twelve migrant organizations in Chile, this article examines how mutual support groups establish and maintain networks of care that their members view as moral imperatives. …”
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Waste and the neoliberal work of blame: Reading politics from Cape Town’s informal landscapes by Angela D. Storey

“…Drawing from public service campaigns and ethnographic research, this article examines neoliberal ideologies as discourses of blame that erase the political context for marginalized lives, and argues for the need to understand ideologies of governance by setting them against the broad politics of everyday life.…”
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Classic Maya Settlement Clusters as Urban Neighborhoods: A Comparative Perspective on Low-Density Urbanism by Michael E. Smith

“…This article presents comparative historical and ethnographic data from low-density cities to support this interpretation. …”
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Francoféminisme en Tunisie : pratiques langagières et enjeux institutionnels by Mariem Guellouz, Sélima Kebaïli

“…Based on historical archives and ethnographic fieldwork in Tunisia, the article analyses language ideologies that articulate the practice of the French language and modernity as well as the processes that has participated to shape the institutional and activist feminist field in Tunisia. and proposes the term francofeminism to characterize this process.…”
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Le nahualli-tlahuipuchtli dans le monde nahuatl by Roberto Martínez González

“…If we consider that the sixteenth century sources do not present an exhaustive description of this supernatural character, then we must compare the ancient information with recent ethnographic data in order to explain and define its meaning. …”
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Rethinking Representation and Animation by Erik Solfeldt, Anna Naglaya

“…This paper draws on new animism and Indigenous knowledge, combined with visual ethnographic analysis to create a visual ethnoarchaeology of northwestern Siberian humanoid figurines, here viewed as material spirits, within their animistic contexts. …”
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O laboratório em rede: fabricando transgênicos, construindo a sociedade by Felipe Vargas, Jalcione Almeida

“…We have conducted ethnographic observations and some interviews, through which is possible to describe how the laboratory carries the transgenic all over society. …”
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Pratiques de l’écrit et temporalités dans le travail domestique de jeunes mères by Jean-Pierre Mercier

“…It is woven by many social literacy practices. An ethnographic case study has allowed to document literacy practices for household work done by young mothers (n =31). …”
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« Trouvez-vous une femme ici et tout s’arrangera… ». L’intervention religieuse auprès d’étrangers placés en rétention by Mathilde Darley

“…This article relies on ethnographic research conducted together with chaplains in charge of spiritual and legal advice for irregular migrants in a German detention centre. …”
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Life on board ship and cultural intimacy. Notes from the Central Mediterranean by Jasmine Iozzelli

“…In this essay, I offer reflections that emerged from my ethnographic research on board search and rescue ships in the Central Mediterranean between 2019 and 2021. …”
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Zakotwiczanie się. Migrantki z Polski w norweskim przedszkolu by Izabela Czerniejewska

“… Based on participant observation and ethnographic interviews with Polish women working in kin-dergartens in Norway, this article studies the migrant women’s employment trajectories, including adaptation processes in the workplace and integration into the wider Norwegian society. …”
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« C’est une pièce qui rentre dans une autre pièce » : Normer les corps par l’éducation à la santé sexuelle en Suisse romande by Marlyse Debergh, Sophie Torrent

“…Drawing upon two ethnographic studies conducted in Western Switzerland – in a sexual education service for disabled people, and in a sexual health centre for the general public – this article demonstrates how gender is constructed through sexual health education. …”
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Prosumer Neo-Tribes: An Ethnography of Recreational Cycling Communities by Kübra Aşan, Medet Yolal

“…The study investigates two distinct recreational cycling tribes in Türkiye using ethnographic methods and participatory observations. …”
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Mais que sont devenus les poissons du delta du Danube ? Les économies morales de la dégradation de la pêche dans une réserve de biosphère by Veronica Mitroi, Jean-Paul Billaud

“…Unsuited to the specific small scale fisheries, quota policies consider the degradation of fisheries primarily as a result of overfishing, a failure of the institutional systems that do not succeed to regulate access to the resource. Based on an ethnographic study of fishing rights evolution in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, this article presents the degradation of fish resources as a form of “moral economy”, defining new forms of interaction between actors, resources and environments in order to address environmental uncertainties. …”
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