Un grin de jeunesse ? by Anna Dessertine

“…Based on an ethnographic study in a Malinké village in north-east Guinea, this article considers the question of what constitutes youth in the context of rural West Africa. …”
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Visions of Sustainable Future Shaped Through a Dilemma: International Tourism Development and Lagoon Management in Bacalar by Eriko Yamasaki, Laura Meneghello

“…As a drastic increase in tourist arrivals leads to the contamination of the lagoon, the question of sustainability of tourism development has become a highly debated issue in that small town. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in March 2019, this paper examines the visions of sustainability that the citizens of Bacalar developed in the attempt to find a balance between the growth of international tourism and the protection of local natural heritage. …”
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Teaching how to critically read Indo-Caribbean bodies in nineteenth-century postcards by Rupa Pillai

“…From village scenes to Indo-Caribbean women in studio portraits, the bodies featured in these postcards appear in ethnographic views to promote perceptions of Indo-Caribbeans as being exotic and different. …”
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L’odeur de l’axé by Arnaud Halloy

“…Curiously, such phenomenological blatancy has never caught much interest among Afro-Brazilianists. It might be ethnographically noticed here and there, but there are very few attempts, if any, of theorizing their potential ritual function. …”
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Montrer ou cacher le corps humain by Brigitte Faugère

“…In this article, using an approach based on what we know from ethnohistorical and ethnographic studies about the conception of the body at the time of the Spanish conquest, I attempt to examine the possible meanings of its representation. …”
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A Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus: ação social além-fronteiras by Nina Rosas

“…The resulting achievement is a vehicle of empowerment and transformation. The ethnographic material is composed of articles and stories collected from newspapers, journals, magazines, websites and blogs created by the church and that register social actions of the UCKG during 2009 and 2010.…”
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Intégration symbolique à Fès et ancrages sur l’ailleurs : Les Africains subsahariens et leur rapport à la zaouïa d’Ahmad al-Tijânî by Johara Berriane

“…The article questions the role of the zawiya of Ahmad al-Tijani in the everyday life and the trajectories of sub-Saharan migrants and students living in Fez. Based on an ethnographic research carried out in and around that sanctuary-mosque and qualitative interviews conducted with migrants and students, it analyses the function, role and place that this West-African pilgrimage site has for sub-Saharan residents of Fez. …”
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Futuros en contrapunto: proyección, predicción y deseo en maya yucateco by Valentina Vapnarsky

“…It is based on an analysis of linguistic choices in the expression of prospective utterances, which are examined ethnographically in the midst of communicative situations. …”
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Viabilità relazionale: una prospettiva im/mobile delle relazioni nel Gambia transnazionale by Paolo Gaibazzi

“… While anthropologists have long studied how mobility and immobility shape social relationships, this article describes relatedness itself as a form of im/mobility. It draws on ethnographic research among Soninke speakers in the Gambia and in the diaspora who express their relationship to others through images of what could be characterized as “viability”. …”
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Significados permanentes e mutantes: sociabilidades e significações no cotidiano de um café by Letícia Dias Fantinel, Neusa Rolita Cavedon, Tânia Maria Diederichs Fischer

“…To achieve this, an ethnographic study was developed, in which we adopted techniques of systematic and participant observation, plus in-depth interviews. …”
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The Political Economy of Village Level Theocracies in the Ìlàjẹ Coastline, Southwest Nigeria by Babajide Ololajulo

“…The main argument of this article, following ethnographic data collected from four theocratic settlements, which are regarded as the core village theocracies, is that a flexible land tenure regime and a loose traditional political system, among other factors of environment and kinship structure, ensured easy access to land and served to authenticate the spiritual leadership claims of founders of theocratic settlements. …”
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Le revivaliste et ses sources by Cyril Isnart, Pierre Carouge, Jérôme Casalonga, Olivier Durif, Manu Théron

“…The shifting, unstable products of their ties to territories they discovered to be open, to musical knowledge they wished to conquer, and to institutions they domesticated, invented or refused, these collections constitute a source, as much ethnographic as musical, on which the supporters of "tradition" have built their destinies. …”
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Equitable forms of participation on a gaming-adjacent platform by Fredrik Rusk, Matilda Ståhl, Isac Nyman

“…We focus on the infrastructuralized platform and study ethnographically how the labor of moderation and technical competencies that platforms require on the part of the youth workers. …”
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Théâtre et enfermement : la création collective comme modalité de l’expérience d’enquête en prison by Chloé Branders

“…Exhausting its main characteristics, the major stages of ethnographic research will be revisited to explain how the researcher experienced the collective theatrical creation in the specific context of prison.…”
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Концепція мультифронтиру як спроба реалізації просторового підходу в сучасній українській історіографії... by Олександр Удод

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Quelques ficelles de sociologie carcérale by Corinne Rostaing

“…Based on the experience of various long-term ethnographic surveys carried out on the prison world, this article questions prison as a ground of inquiry. …”
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Resistance in retrospect: The multi-temporality of extractivism in the Amazon by Angus Lyall

“…In this article, I examine the multi-temporality of conflicts and negotiations in territories with extractive activities through an ethnographic case study in northern Ecuador. I explore the uprising of an indigenous community against an oil company, during which community members invoked different historical moments: the rubber era; the expansion of institutionalized education in the region; and more recent experiences of urban migration. …”
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Mères seules et belles-mères. Normes conjugales et maternelles en tension. by Manon Réguer-Petit

“…Based on an ethnographic field made in two associations (one of single-mothers and the other of stepmothers), and on 56 interviews carried out with members and non-members of those associations, this article seeks to interrogate how single-motherhood and step-motherhood affect maternity norms of women. …”
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Transpoiesis: the art of doing organization without becoming one by Christian Schröder

“…This paper uses the concept of transpoiesis to describe the mechanisms that sustain social movements. Emerging from ethnographic research on the World Social Forum (WSF) and inspired by systems theory, transpoiesis emphasizes the dynamic balance within social movements between decentralized organization and strategic coherence. …”
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The geometric concepts of the Istana Dalam Loka traditional house: An ethnomathematics study by Maulidia Dwi Meyundasari, Intan Dwi Hastuti, Syaharuddin Syaharuddin, Saba Mehmood

“…Employing a qualitative approach with an ethnographic design, data were gathered through observations and interviews with key, primary, and additional informants. …”
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