De la violencia mítica al « mundo flor ». Transformaciones de la Semana Santa en el Norte de México by Carlo Bonfiglioli, Arturo Gutiérrez, María Eugenia Olavarría

“…Despite the evident differences both in religious ethos and in cosmology, an ethnological comparison shows how the four cases analysed here refer to the same structural model in which the role of the mediators is essential for seeing how the negative characteristics of one pole become beneficial for the community.…”
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La culture de la patate douce et du maïs chez les Krahô by Ana Gabriela Morim de Lima

“…In the context of recent ethnological debate, Krahô’s ethnography offers original elements for thinking about other forms of human-plant interaction that, going beyond human exceptionalism, reveal a general effort to produce kinship ties with cultivated plants.…”
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Los límites de la humanidad. El mito de los ch’ullpa en Marcapata (Quispicanchi), Perú by Pablo F. Sendón

“…This paper presents and discusses the myth of the ch’ullpa – beings of the pre-solar time – such as it is narrated by the members of the ayllu Collana from the district of Marcapata (province of Quispicanchi, Cusco) in relation to three kind of sources: a) the archaeological information about the geographical and spatial localization of the mortuary monuments which received that name in the Central Andes; b) the ethnological information about other versions of the myth registered among other indigenous-peasant populations from Southern Peru and the Bolivian altiplano; c) the ethnohistorical information which, in relation with the myth, has been registered by several scholars. …”
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70 anos da guerreira: a mestiçagem brasileira na tradução musical de Clara Nunes by Expedito Leandro Silva

“…Among the songs that best represent the artist portrayal are “Canto das Três Raças” and “Brasil Mestiço Santuário da Fé”, sang by her in the 1980s, the lyrics and interpretation showed the social Brazilian ethnological context in great detail. However, the cries of the people and the musical manifestation reproduced in the songs present an ideology of nationhood whose identity is the Brazilian miscegenation which means the cultures of the native Indians, the white and the black people.…”
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L’insaisissable religion des Taïnos. Esquisse d’anthropologie historique by Giuseppe A. Samonà

“…More specifically, the author analyzes the eyewitness accounts of Columbus and Pané and underscores their genuinely ethnological quality, particularly in the case of the latter. …”
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As galinhas incontáveis. Tupis, europeus e aves domésticas na conquista no Brasil by Felipe Ferreira Vander Velden

“…These reports, allied to the historical, ethnographic and ethnological knowledge accumulated on the colonial Tupians and other contemporary Tupi-speaking groups, would help us elucidate some questions about the cosmological meanings of domestic chickens among Tupians, as well as discuss a complex network which connected native and colonial villages in the first 200 years of the conquest. …”
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Les Karaboro et le rônier by Ali Bene, Anne Fournier

“…By cross-referencing oral tradition (our ethnological surveys) and the very rare archival data available, it describes what can be reconstructed of the modes of transmission of knowledge about this plant. …”
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One hundred and fifty years of ethnobotanical studies in North America by Robert Bye, Edelmira Linares

“…This article was the first of 17 publications that he generated based upon his field work, botanical and ethnological specimens, laboratory analyses, and literature from the western provinces of the USA and northern Mexico. …”
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À propos des foyers protohistoriques à pierres chauffantes en Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur by Denis Dubesset

“…Archaeological data (spatial arrangement, location within a specific area, site specialization, long chronology, structures intended for the community, etc.) and ethnological data make it possible to consider the largest groupings of hearths as strong territorial markers wherein links to political and religious power might be be achieved by the association of several habitat units.…”
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