« Suivre la route ».Mobilités et échanges entre Mali, Mauritanie et Sénégal by Armelle Choplin, Jérôme Lombard

“…Based on a multi-sited fieldwork along the “route”, this paper highlights new form of popular transnationalism but also the contradiction between Ecowas theoretical principles and the growing controls, which hinder circulation.…”
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Culture matérielle et changement : Alfred Métraux chez les Chiriguano by Diego Villar

“…The early ethnological works of Alfred Métraux are analysed bearing in mind his first fieldwork trip to the Chiriguano, in 1929. The paper discusses personal, academic and professional features of Métraux’s ethnological experience, the nature of the 1929 trip and his concrete relationships with the Chiriguano groups and individuals. …”
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Du panafricanisme à la réafricanisation : formation et actualité du mouvement akan aux États-Unis by Pauline Guedj

“…In Cuba and in Brazil, the reafricanization of African American religions has been centered on the promotion of their Yoruba origins. Based on a fieldwork conducted in the United States in these past two years, this article shows how the specificities of North America in terms of reafricanization lie in the existence in this country of another « African » religion : the Akan religion. …”
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Habitants des bidonvilles et revendications de droits de citoyenneté au Maroc by Jaouad Agudal

“…Scholarship has shown that, in moroccan shantytowns, the rights of citizenship hold an important place in practices and narratives of the inhabitants. Based on fieldwork conducted in shantytowns in different regions (Nzala Raddaya – in the Fes-Meknes region) and Douar Laamour (in the Casablanca-Settat region), the author paid special attention to the importance taken on by administrative documents which vouch for the status of shantytown dwellers. …”
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Enhancing individual task performance and productivity: an ethnographic observational study of supported employment among social services clients in Finland by Pirjo Juvonen-Posti, Mirkka Vuorento

“…The research is based on qualitative data obtained through ethnographic fieldwork, nonparticipating observing with interaction at work, which includes observing employed individuals in their workplaces. …”
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Newly discovered Late Bronze Age settlement in the vicinity of Kamenovo, Kubrat municipality, northeastern Bulgariа: preliminary results by Petar Minkov, Zheni Vasileva, Denitsa Sandeva, Yana Dimitrova, Stanimira Taneva, Plamen Georgiev, Nikola Tonkov, Hristo Popov

“…Its identification as promising for future more detailed fieldwork led to the successive implementation of large-scale geomagnetic surveys and the first regular excavations in 2023. …”
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Promotion Policies of Social Economy in Argentina: An Approximation from the Knowledge of Experts by Eliana Lijterman

“…This work is based on an extensive archival analysis that compiles a heterogeneity of ministerial documents and specialized fieldwork.…”
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Mission en temps de guerre : Alfred Métraux dans le Pilcomayo by Lorena I. Córdoba

“…The peculiar sociopolitical circumstances that encompassed Métraux’s fieldwork are detailed: the logistical problems due to the feeble economic situation of University of Tucumán, the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932-1935), the inescapable relationship with the Anglican settlements of the South American Missionary Society and the tense situation on the national frontier between Argentina and Paraguay. …”
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The use of photo-elicitation in field research by Elisa Bignante

“…Results and methodological insights from the fieldwork are presented and discussed.…”
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The use of Amazigh identities in tourism development projects. Interconnectedness and embeddedness dynamics in the Moroccan mountains by Mari Oiry-Varacca

“…This paper is the result of fieldwork carried out in the Western High Atlas and Anti-Atlas regions.…”
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Culture and tourism? Limits and potential of sustainable tourist development in Gorée, Senegal and Ilha de Moçambique, Mozambique by Elisa Magnani

“…The article presents the results of two fieldwork missions on the islands conducted by the Author, aimed at showing the weaknesses and strengths of the actual tourist management.…”
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Dépaysement d’une géographe by Violaine Jolivet

“…The concept is often discussed, to evoke, for example, fieldwork or geographies of mobility such as tourism. …”
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Technologies of the Anthropocene by Milligan Tony, Springer Lena

“…It is then qualified by appeal to the contrasting case of botanical fieldwork, where a sense of working with the non-human also holds.…”
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Après le boom : la laborieuse mise en œuvre de nouvelles régulations dans le secteur minier guinéen by Johannes Knierzinger

“…Since 2003, after a long period of liberalization, more than a dozen African countries have adopted new mining codes which distinguish themselves markedly from their liberal predecessors. Drawing on fieldwork in Guinea, the article retraces the different stages of the implementation process of such a “progressive” mining code, including its modification in 2013 due to the pressure of the mining industry, the adoption of application texts and the adaption of mining contracts, and the introduction of new practises and their supervision in and around the mines.…”
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From Internal Migration to International Migration in Mexico. Notes on the Formation of a Field of Study by Liliana Rivera Sánchez

“…This article offers a panoramic view of Mexico regarding some of its contributions in studies about internal migration to the fieldwork of international migration. Specifically, the contributions of this field to studies on migration between Mexico and the United States of America are reviewed. …”
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Pilgrimage and Pilgrim Hierarchies in Vernacular Discourse: Comparative Notes from the Camino de Santiago and Glastonbury by Tiina Sepp

“…This article is based on my fieldwork conducted in two important destinations in the spiritual landscape of European vernacular religion – the Camino de Santiago (pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela) in northern Spain, and Glastonbury in southwest England. …”
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Suspendre le sens, admettre l’accident : une approche sémiotique de la planification urbaine by Lucile Berthomé

“…In this perspective, we will draw on fieldwork (cognitive mapping, semio-discursive analysis, qualitative interviews) carried out on two Bordeaux-based initiatives: the Sentier des Terres Communes, a peri-urban walking trail, and Darwin Écosystème, an urban common.…”
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Genre et migrations by Nadia Ouabdelmoumen

“…At a time when individualised and contractualised monitoring processes have been increasingly used to promote individualised autonomy/empowerment mechanisms, this fieldwork study, settled in a training organisation authorised to deliver the linguistic training of the CAI in Rennes, describes how these offered-required trainings reveal a form of injunction to autonomy, that is primarily directed at women trainees, through the practice of French. …”
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Les migrants de Beyrouth by Agnès Deboulet, Marie-Antoinette Hily

“…Many try to join the mixed, full of conflicts environment of peripheral districts, in which it is easier to find housing. Using fieldwork they have been conducting in the Borj-Hamoud suburb, in the east of Beirut, and Jnah and Ouzaï, in the south, the authors describe migratory situations which, although they cannot be applied generally, are nevertheless a good example of the place held by these immigrant…”
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Expulsionscapes. Logics of Expulsion and Economies of Eviction in Milan (Italy) by Giacomo Pozzi

“…In the third section, I present several case studies investigated during my fieldwork to illustrate four «logics of expulsion» that pave the way for understanding the richness of each «local place» as part of a globally encompassing phenomenon which, borrowing from Appadurai, I have defined as expulsionscape.…”
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