Sowing the Seeds of Faith: A Case Study of an American Missionary in the Russian North by Piret Koosa

“…The present article aims to examine some aspects of the development of this relatively new religious diversity at the grass-roots level by analysing the role of an American missionary in forming an evangelical congregation in a small rural community in the Republic of Komi. Drawing on fieldwork materials, I intend to discuss both the missionary’s perspective and the local response to his presence.…”
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La fabrique des reliques. Manipulations et production de sacré dans la clôture by Francesca Sbardella

“…On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork which was conducted among some Carmelite and Augustinian monastic groups (in France and in Italy), the aim of the present paper is to investigate the nature of relic-objects from an anthropological perspective. …”
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Grappling With Complexity in Research with the Military Police The Far-Right and Anthropology’s Civilizing Mission by Tomás Salem

“…Abstract: This text examines the challenges of carrying out fieldwork with the Military Police, an institution responsible for systematically targeting Rio de Janeiro’s favela populations with extreme levels of racialized state violence. …”
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Oltre l’intenzione. Etnografia urbana, lavoro sul campo e progettazione territoriale by Paolo Grassi

“…On the basis of five years of fieldwork as a member of an interdisciplinary action-research group, in this article I will try to “ground” such considerations, outlining a figure that is, so to speak, “spurious”, i.e. in close contact with other professions and fields of knowledge. …”
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THE IMPACT OF NATURE ON THE LIFESTYLE OF DALAT PEOPLE by Trần Thị Hiền

“…Based on the fieldwork data and some relevant studies, the article analyzes the impact of nature on forming the lifestyle of Dalat people. …”
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Les paysages linguistiques au Cambodge : réglementation, description et utilité pour l’enseignement du khmer by Sitha Seng, Vutha Um, Isabelle Léglise, Suat Istanbullu, Dara Non

“…As part of a joint research project involving Cambodian and French teams, we examined the linguistic landscapes of the town of Siem Reap, where we carried out joint fieldwork in 2022. This paper presents the first observations we made, based on a study of the regulations concerning public displays on the one hand and on the scriptural practices on the other. …”
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Integracion, valors e valorizacion dins la transmission de l’occitan en Calandreta by Grégoire Andreo Raynaud

“…This article presents the most significant results of a study of linguistic policies in the Occitan domain based on a fieldwork conducted in the Calandretas association schools in three Occitan cities. …”
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La méthode des itinéraires photographiques : une ethnographie visuelle des mondes ouvriers de la logistique by Cecile Cuny, Hortense Soichet, Nathalie Mohadjer

“…One of the aim was to turn fieldwork into a source of knowledge and creation. …”
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Café turc ou cappuccino ? Pratiques de loisirs et distinction sociale dans les cafés cairotes by Florian Bonnefoi

“…Leaning on a two years long ethnographic fieldwork, this article shows how coffeehouses while being often criticized as places of idleness embody social distinction in Cairo.…”
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Le déploiement d’un Système d’Information pour la coordination gérontologique de proximité dans le Haut-Rhin : une expérience encore perfectible by Christophe Humbert

“…Institutional rigidities remained throughout our fieldwork. The IS is thus an analyzer of the power relations between actors at the departmental level, as well as a catalyst for much more modest changes than those postulated, which were already in progress.…”
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Lengua y artefactos en la etnografía wichí de Alfred Métraux by Rodrigo Montani

“…This is precisely why an edited and translated version of the myth of « Woodpecker and the daughter of Sun », which Métraux collected during his fieldwork and left unpublished in his field notebooks alongside others stories, is presented. …”
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Exú's Work – The Agency of Ritual Objects in Southeast Brazilian Umbanda by Eleonora A. Lundell

“…It is based on an eleven-month fieldwork among devotees, clients and individual practitioners of Umbanda in Southeast Brazilian metropolises, especially in São Paulo. …”
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La etnología chiriguano de Alfred Métraux by Federico Bossert, Diego Villar

“…We pursue our analysis across diverse aspects of Métraux’s work, including: his treatment of religion and prophetism among the Tupinamba; his participation in the pioneer project that created the Ethnology Institute in Tucuman; the manifestation of ideology, inherited prejudice and esthetic values in his gathering of material culture collections; the singularities of Métraux’s fieldwork and its impact on his relationship with the Chiriguano; his thesis that Chiriguano pottery reflected particular mixtures of Andean, Chaco and Amazonian influences; and, finally, the significant link he found between mythic symbolism and the feminine universe.…”
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La rivière Magpie-Mutehekau shipu en personne by Fabienne Joliet, Azou Joliet-Bidet

“…This case study is illuminated by the fieldwork and stories collected.…”
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Afrocantharellus gen. stat. nov. is part of a rich diversity of African Cantharellaceae by D.D. Tibuhwa, S. Savić, L. Tibell, A.K. Kivaisi

“…It was previously recognized as a subgenus, but comprehensive fieldwork and the acquisition of numerous sequences for previously neglected African Cantharellus species formed the basis for a reappraisal of generic and species delimitations. …”
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Palace Courtyards in Iléṣà: A Melting Point of Traditional Yorùbá Architecture by Stephen Fọlárànmí, Babásẹhìndè Adémúlẹyá

“…This paper examines the courtyards in the palace of certain chiefs and Ọwá Obòkun in Iléṣà, in southwest Nigeria. Fieldwork identified about ten courtyards in the palace of the Ọwá, four in the Rísàwè palace, and two in the palaces of the Léjọkà and Ọdọlé of Iléṣà. …”
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The Displacement of the Possible: Popular Experience and Gentrification at Historic Center of Mexico City by Vicente Moctezuma Mendoza

“…Particularly, it analyzes a form of displacement that the author defines as ‘the displacement in popular horizons of the possible’, and supposes a reinterpretation – from the characteristics of the gentrification processes in Latin America and the anthropologic fieldwork- of the definition of ‘exclusionary displacement’ proposed by Peter Marcuse. …”
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Political Practices of the Popular Sectors in Río de Janeiro: Urbanization of the Favela Santa Marta by Maximiliano Duarte Acquistapace

“…This article analyzes the political practices of the residents of the favelas of Río de Janeiro through ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2010 and 2015 in the favela of Santa Marta. …”
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Ritual, Power and Historical Perspective: Baptism and Name-giving in Lithuania and Latvia by Rasa Paukštytė-Šaknienė

“…As indicated by scholars investigating into Soviet rituals and by my fieldwork data collected in 1999 in Northeast Lithuania and in 1998 in Southeast Latvia, the mission of creating communist traditions has not always been successful. …”
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On Some Aspects of the Lilleoru Community by Kaidi Tamm

“…Exceptional in the Estonian context, this relatively small and young community is a member of three established international networks uniting similar communities. 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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