De l’incident de terrain à l’écriture de l’évocation by Claire Vionnet

“…A brief history of the benefits of the crisis of representation (Writing Culture) is followed by hints on concepts of autoethnography, sensorial anthropology, and anthropology through the body. Drawing on a fieldwork on contemporary dance, the anthropologist highlights how a phenomenological description of dance can expand choreographers’ questions that might be raised within the dance studio. …”
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O multiverso predatório dos deuses canibais: o legado de Joanna Overing by Els Lagrou, Luisa Elvira Belaunde

“…In this sense, we propose a brief intellectual biography of an American anthropologist born in 1938 who did fieldwork in Venezuela, taught in the United States, England and Scotland, weaved interdisciplinary dialogues between philosophy, linguistics and anthropology and stimulated exchanges between ethnology carried out in England, France, Scandinavia and Brazil. …”
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Le domaine de Voisins (1892-2008) : essai de définition d’un lieu hors temps by Caroline Scotto

“…This article presents a research – on a historical and fieldwork perspective – conducted in the frame of the Master 2 of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles on the Estate of Voisins. …”
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Patrimoine juif, pouvoir marocain by Chiara Lutteri

“…This fieldwork was conducted mainly in Casablanca and Essaouira, cities that host two museums dedicated to Judaism. …”
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Conservation and ecological screening of small water bodies in temperate riverine wetlands using UAV Photogrammetry (Middle Danube) by Dušanka Cvijanović, Maja Novković, Djuradj Milošević, Milica Stojković Piperac, Laszlo Galambos, Dubravka Čerba, Olivera Stamenković, Bojan Damnjanović, Minučer Mesaroš, Dragoslav Pavić, Vladica Simić, Ivana Trbojević, Ana Anđelković, Nusret Drešković, Barbara Stammel, Bernd Cyffka, Snežana Radulović

“…Macrophyte cover metrics obtained during the fieldwork and UAV data processing were correlated against water quality parameters and conservation indices calculated for fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages. …”
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Remote Mapping of Bedrock for Future Cosmogenic Nuclide Exposure Dating Studies in Unvisited Areas of Antarctica by Jonathan R. Adams, Philippa J. Mason, Stephen J. Roberts, Dylan H. Rood, John L. Smellie, Keir A. Nichols, John Woodward, Joanne S. Johnson

“…Many of the most commonly applied cosmogenic nuclides are extracted from the mineral quartz, meaning sampling of felsic (silica-rich) rock is often preferred to sampling of mafic (silica-poor) rock for exposure dating studies. Fieldwork in remote regions such as Antarctica is subject to time constraints and considerable logistical challenges, making efficient sample recovery critical to successful research efforts. …”
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Développement agricole et gouvernance foncière à Tioroniaradougou (Nord de la Côte d’Ivoire) by Jérôme Aloko-N’guessan, Marthe Adjoba Koffi-Didia, Hamed Tiécoura Coulibaly

“…The approach adopted is based on bibliographic research and fieldwork. The results show that the agricultural development of the soil is linked to the growth of cash crops such as cotton, cashew nuts and mangoes. …”
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The problem of the lack of archaeological findings, based on the example of Šibeničná hora hill in Stará Ľubovňa. An example of lost potential heritage by Maciej Wawrzczak, Zuzana Kasenčáková

“…This town has archaeological sites that date back to prehistory and archaeological findings provide an opportunity to implement pre-investment rescue fieldwork. However, when locations in the given area are not identified, unlimited construction work can take place. …”
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Ethnographie des pratiques légales autour de la revendication des droits fonciers chez les groupes pastoraux de l’État de Khartoum by Barbara Casciarri

“…Based on a long term anthropological fieldwork, this article focuses on the legal practices used by a pastoral group in the rural area of Khartoum State (Sudan), the Aḥāmda, in order to face the attacks against their land rights. …”
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Drunkards and Singers: A Mongolian Battle of Sounds by Laurent Legrain

“…When I conducted fieldwork among the Darhad of northern Mongolia my informants repeatedly asserted that after a good singer’s performance even the most badly intoxicated lad stands still and keeps silent. …”
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THE IMPACT OF PROTESTANTISM ON THE ECONOMY OF THE COHO CHIL PEOPLE IN LAM DONG PROVINCE by Minh Nhat Mai, Thi Hien Tran

“…This study examines the relationship between Protestantism and the Coho Chil economy using qualitative methods to analyze data from fieldwork in the Coho Chil Protestant communities of Lam Dong Province. …”
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The Postpartum Tradition of <i>Sawa Mahina</i> in Rural Punjab, Pakistan by Azher Hameed Qamar

“…During six months of fieldwork, using participant observation and unstructured interviews as primary research methods, the study explored the prevalent postpartum tradition from a childcare perspective. …”
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Ampliando la comprensión de la pobreza energética desde el enfoque de capacidades: hacia una mirada construida desde las personas afectadas by Victoria Pellicer-Sifres

“…To do this, using the capability approach and a qualitative fieldwork, we propose a conceptual framework to rethink and redefine the phenomenon, in order to: i) link the problem with social justice and with vulnerability; ii) broaden the spectrum of causes and link them with personal, social, environmental and structural issues; iii) understand the consequences as the deprivation of a series of capabilities, operations and agency that prevent people from living the life they value. …”
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Gaining a foothold in the world “for a better life”. Encounters between inhabitants and tourists in Lalibela (Ethiopia), a small World Heritage town by Marie Bridonneau

“…This article presents some reflections on encounters between international tourists and local society, based on fieldwork carried out between 2009 and 2011 in Lalibela, a small heritage and tourist town in northern Ethiopia. …”
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Être ethnologue au Yunnan by Aurélie Névot

“…The ethnologist’s intellectual journey is based on relations established with their informants, relations that also undergo change, influenced by the fieldwork or mirroring it, and conditioning the ethnologist’s understanding of the thought logic at play in what they observe. …”
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Of Trips and Drifts: Anthropological Groove and Nightlife as an Ethnographic Space by Gustavo Blázquez, Agustín Liarte Tiloca

“…Then, we discuss the issue of situationist drift during fieldwork. Subsequently, drawing on vignettes taken from our ethnographies, we reflect on the potential and limitations of “participant observation” in situations involving significant bodily exposure and sensory experimentation, including illegal activities. …”
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« Au-delà d’un simple divertissement » : les effets symboliques de la pratique des jeux de ficelle chez les Inuit by Céline Petit

“…Building both on the study of classical ethnography relating to different groups of the “Inuit area,” and on fieldwork carried out in Inuit communities of the eastern Canadian Arctic in the 2000s-2010s, this paper examines the forms of the ritual or symbolic efficacy ascribed to string figure-making in pre-Christian Inuit societies. …”
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Tourism and "eco-ethnicity": the challenges of environmental soft power for minorities in highland Asia (China, Laos, Nepal) by Frédéric Landy, Raghubir Chand, Steve Déry, Pierre Dérioz, Olivier Ducourtieux, Nadège Garambois, Evelyne Gauche, Marie-Anne Germaine, Lisa Hiwasaki, Mauve Letang, Isabelle Sacareau

“…The paper is based on qualitative fieldwork research comparing three highland case studies in Nepal (Annapurna), China (Guizhou) and Laos (Louang Namtha). …”
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Chimen an nou, une carte contributive pour se rapprocher du territoire by Bertilla Baudinière, Jeanne Lacour

“…A contributory digital tool was combined with fieldwork and public events to disseminate sensory knowledge of the territory and invite people to experiment with new ways of getting around. …”
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Wenjing Guo, Internet à Canton (Chine) – Dynamiques sociales et politiques by Wenjing Guo

“…This anthropological research focuses on this permanent confrontation from the formation process and evolution of active social groups on the Internet, who exist thanks to and because of the Internet. The fieldwork centered on three groups around specific issues (homosexuality, environmental protection, cultural heritage protection) in the city of Guangzhou. …”
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