Data Collecting and Research of Folk Medicine in Estonia During the Soviet Era by Ave Tupits

“…Still, the respective data has always been on the folklorists’ work-list, when publishing questionnaires or going out on fieldwork. It has to be taken into consideration that the times were hard for folkloristics both during the Soviet occupation in 1940–1941 and the German occupation in 1941–1944. …”
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Socio-spatial visualisations of cultural routes by Catherine Emma (Kate) Jones, Marta Severo, Daniele Guido

“…Indeed, the availability of new digital traces generated by human activities and social media combined with tools that facilitate the exploration of such traces allow researchers to create new types of fieldwork online. In this paper, we present a case study focused on the Via Francigena cultural route. …”
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Mutations récentes, dynamiques actuelles et perspectives de transition des territoires ruraux périurbains en Tunisie by Nasser Rebaï, Johan Desbonnet, Hédi Rebei

“…To do so, it draws on the results of a fieldwork carried out in Mahrès, on the outskirts of Sfax, second largest Tunisian city, where interviews were conducted with the agricultural services and farmers. …”
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Virtual Reality in China: Is There a Sustainable Business Model for Virtual Reality Content Enterprises? by Shan Yu

“…Research with Chinese VR content enterprises provides an opportunity to rethink many of the opportunities and challenges confronting Chinese VR content creators as they seek to implement this disruptive technology to engage consumers and adapt to the huge market in the future. Based on fieldwork research for these two case studies, exploring the dynamics and initiatives in the process of VR content production in China, the article finds that the need for specific and sustainable business models for VR enterprises represents a significant challenge. …”
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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

“…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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D’infimes différences. Pratique et circulation des jeux de ficelle chez les femmes du Chaco paraguayen by David Jabin

“…Originally, within the framework of the diffusionist paradigm, the aim was to look for similarities, as clues to technical borrowings that could help to understand contacts between human groups. Based on fieldwork carried out in the central Paraguayan Chaco, where indigenous people live in agricultural settlements established by the Mennonites to implement intensive agriculture, the author compares the string figure making of Nivacle and Enlhet women in two neighboring communities. …”
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Legal Guerilla: Jurisdiction, Time, and Abortion Access in Mexico City by Amy Krauss

“…Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico City, the author explores how competing jurisdictions create ambiguous spaces and temporalities of inclusion and exclusion from legality and clinical care. …”
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Introduction: Views from the Shoreline: Community, Trade and Religion in Coastal Yorubaland and the Western Niger Delta by Insa Nolte, Olukoya Ogen

“…Introducing the 19 articles in this Special Issue, which cover the coastal stretch from Ikorodu (near Lagos) to Ore-Isi (Urhoboland) and Benin, the article maps out how the coast’s lack of centralization, its complex settlement histories, and its underrepresentation in government and mainstream mission archives may be addressed by using multi-methods approaches and in-depth fieldwork. It emphasizes both the high mobility and heterogeneity of coastal communities and illustrates the diverse ways in which local leaders have mobilized a range of resources – including Islam, traditional practice, and especially Christianity – to ensure individual wellbeing and to affirm or re-shape local boundaries and hierarchies. …”
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L’inattendu du terrain by Claire Vidal

“…Through an analysis of the unexpected reversal in the relationship that I established with them—initially perceiving them as colleagues only to later discover fieldwork interlocutors in them—I show how their role within the academy is increasingly mobilised by the clerics to conceive the future of Putuoshan.…”
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Cultural revitalization for tourism development from an Indigenous perspective: the case of Ta Oi people, A Luoi District, Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam by Thu-Suong Thi Nguyen, Diem-Huong Thi Phan, Diem-Huong Thi Phan, Diem-Hang Le Doan, Diem-Hang Le Doan, Minh-Ngoc Thi Chau, Thanh-Thuy Thi (Jessica) Doan, Thanh-Thuy Thi (Jessica) Doan

“…Fieldwork and participation observations allow to capture information about the research area as well as the experiences and behaviors of the local community. …”
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Gendering Justice in the Chilean Courts: Institutional Developments and Legal Actors’ Perspectives by Karime Parodi

“…Drawing on interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and analysis of court rulings, the study identifies four ways in which judges understand a “gendered perspective”: as a method to detect stereotypes, a tool to analyze context, an instrument to reach a fair result, and a rejection of the notion of loosening evidentiary standards. …”
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Vite in pezzi, corpi integri. Geografie sociali della migrazione e della homelessness a Roma Termini by Silvia Antinori

“…The territory of Roma Termini, the capital’s central station, is an area innervated by a plurality of social margins “inhabited” in increasing numbers by different populations. Based on fieldwork research, this paper looks at this place from the perspective of homeless migrant people who pass through it. …”
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“The Biggest Small Town in America”: Cross-generational Patterns of Monophthongization in the Suburban South by Marc-Philippe Brunet

“…This investigation was conducted in the theoretical and methodological framework of the PAC Programme (Phonology of Contemporary English: usage, varieties and structure) and within the LVTI Project (Language, Urban Life, Work, Identity), based on recent sociolinguistic fieldwork data obtained in Middle Tennessee. The results show that varying degrees of Southern speech can index a sense of rootedness and attachment to a perceived vanishing American South.…”
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Move, eat, sleep, repeat: Living by rhythm with proactive self-tracking technologies by Vigren Minna, Bergroth Harley

“…We employ a collaborative autoethnographical approach and engage with both of our personal fieldwork experiences in living with self-tracking devices. …”
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SOME IDEAS ABOUT JAR-REBURIAL CUSTOM OF TAY, HOA, NUNG, THAI INHABITANTS IN LIENNGHIA TOWN, DUCTRONG DISTRICT, LAMDONG PROVINCE, VIETNAM by Cao Thế Trình

“…Based on the fieldwork data in Liennghia town by the author and documents on the Internet about the Zhuang and Hakka ethnic groups in South-East China, the author argues that the jar reburial custom practiced today by the Tay, Hoa, Nung, and Thai in Liennghia town, Ductrong district, Lamdong province, Vietnam is an inherited tradition from their old homeland in South-East China. …”
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Dynamiques identitaires anciennes et actuelles chez les Aché du Paraguay oriental : éléments de compréhension by Philippe Edeb Piragi

“…Keys to understanding ancient and current identity dynamics among the Ache of Eastern Paraguay. Based on fieldwork begun in 1986, the author analyses the driving forces behind Aché self-assertion, exploring the conceptions of self and other of this Eastern Paraguayan group of tupi speakers who have repeatedly and successfully resisted assimilation by the Guarani. …”
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PLURALISME ASIMETRIS: PLURALITAS DAN GERAKAN SOSIAL MASYARAKAT INDONESIA KONTEMPORER by Muhammad Abzar Duraesa, Muzayyin Ahyar

“…This study aims to look at the diversity condition of Indonesian society related to the discourse of pluralism. Based on the fieldwork conducted from several regions in Indonesia; Samarinda, Manado, and Jakarta which is considered as representative regions in term of its dynamic diversity, by using a socio-political approach, the results of this study show that the condition of diversity in Indonesian society constitutes an asymmetrical discourse of pluralism; a plurality based on social conditions and phenomena that differ from one region to another, one community to another, and one case to another. …”
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The Body in New Age from the Perspective of the Subtle Body: The Example of the Source Breathwork Community by Katre Koppel

“…The concept of the subtle body as a scholarly tool is applied in the analysis of fieldwork data collected between 2011 and 2013 in Estonia. …”
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“Helt Texas, Morgan Kane!”: Notes on the Pedagogies of Finding, Documenting, and Teaching the American West in Norwegian Backyards by Stefan Rabitsch

“…They conducted cultural geography fieldwork with a view to generating generation-specific content in the form of short video reels. …”
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Environmental Archaeology and Heritage in Dakhla Oasis, Egypt by Karin Kindermann, Richard Bussmann

“…The Cologne Summer School (CSS), ‘Environmental archaeology: dealing with cultural and natural heritage’, organised in Dakhla Oasis (Egypt) in September 2023, brought Egyptian and German students, archaeologists and heritage professionals together to discuss how heritage management, the protection of the landscape and archaeological fieldwork can be integrated meaningfully in the region. …”
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