Two anthropologists recall Dominique Buchillet by Janet Chernela, Jaime Diakara Dessano Dihpotiro

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Professioni non organizzate. Analizzando una legge in merito al ruolo degli antropologi by Fiorella Giacalone

Subjects: “…professional anthropologist…”
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«What the hell am I doin’ here? I don’t belong here!»..L’antropologa nei contesti di asilo/accoglienza tra marginalità, fraintendimenti, negoziazioni e non-intenzionalità. Riflessi... by Silvia Pitzalis

“…Through the exposition of a professional experience within the asylum/reception system, I will show how, although significant, this openness can lead to real epistemological, deontological, and methodological pitfalls that go beyond the anthropologist's intentions.…”
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Channels of Iranian pastoral nomads on the YouTube network: Video narratives of the life of the Lori (Lur) Bakhtiari tribal people and ethnic group by Gorunović Gordana

“…The main question underlying the research is what an anthropologist as a viewer and an impartial bystander can learn from these amateur videoformats, which can be included in the genre of domestic folk films about the daily life and customs of the pastoral, partially sedentarized, (semi)nomads in southwest Iran. …”
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Prendersi ‘gentilmente’ sul serio. Un’intima curvatura riflessiva sull’etnografia nella lotta e la co-costruzione di intenzionalità sul campo by Sabina Tosi Cambini

“…This contribution applies a reflexive approach to my diversified fieldworks carried out in some contexts that policies, social sciences and civil society call ‘marginal’ – albeit moved by very different perspectives and intentions –, bringing out the demand of people towards the anthropologist to be able to develop a ‘gentle’ relationship, capable of ‘culturally’ taking into account their biographies and their social ‘position’ without trapping them either in the first or in the second; and, therefore, investigating the meso and macro structural aspects of this positioning as well as their search for a 'good life'. …”
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Cartografie implicite e mappe di comunità: per una diversa classificazione dei Beni culturali by Vincenzo Esposito

“…This article is about: Cultural anthropology, issues of power and definition of Cultural Heritage; religious rituals as spontaneous maps, implicit to local cultural contexts; «Parish maps» as local tool to survey and describe the cultural heritage of the area; role of the anthropologist and work with informants. …”
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Memórias manchadas e ruínas memoriais em A mancha e “O condomínio”, de Luis Fernando Veríssimo by Leila Lehnen

“…This article proposes that what it calls “schizophrenic memory sites” – places that are constructed as palimpsests of various (and, at times, contradictory) versions of the past – are connected with what anthropologist James Hoslton (2008) denominates “differentiated citizenship”. …”
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Alfred Métraux y la utopía del Gran Chaco by Federico Bossert

“…In light of this biographical context, the article discusses the unrelenting place of the Chaco as an object of ethnological interest for Metraux from his first field trip (1922) to his final ethnographic project (1963), and explores the impact of his relationship with Swedish anthropologist Erland Nordenskiöld.…”
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Le zbeul by Sarah Carton de Grammont

“…When one is an ethnographer-anthropologist, one cannot write ethnographies on everything, everywhere, all the time. …”
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Eco-anthropologie et primatologie pour la conservation de la biodiversité : un projet collaboratif dans le Parc National de Moukalaba-Doudou, Gabon by Naoki Matsuura, Yuji Takenoshita, Juichi Yamagiwa

“…On the other hand, the ecological anthropologist illustrates relationships between local people and wildlife and deals with the local perception of animals. …”
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Le rappeur et les « petites grand-mères » by Teresa Fradique

“…Propositions from certain texts and concepts of Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Velho serve as a foundation for exploring the idea of a cosmopolitanism detached from its binary opposition with provincialism. …”
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Position multisituée et récursivité by Anne-Christine Trémon

“…This article thus ends up reflecting on how the anthropologist’s position in the field can result in displacements of the context of the subject of study.…”
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Gender, race, and life writing in the ethnography of Ruth Landes in Bahia by Sally Cole

“…American anthropologist Ruth Landes (1908-1991) conducted ethnographic fieldwork in candomblé centers, terreiros, in Salvador, Bahia, in 1938-1939. …”
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Language documentation and revitalization among the Siona of the Putumayo, Colombia: the potential of digitization for the social life of ethnographic material by Esther Jean Langdon

“…Finally, the paper examines the differences between indigenous expectations of audio recordings and those of the anthropologist, indicating that digitization fixes, decontextualizes and recontextualizes oral literature within the current political context in which indigenous peoples seek to identify cultural patrimony in defense of their rights.…”
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In conversation: photographic curatorship and photographic cultures in museums and research institutions by Elizabeth Edwards, Costanza Caraffa, Ruth Quinn

“…As a historical and visual anthropologist, and former Curator of Photographs at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Professor Elizabeth Edwards has transformed perceptions of photographs as material objects. …”
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Oltre l’intenzione. Etnografia urbana, lavoro sul campo e progettazione territoriale by Paolo Grassi

“…The relationship established by ethnography develops a bond between anthropologists and interlocutors capable, under certain circumstances, of producing change. …”
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The Pala’wan Highlanders and the World they live in: “A Weaving of Golden Threads” by Nicole Revel

“…Nicole Revel, Emeritus senior researcher at CNRS, Doctor Honoris causa (Humanities) Ateneo de Manila University, Linguist and anthropologist, works since 1970 in the Philippines. In collaboration with the Palawan Highlanders she described their language (1979) and their knowledge about Nature (1990-92). …”
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« Jules Crevaux, l’explorateur aux pieds nus ». Un mythe géographique amazonien by Emmanuel Lézy

“…This structures give an unexpected confirmation of the efficiency of the anthropologist’s analyses.…”
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La santé sexuelle et reproductive en Tunisie. Institutions médicales, lois et itinéraires thérapeutiques des femmes après la révolution by Irene Maffi, Malika Affes

“…In this article, written in the form of an interview, Malika Affes, midwife in charge of one of the family planning units of La Rabta Hospital in Tunis, and Irene Maffi, anthropologist, discuss sexual and reproductive health in Tunisia. …”
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Protocole d’errance d’une forme by Francesca Cozzolino, Coralie Maurin, Kristina Solomoukha

“…This text looks back at the developmental stages of an animated short film that grew out of image-based research into Zapatista iconography, grounded in an ethnographic investigation in Chiapas. Designed by an anthropologist, an artist, and a filmmaker, this audio-visual narrative is built like a virtual trip through different groups of images in which different variants of the caracol are shown—a motif that, ranging from the representation of the snail shell to the spiral, embodies both the Maya past and the Zapatista ideals of the present. …”
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