The activities of Soviet intelligence service among Russian emigration in post-war Northern China (according to the memoirs of N. A. Martynov) by M. V. Krotova

“…The methodological basis of the work is the anthropological approach and the principle of consistency. …”
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Tirando del hilo desde el Gran Chaco: significación y alcance del estudio de las figuras de hilo tradicionales by José Braunstein

“…The main aim of the article is to exhibit the general aspects of the handicraft, its meaning for culture and the scope of its study for anthropological sciences. On the basis of the author’s ethnographic experience of more than half a century in the South American Gran Chaco, it shows the development of a line of research that, from Marcel Mauss’ definition of “body techniques,” proposes a method to advance in the phylogenetic understanding of human societies.…”
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A different story of modern economic science by Oreste Bazzichi, Fabio Reali

“…The age of the Late Middle Ages in Europe laid the foundations of modern economic science, giving impulse to quite singular reflections gathered from the interpretation of reality, in a typically «Franciscan» key, grasping in the fraternity (franciscan fraternitas) the anthropological and ontological element for the good living in the communitas and for the integral sustainability, therefore, valid also for the economy. …”
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Au cœur du debaa by Elena Bertuzzi

“…In 2015, while I was in Mayotte writing an anthropological thesis on the debaa (Sufi-inspired chants and dances performed exclusively by women), I had the opportunity to create a multimedia installation that allowed me to present the data collected on this practice. …”
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Les Représentations savantes des usagers dans la collection « L’Architecture rurale française » : l’exemple du Dauphiné by Frédéric Firreri

“…By revealing the underlying narrative structures of the scientific analysis carried out by Henri Raulin on the first volume published, Dauphiné, this article attempts both to shed light on the processes that constructed a learned representation of popular architecture, and to highlight the disciplinary and institutional mechanisms that enabled the emergence of an anthropological theory of architecture.…”
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Sociologia e a esfera cultural contemporânea by Edson Silva de Farias

“…Therefore, it not only impacts the overall shape, content and dynamics of the cultural sphere, but it equally triggers reflective waves aiming at modes of cognition and socio-anthropological analytical inference procedures concerned with symbolization processes in production and use of cultural goods.…”
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Bureacrats and Colonos: State Formation in Southeastern Colombia by Sandra Patricia Martínez Basallo

“…From an anthropological approach to the study of the state, the article discusses the process of local state formation in southeastern Colombia from the analysis of the interactions arising between officials and beneficiaries of agricultural policies implemented in this region between 1960 and 1980. …”
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Interesting new publications by Marie-Louise Karttunen

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From the Reindeer Path to the Highway and Back – Understanding the Movements of Khanty Reindeer Herders in Western Siberia by Stephan Dudeck

“…The article examines their emic point of view opposed to the evaluation of the state administration. Anthropological research can access the mobility of people in two ways. …”
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Il Cilento ‘fuori di sé’. Crisi e conflitti psicologici, sociali e culturali in un’emigrazione dal Sud Italia verso altri continenti (fine ‘800-‘900) by Domenico Ienna

“…This anthropological research - connected to individual/collective criticalities and conflicts which interested the migratory movement from Cilento (Salerno) towards other continents (end '800-'900) - is planning to investigate the umpteenth challenge to which was called a southern culture which was, in the course of the centuries, on the fringe of society, also exhausted from serious difficulties. …”
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Des lémuriens et des hommes : mythes, représentations et pratiques à Madagascar by Claire Harpet

“…Some traditionsare underminingtheir existence;others on the contrarycontribute totheir preservation.Thepresent article proposesreading anthropological relationshipsof men andlemursin Madagascar tothe test of timeand theglobalizing world.…”
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La merce-dono. Etnografia della Vendita: promozioni, omaggi, fiducia by Gianluca Mantoani

“…It is therefore a source of information about social dynamics, an anthropological source, who must be understood on the field. …”
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Book review: Maya Mayblin. Gender, Catholicism, and Morality in Brazil: Virtuous Husbands, Powerful Wives by Ryan Schram

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Book review: David W. Westbrook. Navigators of the Contemporary: Why Ethnography Matters by Edward Dutton

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Book review: Jessica K. Taft. Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change across the Americas by Laura Lyytikäinen

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Book review: Chris Coulter. Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Womens Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone . by Toomas Gross

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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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Mediare conflitti o resistere alla crisi? Servizio civile all’estero, tra “Obiezione di coscienza” e “Garanzia giovani” by Sebastiano Miele

“…Special attention is devoted to a sort of anthropological dimension that seems positively characterize this experience in recent years.…”
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Parler de générosité dans la mission contemporaine by Marie-Hélène Robert

“…This reflexion crosses the anthropological, spiritual and biblical dimensions of the notion to answer these questions, beginning by avoiding the pitfalls of generosity. …”
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«Omsk group» in exile in Manchuria by M. V. Krotova

“…Based on the theory of social adaptation and the anthropological approach, the article focuses on such aspects of the biography of this category of figures as behavioral strategies, service on the Chinese Eastern Railway, and the choice of citizenship. …”
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