Umiliati e obesi by Marino Niola

“…Thanks to the historical-anthropological genealogy of the lexicon and the semantic field referring to obesity, Niola shows how a collective obesophobia is progressively developing and strengthening. …”
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How and why to study mountains: topics and types of research between limits and opportunities by Laura Bonato

“… Field practice in a neighbouring ethnographic context – both culturally and geographically –, of which the researcher is a part, entails specific difficulties, epistemological and practical problems quite different from those faced by classical anthropology. Based on the experience gained in three different projects involving the western Alpine arc over the last decade, we intend to highlight the fact that in some contexts it is appropriate to prefer ‘peripheral’ anthropological research, less localised and based on shorter stays. …”
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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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Figurine Embodiment and Household Ritual in an Early Mixtec Village by Nathan J. Meissner, Katherine E. South, Andrew K. Balkansky

“…The archaeological contexts at Tayata allow for an integrated application of embodiment theory with cross-field anthropological data, and reveal a deep-seated Mixtec worldview concerning the animism of corporeal objects.…”
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Women and Kula by Susanne Kuehling

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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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Cosmopolitisme au pluriel by Alessandra Siqueira Barreto, Rogéria Campos de Almeida Dutra

“…This article considers the question of cosmopolitanism in the contemporary world, stressing the anthropological perspective and situating forms and practices of coexistence relations between people from different backgrounds through the cultural and political mediation developed by a Brazilian religious leader on European soil. …”
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PROBLEM OF EXPERIENCE IN POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY ПРОБЛЕМА ОПЫТА В ПОСТМОДЕРНИСТСКОЙ ФИЛОСОФИИ ПРОБЛЕМА ДОСВІДУ В ПОСТМОДЕРНІСТСЬКІЙ ФІЛОСОФІЇ... by О. Lauta

“…It is analyzed structuralist strategy of an explication of experience which are directed on disclosing of manuals logocentrism and revealing anthropological character of the nature of experience.…”
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Autistes : entre situations de vulnérabilité et pouvoir d’agir ? by Julie Dumonteil

“…After focusing on an anthropological definition of the notion of vulnerability, the phenomena of vulnerabilization of autistic people is analyzed to understand how education can fight it by encouraging autistic empowerment.…”
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Intégrer le corps en deuil fragmenté by Carine Plancke

“…Anthropological studies on lamentations have stressed the obligatory side of this chanted practice and its social consolidation role. …”
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Expulsionscapes. Logics of Expulsion and Economies of Eviction in Milan (Italy) by Giacomo Pozzi

“…Drawing on ethnographic research carried out between October 2015 and December 2016, in this article I employ an anthropological gaze to show the socially and analytically central role evictions play in the contemporary world as a mechanism for producing social exclusion, inequality and difference. …”
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The Value of Gambling and its Research by Pauliina Raento

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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. These are probably one of the most significant reified examples of the so-called ‘sacred’ as tangible evidence in contemporary western societies. …”
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La vita è altrove? L'autunno mediterraneo dei pensionati italiani in Tunisia, tra conflitti e crisi. by Laura Faranda

“…With the first data collected, we will attempt to outline some provisional answers and to bring out the anthropological sense of the phenomenon. …”
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Caribbean Insular Mobilities by Carlo Cubero

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Le renouveau de l’approche documentaire, exemple d’une archive collaborative : Susan Meiselas, Kurdistan (1991-2009) by Clara Bouveresse

“…For twenty years, her project participated in the debates on the role and authority of the photographic document, addressing the critique of photojournalism, reflections on archives and the material turn in anthropological theory. Susan Meiselas transforms each photograph into an object, conveying stories and encounters. …”
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La topographie légendaire des itinéraires de la navette by Xavière Lanéelle

“…The commuter, the train and the route have been the object of a myth to serve a commercial policy as well as a development of the served cities.But the legend settled down only because it is one of the anthropological foundations and because the myth allows to combine incompatible elements, here the combination of the requirements of contemporary modernity and a more traditional life of provincial rooting.One of the aspects of the myth is that the TGV is a sterile environment and the countryside it goes through, a "black hole". …”
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Pletivo života: Teologicko-misiologické implikácie jednej metafory by Pavol Bargár

“…One of the major insights drawn from anthropological research is the acknowledgment that every human being is in each stage of their life embedded in a complex and multi-layered structure of relationships with other people as well as the world around them. …”
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The role of local populations in tourism development projects: the case of Loango National Park in Gabon by Ariane Payen

“…This paper will show how community tourism projects in protected areas can often fail due to both a lack of communication between the different actors and the insufficient integration of the relevant socio-anthropological issues. In the same way as a World Heritage site, the case of Loango National Park in Gabon clearly demonstrates that the original objectives of involvement by and empowerment of the local population are still far from being met. …”
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How and why to study mountains: topics and types of research between limits and opportunities by Laura Bonato

“… Field practice in a neighbouring ethnographic context – both culturally and geographically –, of which the researcher is a part, entails specific difficulties, epistemological and practical problems quite different from those faced by classical anthropology. Based on the experience gained in three different projects involving the western Alpine arc over the last decade, we intend to highlight the fact that in some contexts it is appropriate to prefer ‘peripheral’ anthropological research, less localised and based on shorter stays. …”
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