Oltre l’intenzione. Etnografia urbana, lavoro sul campo e progettazione territoriale by Paolo Grassi

“…The text as a whole will illustrate a role as an anthropologist capable of bringing into play different skills and acting on several levels, beyond the intentionality of the anthropological gesture.…”
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Witchcraft as metaculture in the Bolivian Chaco by Kathleen Lowrey

“…The argument of the article is that the leadership of this community attempted an anthropological treatment of a problem of witchcraft by addressing it at a « meta-cultural » level having to do with community dynamics. …”
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Ribeirinho Food Regimes, Socioeconomic Inclusion and Unsustainable Development of the Amazonian Floodplain by Tatiana Schor, Gustavo S. Azenha

“…We argue that a political ecology of food regimes in the Brazilian Amazonian floodplain—drawing on anthropological and geographic approaches and insights—provides a privileged vantage from which to illuminate the contradictions of current development trajectories and the socioenvironmental disparities they engender, potentially contributing to the articulation of more effective sustainable development and social inclusion policies.…”
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Der theologische Antichiliasmus by Joachim Wedel

“…The arguments against chiliasm taken from these theologians are of anthropological nature (the implementation of the Kingdom of God exceeds the human capacity) and indicate the importance of structures (state, church) in ensuring stability and durability on earth. …”
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Cohousing and new dwelling cultures in post-seismic urban planning by Mauro Francini, Rosario Chimirri, Annunziata Palermo, Maria Francesca Viapiana

“…The present contribution, also on the basis of historical-anthropological studies, concerning past community life and current reality, between fragility of the landscape and incongruity of human actions, indicates a return to cohousing as one of the most interesting criteria for the redefinition of urban interventions, opening towards scientific scenarios based on interdisciplinarity, as well as creating an experimental laboratory for planning.…”
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Histoire et épistémologie des savoirs locaux et autochtones by Marie Roué

“…In this paper, we will attempt an anthropological history of the concept of “local knowledge”, from the first research dedicated to the botanical or zoological knowledge of “traditional” peoples carried out in the 50’s, to the outburst of interest on behalf of actors as disparate as the World Bank, conservation and development NGOs, governments, biodiversity managers, not to mention the main stakeholders, i.e. indigenous peoples and local specialised groups.Through the history of different networks that contributed to developing the concept of local knowledge, traditional or indigenous ecological knowledge, we will highlight precursors and replace them in their heuristic context. …”
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Analyse préliminaire et discussion sur la nature d’un dépôt dentaire très particulier by Yves Gleize, Dominique Castex, Rémy Chapoulie, Henri Duday

“…The existence of another example in the anthropological series studied, although smaller, indicates the importance of the loss of antagonist teeth in the development of such deposits.…”
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Des archives pour l’anthropologie : futurs possibles et passés contingents by David Zeitlyn

“…Archives (paper and digital) also provide access to the results of anthropological research in ways mandated by ethics codes, but these are subject to controversy. …”
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Stress psychosocial de l’enfant et excrétion urinaire de cortisol : impact du type de structure familiale et de l’expérience de migration by Hélène Pagezy, Valérie Niel-Bernard, Pierre Darlu

“…The relationship between migration, family structure and stress level was investigated in an anthropological study carried out in Marseilles on 60 children of Senegalese origin, 5 to 15 years old. …”
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Gambling and Consumption by Riitta Matilainen

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Etnografia dell’incertezza: l’incapacità di pensare il futuro come assenza (culturale) by Vincenzo Matera

“… Within an anthropological framework, the social process of progressive contextualization of individuals, of acquisition of cultural resources, and of the necessary expertise and knowledge to move culturally and meaningfully into the social space is intended in terms of a progressive reduction of indeterminacy [Geertz 1987; Remotti 2013]. …”
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Les sols (péri)urbains à l’épreuve du discours sur le primat du local by Élisabeth Rémy, Nolwenn Gauthier, Marine Canavese

“…Moreover, in the name of crops in urban soil development, cultivation off the ground is paradoxically chosen, which raises numerous technical, anthropological and political questions. Based on investigations carried out over several years, this article addresses the complex mechanisms that produce ignorance on an emerging object, that is, the nurturing urban soil valued in the name of local primacy.…”
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La culture de la patate douce et du maïs chez les Krahô by Ana Gabriela Morim de Lima

“…From an anthropological perspective, this article proposes a reflection on human-plant interactions based on an ethnographic study of the complementary opposition between sweet potato and maize crops among the Krahô, an Amerindian people of Central Brazil. …”
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Projekt statutu kapelana zakładu leczniczego oraz domu pomocy społecznej. Podstawy i uzasadnienie by Antoni Bartoszek

“…The second step formulates anthropological, theological and legal grounds that are a starting point for creation of the draft. …”
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Michel Foucault se historiografiese benadering as lens in historiese ondersoeke by Mary-Anne Plaatjies van Huffel

“…Foucault’s archaeological historiography is a method of historical analysis that is free from the anthropological theme. In the article the following themes will be discussed: Foucault and post-structuralism, Foucault and the archaeological historiography, Foucault and the genealogical historiography, Foucault and discourse analysis, Foucault and the formation of objects of discourse, Foucault and the reading process and Foucault knowledge and truth, Foucault and power and discipline. …”
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Fragments of Lost Origins by Pekka Tuominen

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Water Symbolism in Yorùbá Folklore and Culture1 by George Olusola Ajibade

“…The data collected was analysed from the lenses of a hermeneutical-anthropological approach. The study found that water constitutes and creates cultural, social and religious identities among the Yorùbá people of southwestern Nigeria. …”
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La transformation des normes professionnelles de personnel de direction en contexte d’incertitude : étude de cas dans deux établissements au profil contrasté by Jean-Luc Denny

“…The path proceeds from the ergological approach, the professional practice is approached from an anthropological point of view on the work granting a heuristic function to its study. …”
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Preliminary report on human remains from Tell Masaikh and Tell Ashara. Season 2009* by Jacek Tomczyk

“…The paper is a summary of anthropological research conducted in 2009. We have been excavated 80 human skeletons (50 individuals from Tell Masikh, and 30 from Tell Ashara).…”
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Qu’est le quilombo aujourd’hui devenu ? De la catégorie coloniale au concept anthropologique by Véronique Boyer

“…The construction of the quilombo object : from colonial category to anthropological concept. After the enactment of the article 68 of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, anthropology became interested in the emergence of a quilombola identity in a society where the quilombo is supposed to belong to the past. …”
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