Le Hellfest, un espace de violences ritualisées by Corentin Charbonnier

“…Gathering a large number of metalheads during a defined time and in a limited space, the festivalfavors the investigation in the anthropological approach, and the participant observation. …”
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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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Étude anthropologique d’un cimetière de paroisse rurale : les sépultures (8e-19e s.) de Rigny (Rigny-Ussé, Indre-et-Loire) by Christian Theureau

“…This good-sized sample has facilitated a useful reappraisal of basic anthropological techniques. It paints a singular picture of this rustic world which, over a long period of time, took in physically disadvantaged people and children from the neighbouring towns. …”
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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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La defensa del medioambiente y la construcción de ciudadanía: reflexiones en torno a un “movimiento ciudadano” en la ciudad de Valdivia, Chile by Bárbara Morales Aguirre

“…From an anthropological approach, this article seeks to explore the process of citizenship building that holds the movement “Action for the swans” in the context of the defense of their local environment. …”
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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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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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L’offrande des pieds de cochon by Claude Meyer

“…In order to demonstrate the benefits of an anthropological approach to literary studies, this paper begins with introducing ethnocritique as a paradigm combining formal analysis and an awareness of the cultural components of texts. …”
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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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Les conseillers pédagogiques de l’enseignement supérieur entre unité et variété : étude clinique by Jean-Pierre Bourgade

“…In a clinical approach, based on the Anthropological theory of the didactical, we study the different ways the members of a network of faculty developers seize a tool designed for the analysis of teaching. …”
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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: 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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Comprendre le travail des enseignants de judo : des valeurs déclarées aux valeurs « en acte » by Sylvie Perez, Thérèse Perez-Roux

“…This study combines approaches in sociological, ergological and situated anthropological approaches. The aim of this study is to describe and to understand the teaching activity of judo teachers, with a particular focus on the values that they declare and how they actualize this values in their work. …”
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