Women and Kula by Susanne Kuehling

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Ethnographie des pratiques légales autour de la revendication des droits fonciers chez les groupes pastoraux de l’État de Khartoum by Barbara Casciarri

“…Based on a long term anthropological fieldwork, this article focuses on the legal practices used by a pastoral group in the rural area of Khartoum State (Sudan), the Aḥāmda, in order to face the attacks against their land rights. …”
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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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À propos d’une production céramique indigène dite matt-painted dans le cadre de l’Italie méridionale protohistorique by Clément Bellamy

“….), we will read Incoronata’s archaeological contexts thanks to the contributions of multidisciplinarity, from concepts developed within anthropological sciences to technological analyzes. This will allow us to refine the reading grid of Italian protohistory, and to grasp more precisely the identity strategies of these local elites within the Mediterranean world.…”
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Bricolage and Social Entrepreneurship to Address Emergent Social Needs: A “Deconstructionist” Perspective by Lamberto Zollo, Riccardo Rialti, Cristiano Ciappei, Andrea Boccardi

“…In partcular, social entrepreneurship has recently gained the atenton of management scholars interested in understanding its sociological and anthropological aspects. This paper focuses on Claude Lévi-Strauss’s noton of “bricolage” and the way it can represent a signifcant opportunity to address emergent social needs. …”
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Affective, parochial or innovative? Aleppo traders on the margin of global capitalism by Annika Rabo

“…The article is based on material collected during social anthropological fieldwork in Aleppo between 1997 and 2003, but mainly carried out in 1998-1999.…”
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Le dernier voyage by Azzedine Kinzi

“…Our proposal questions, through socio-anthropological and empirical reflection, the public management of "the death of the emigrant" in the two communities of belonging to the emigre: the country of immigration (Saint-Étienne) and the village of origin (Tounef in Kabylia). …”
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Problem uporczywej terapii w świetle filozofii człowieka by Kazimierz Szałata

“…The author of the article defines the conception of medical futility at the level of anthropological philosophy and notices that in practice the designation of the moment, when we deal with the medical futility, belongs to the doctors who depends on his empiric knowledge and wisdom.…”
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Animer l’espace public ? Une question pluridisciplinaire de recherche by Pascale Pichon, Jean-Paul Thibaud

“…Secondly, animation needs to be questioned in its historical, anthropological and phenomenological depth. Thirdly, the animation is based on political issues of the utmost importance and calls for a critical and attentive look at its effects.…”
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Ostéochondronécroses articulaires by Silvia Boccone, Rosa Boano, Enzo Fulcheri, Emma Rabino Massa

“…As part of investigations carried out in the Dauphiné region of France during the past few years, ancient human remains discovered in the Church of Puy-Saint-Pierre in Briançon and in the church of La Salle les Alpes, 6-7 km from Briançon (Haute-Alpes), have undergone anthropological and palaeopathological studies.In our studies of the medieval and modern samples, we were able to observe a significant frequency of bone and joint lesions. …”
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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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Political Psychology and the Possibility of Interdisciplinary Understanding of the Political Issue: A Critique on the Book Political Psychology by Aliashraf Nazari

“…In the meantime, political psychology has attempted to bridge the gap between psychological, sociological, historical, philosophical, anthropological, and linguistic issues, in spite of the complexities that exist in different scientific fields, and to open new possibilities for reflection on political transformations. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Ontology Scientisma and Religious Philosophy in XX Cen-tury Сравнительный анализ онтологии сциентизма и религиозной философии в ХХ веке Порівняльний аналіз... by D. Yu. Snit'ko

“…Specially attention concentrated of the empirical and metaphysical components of the seontological paradigms, and also of the problem of ontological relativity and relations with the anthropological investigations.<br>Рассмотрены онтологические аспекты сциентизма и религиозной метафізики Запада в ХХ в. …”
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Un nouveau cas de sépultures multiples à Troyes, Place de la Libération (Aube, Moyen Âge) by Cécile Paresys, Dominique Castex, Cédric Roms, Isabelle Richard, Stéphanie Degobertière

“…In the particular context of acute mortality events, the use of archaeo-anthropological methods (analysis of corpse deposition and of age and sex distribution at death) can provide new elements for consideration. …”
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Comunidades de práctica de la lengua caboverdiana y de A Fala de Xálima. Estudio comparativo by Natalia Czopek, Bartosz Dondelewski

“…The empirical material will be a series of anthropological observations and comments on the semi-directed interviews, made in situ by the authors, in which we will compare, for instance, the efforts towards the orthographic standardization of the two systems and their possible effects. …”
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Ipse vidit: fotografia antropologica ottocentesca e possesso del mondo by Alberto Baldi

“…In Italian and foreign anthropological research with a positivist imprinting, photography is conceived as a device to make up for the documenting limitations of language: it is understood that nothing better than the image made scientifically “credible” by the optic and mechanic instrument that creates it can faithfully reproduce the analyzed human gatherings. …”
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De la machine de la fête baroque à la performance urbaine : éphémère éternel by Alessandra Cirafici

“…However, starting from a study of the significance that the macchina della festa barocca had on the urban development of the city, in defining the collective spaces and on the founding of the idea of the piazza, it will be possible to consider in a more general sense the power of renewal and persuasion that the provisional is capable of promoting in the life of cities over time, as well as on the role that the ephemeral, intended as an anthropological category, has had and continues to have on the development and definition of the concept of an urban space that is defined and measured through its rituals of use, its performances, the deep sense of wonder, amazement and participation that the ephemeral brings with it.…”
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Reconfigurations des formes canoniques du discours rapporté en milieu numérique : quelques exemples remarquables de discours directs by Laurence ROSIER

“…The different uses of social media are intrinsically linked to the circulation of speeches, which can be regarded as an anthropological dimension of communication. The evolution of the use of reported speech as a shared discourse coincides with the original forms of reported speech that are recombined and augmented by hyperlinks with multiple functions. …”
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L’INFLUENCE DE L’ART POPULAIRE SUR L’ART SAVANT: RÉFÉRENCES ESTHÉTIQUES AUX CRÉATIONS ROUMAINES DANS LA PREMIÈRE MOITIÉ DU XXᵉ SIÈCLE by Liliana-Isabela APOSTU HAIDER

“…It was thus necessary to study the ethno musicological aspects strictly connected to the Rumanian popular tradition, and the anthropological aspects, aiming at the relation of the art with the human society, which produces it. …”
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Oltre l’intenzione. Note sulla finalità e sull’uso del gesto etnografico by Ferdinando Fava

“…These different uses of ethnography allow to question again the distinction between information and useful information that defines, in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, the difference between basic anthropological research and applied research. Starting with a case study from Palermo, the author suggests rethinking this distinction in relation to the modus operandi in the field. …”
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