Lost Pathways of Urban Development by Erik Harms

“…The trees and pathways in these photographs evoke an aspect of sociality often overlooked in the logocentric anthropological and geographical literature on development-induced evictions. …”
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Corpi dissonanti: note su gender variance e sessualità. Il caso dei femminielli napoletani by Marzia Mauriello

“…In relation to this “experience of the self”, the author, who has spent almost a decade engaged in field research, here investigates how and when the idea of sexual and gender deviance was constructed and consolidated in so-called Western contexts. Through anthropological analysis of “dissonant bodies”, a metaphor to indicate the different modality, for some subjectivities, of experiencing the self with respect to a constituted order, the analysis shows the cultural, processual and historical nature of the principles of “justice” and “order”, relative to the body and its acts. …”
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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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« Tout a un maître » : possession individuelle, usage communautaire de la nature et gestion environnementale participative dans la réserve extractiviste ‘Quilombo do Frechal’ (Brés... by Manuela Tassan

“…Through the use of an anthropological perspective, this article intends to show how certain forms of individual appropriation and communitarian use of nature may not only coexist, but also represent a strong element of social identification within a so-called « traditional community » in the Brazilian Amazonia. …”
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Discernment - the compass on the high sea of spirituality by Kees Waaijman

“…It first describes the complexity of spirituality as a phenomenon that has, on a cultural, anthropological and mystical level, lost its boundaries and expanded beyond all existing horizons. …”
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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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Vers une ethnographie paysagère ? by Hugo Gassin

“…The literature also shows that anthropological methods are used in other landscape projects. …”
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Il luogo e il senso: creazione e significazione degli spazi nel mondo globale by Gambardella, Fabiana, Amodio, Paolo

“…This dossier intends to investigate the anthropological evolutions affecting the present, starting from the way in which contemporary man shapes and signifies spaces. …”
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SINO-VIETNAMESE PEOPLE’S ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN DISTRICTS 5, 6, AND 11 OF HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM (1996-2016) by Trieu Huy Ha

“…Based on the theory of functionalism, culture-economy relationships, and primary anthropological research methods, this article assesses the economic contributions of the Sino-Vietnamese in industry and handicrafts, commerce and services, and finance and credit. …”
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Effects of Rural Tourism on Rural Development: Hajij Village in Kermanshah by Hamid jalalian, fariosh namdari, Asghar pashazadeh

“…The Hajij village with worthy natural, cultural and anthropological heritage has known as a tourism destination in Kermanshah province and west of Iran. …”
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"Suddenly a Binge Drinking Episode Has Happened to Him": Locus of Control, Notion of Responsibility, Alcoholism and Suicide in the Taz Region, Yamal Nenets Autonomous Okrug by Kirill V. Istomin

“…Although the notion of responsibility is often invoked by mass-media reports, activists and lay people when discussing alcoholism and suicides, anthropological discussions of this topic seem to deliberately avoid the notion. …”
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TABLIGHI JAMAAT SCHISM: RESPONSES AND CHANGES OF ITS MEMBERS IN INDONESIA by Achmad Achmad

“…This study is an analysis of the Tablighi Jamaat schism in India, various responses, and changes that have occurred to its members in Indonesia. Using a socio-anthropological and historical approach, the results of this study show that the schism that occurred was caused by the conflict over the struggle for the highest authority of the movement of its leaders in India. …”
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Incertezza, precarietà, capacità di immaginazione del futuro e modernità: un confronto tra Appadurai e De Martino by Alessandro Mancuso

“…Though apparently distanced for their temporal and historical moment, their conceptual terminology, their interlocutors and the fields of their empirical research, it is possible to get some notable parallelisms of theoretical vision between the anthropological work of De Martino and that of Appadurai. …”
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Le caring thinking, au cœur des ambitions éthiques d’Ann Margaret Sharp : quelles recommandations concrètes dans l’accompagnement des vulnérabilités, au sein de la pratique philoso... by Johanna Hawken

“…The emergence of this concept is determined by a specific anthropological postulate: one in which humanity is defined by its vulnerability, its interdependence and its singularity. …”
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Thesaurus Exemplorum Medii Aevi : une base de données collaborative sur les exempla médiévaux by Jean-Paul Rehr, Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu

“…Long considered a class of dogmatic, religious, and moral texts, they were mostly studied as a subgroup of folktales and fables in literary studies. With the “anthropological turn” in historical research, new attention was paid to exempla as sources of cultural and historical insight, notably by the historian Jacques Le Goff and his student-inheritors.ThEMA, a database of medieval exempla, began life in the 1990s in the hands of these inheritors, and has grown and transformed since then. …”
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Impurity, Moral Substantiality, and Social Control: A Gender Perspective by Alice Van den Bogaert

“…Understanding its nature and functioning beyond its concrete objects is therefore a fundamental anthropological question. This work is grounded in anthropology, though it may be of interest to scholars from other disciplines. …”
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Semantyczno-pragmatyczne znaczenie natury by Jacek L. Łapiński

“…Pragmatic sense of the term “nature” depends on the context (physical, philosophical, ecological, anthropological, relative, etc.). It can be also analyzed from two different perspectives: static and dynamic, this situation leads to the triple opposition: natural versus artificial, nature versus culture and nature versus environment. …”
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Jesus uttering his last words and drawing on his final breath: reflecting on Luke 23:46 by P. Nagel

“…This study does not overburden Jesus’ last moments with theological concerns but aims to reflect on Luke 23:46 and parallels from an existential-anthropological point of view. It deliberately accentuates the mundane, “human” character of Jesus’ “last” moments on this earth. …”
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Tangible consumption data landscapes of teenagers by Ayşe Özge Ağça

“…In this study, I investigate how teenagers understand energy consumption, how tangible data mapping through anthropological theories may increase their awareness, and what ideas they may have about how to change habits. …”
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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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