(Recovering) China’s Urban Rivers as Public Space by Kelly Shannon, Chen Yiyong

“…This article focuses on the revered role rivers in China once held – in cartography, history, mythology, festivals, cities, and everyday life. It reviews and summarizes ‘hydraulic civilization’, taking cognizance of feng shui as it does so. …”
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Quand l’anthropologie des mondes contemporains remonte le moral de l’anthropologie de la communication by Emmanuelle Lallement, Yves Winkin

“…Yves Winkin deplores that, even when communication anthropology is taught, it is rarely taken into consideration by communication researchers, at least in France, while Emmanuelle Lallement proposes combining their efforts to address an urban anthropology which would assume an analysis of urban policies as festive and ephemeral projects. The Paris-Plage is taken as an example of merchant communication.…”
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Liminality and the possibilities for sex and romance at an international bike meeting: a structural modeling approach by Milene Lança, João Filipe Marques, Patrícia Pinto

“…This research falls over an event where the festive environment combined to the liminoid states may contribute to enhance the availability for romance and sex. …”
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Jardins turcs des bords de la Seine normande by François Calame, François Texier

“…Makeshift architectural structures, often built out of recuperated materials, have been erected in the different cultivated gardens and offer shelter for the families and the festive reunions. Some remarkable trees, such as Japanese medlars or walnut trees, are scattered throughout the gardens which, today, deserve some form of recognition and protection as heritage.…”
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Miguel Hidalgo ou les récits d’une figure emblématique de l’indépendance mexicaine by Dalila Chine

“…At a time when the bells of festivities throughout the country to mark the bicentenary of independence are ringing, we return to this article on the variations of speech related to this character erected as an icon for all schoolchildren. …”
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Espacio urbano y la modernización del alumbrado público en la ciudad de Puebla entre 1888 y 1910 by Edna Hernández

“…This article explores the first decades of electric lighting in the city and the transformations that it implied transformations not only physical otherwise also social changes as the arrival of new services such as restaurants, cafe and cinemas and new festive activities that led to an intensification of the practice and the appropriation of urban space during the night and a new perception what meant the nightlife.…”
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Filming Up: Brazilian Elites Through an Ethnographic Lens by Alex Vailati, Walter Andrade

“…Moreover, we will underline how these production practices potentially stress visual anthropological theory, forcing us to reconsider both the practices of visual fieldwork and the mainstream linguistic form that circulates within festivals and teaching institutions.…”
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„... nenábožnost nynějšího věku ...“ Proměny zbožnosti ve druhé polovině 19. století očima katolických kněží by Hana Stoklasová

“…Parish priests mostly focused on insufficient churchgoing and neglecting confession, Holy Communion and observing festive days. The observance of Sunday as a feast day, which is reserved for contemplation, was disturbed by a number of things starting from the fact that it was common that believers worked on a festive day, amused themselves, held drinking bouts or they just did not go to church services and ceremonies at all, alleging miscellaneous, sometimes almost quaint, reasons of their absence. …”
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The Contemporary Museum as a Site for Displaying Values by Mare Kõiva

“…In contemporary society the institution serves many important roles, being a place for displaying historical and contemporary values, an institution for preserving and displaying personal and collective memory, cultural values, for collecting tangible and intangible values, an institution for creating identity and ethnic kudos, a work place, an educational environment, a framework for promoting ethnic handicraft and art, a place for integrating different folklore festivals, exhibitions, shows; they are connected to tourism patterns and museum business. …”
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Fantasised and fantastical Nordic imaginaries: Contextualising Nordic life vlogs by East Asian YouTube vloggers by Lee Jin, Abidin Crystal

“…The vlogs showcase “a slice of life” content, documenting the simple living, daily routines, beautiful landscapes, cultural festivals, and everyday norms of what it is like to live in the Nordic region. …”
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Metamorphoses of Corpus Christi: Eucharistic Processions & Clashes in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Vienna by Károly Goda

“…In this sense, the way of celebrating the feast in festive trains was actually in itself continuously compromising the original medieval mission of the cult and so became a perfect tool of early modern Catholic reform. …”
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The potential of the municipality of Trstenik for the development of the wine tourism by Stojković Jelena, Milićević Snežana

“…The Trstenik vineyard is located on the Zupa wine road and possesses many wineries which are open for visitors, many hectares of vineyards, two wine festivals and many culturally historical monuments in its immediate surroundings. …”
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Audiovisual Narrative for Fashion Heritage: Communicating and Valorizing Archives through Fashion Film by Dorothea Burato

“…It highlights the role of fashion film festivals as platforms that amplify heritage narratives while fostering discussions on sustainability, diversity, and innovation. …”
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS IN DENMARK: KEY FACTORS by T. A. VOLOSHINA

“…FFE-YE has worked out the system of extracurricular activities, which allow motivating young people to develop entrepreneurship, such as business camps, forums, festivals, fairs. The paper pays special attention to the peculiarities of teacher training in the format of educational innovation and entrepreneurship. …”
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Literary Networks and Digital Media in Contemporary African Literatures by Aurélie JOURNO

“…Lastly, by analyzing two recent initiatives from Kenya (Jalada and Hekaya), it focuses on the various scopes and geographies of these virtual literary networks and the ways in which they intersect with material and social networks, through events like festivals or writers’ workshops.…”
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Effets de la marchandisation de l’arganier sur la vie socioéconomique des populations de l’arganeraie marocaine by Larbi Aziz, Marc Mormont, Khallil Allali

“…As it always configured and gave rhythm to the life of the populations of the arganraie because it was (or one of its products) always present in their culinary, festive or sociocultural activities. However, the boom of the market of the argan engendered multiple consequences on the socioeconomic and cultural life of these populations. …”
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The Dynamics of Traditional Religion in the Political Economy of Ìkòrodú by Adéyẹmí Balógun

“…A notable example is the reduction in dates of religious festivals which Traditionalists believe were once instrumental in sustaining social order and prosperity in the town. …”
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What emotions does music express? Structure of affect terms in music using iterative crowdsourcing paradigm. by Tuomas Eerola, Pasi Saari

“…The established affect structures were largely positive and contained concepts such as "romantic" and "free", and terms such as "in love", "dreamy", and "festive" that have rarely featured in past research.…”
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Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989) et Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990) : les documentaires du New Queer Cinema by Camille Bui

“…Ruby Rich welcomed the birth of what she called “new queer cinema” — a wave of independent gay, lesbian, and transgender films by and large well-received at film festivals. At a time when gay activism matured, queer cinema blended political and aesthetic concerns. …”
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