Ethnographic Studies
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In this article we present an ethnomethodological study of a controversial case of ‘friendly fire’ from the Iraq War in which leaked video footage, war on video, acquired particular significance. We examine testimony given during a United... more
Qualitative research provides opportunities to study bullying and peer harassment as social processes, interactions and meaning-making in the everyday context of particular settings. It offers the possibility of developing a deep... more
_The Physiology of Love and Other Writings_ is the first English annotated collection of Mantegazza’s selected works. In my extensive introductory essay, Mantegazza’s hybrid contributions from fiction, travel-writing, and ethnography to... more
انها مقدمة لكتاب "الاولياء والمزارات الاسلامية في فلسطين" للدكتور توفيق كنعان، والذي صدر باللغة الانجليزية سنة 1927، بعد نشره كسلسلة من المقالات على صفحات مجلة الاستشراق الفلسطينة. وقام الباحث الفلسطيني د. نمر سرحان على ترجمته الى... more
[By Chang-su Cho Houchins; Introduction by P.M. Taylor. This full book is uploaded here while the Smithsonian website, where it will be published online, is being revised.] The John Baptiste Bernadou Collection of nineteenth-century... more
Indigenous healthcare practices played as an integral part of human evolution and development since ancient times and have been exercised in every culture around the world.Traditional knowledge and practices from Yapayao-Isneg had... more
Volumul propune o recitire critică a tradiţiei etnografice ca analiză antropologică a contextelor istorice în care s-a format această tradiție. Sunt interpretate dimensiunile ideologice ale societăţii şi culturii „prinse” în această... more
In this article we present an ethnomethodological study of a controversial case of 'friendly fire' from the Iraq War in which leaked video footage, war on video, acquired particular significance. We examine testimony given during... more
El estudio de la correspondencia entre los antropólogos Alfred Métraux (1902-1963) y Jules Henry (1904-1969) nos permite reconstruir la trastienda de la etnología chaqueña durante la década de 1930. Las cartas de ambos investigadores... more
Los documentales que aquí ofrecemos retratan cuatro culturas musicales en movimiento: la wixarika o huichola, de Jalisco; la cultura pa ipai, de Baja California; la yoreme o yaqui, de Sonora, y la ñuu savi o mixteca, de Oaxaca. La serie... more
This chapter relates my efforts to regard several plants as ethnographic subjects, a project that proceeded rather awkwardly at first, then developed some momentum. I settled on the “how to” format because I hope my approach proves useful... more
Starting from the diachronic impact of salt on humanity's numerous activities and spiritual reflexes, the author calls for establishing a new humanist discipline: the anthropology of salt. This first exertion lists the themes developed... more
A survey of ethnographic collections with a “colonial context” shows almost exclusively male collectors' names including a few indigenous collectors. But were women really not involved in contemporary collecting? Using the example of a... more
This article examines the material culture of migration, focusing on migrants’ house-making projects in their countries of birth. In particular, it examines the houses built or refurbished by Albanians in their home-country, which is no... more
In this article, I discuss the fact that doing “anthropology at home” involves the same core anthropological methodology as undertaking research abroad. This implies that while doing anthropology at home may have some advantages... more
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion is proudly sponsored by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion,. and is co-edited by Don Seeman and Tulasi Srinivas. We seek proposals for ethnographic monographs and edited volumes that... more
The aim of this study is to investigate and explain inconsistencies within the social constructions of school rules as they take shape in everyday interactions between teachers and students, and to explore how students interpret these... more
During Mussolini’s fascist regime, the Atlante internazionale del Touring Club Italiano published in Milan (1927-1938) and too in Barcelona (1930-1935), and widely recognised far beyond the borders of Italy, included among its plates two... more
This book contributes significantly to the conversation about inclusion as a critical component of school culture. Educating All recounts Christopher McMaster’s experience as a critical ethnographer in a school community, given the task... more
This book examines the Singapore government’s controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service “bond”. It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese... more
In early 2017, a combined team of faculty members and students from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology, Ladkrabang (KMITL) and Ball State University (BSU), U.S.A., conducted a three-week field study in three neighborhoods around Si... more
The purpose of this study was to investigate and generate a grounded theory on how and why students behave as they do in school situations in which they witness another student in distress. Fieldwork and interviews were conducted in 2... more
Известные у русских и у народов, живущих по соседству с ними, обряды поклонения воде и ритуального её "одаривания", ещё толком не изученные, требуют большего внимания со стороны исследователей. Предварительно же можно заключить, что они... more
The John Baptiste Bernadou Collection of nineteenth-century Korean artifacts, so thoroughly researched and presented by Chang-su Cho Houchins in this volume, represents a unique attempt by an amateur American ethnographer to record the... more
We have been conducting collaborative ethnographic research together for over 20 years. Over the past 12 months, this collaboration has included face-to-face encounters, both in Kampala, Uganda, and in Perth, Australia. However, since the... more
In this paper, we explore an interaction between a competitive 'Counter Strike: Global Offensive' player and her younger brother, whom she is tutoring in his first match in competitive mode. At least two phenomena, intertwined with each... more
Este trabajo analiza la relación entre Alfred Métraux y los indígenas tobas y pilagás del Oeste formoseño en 1933. Se detallan las peculiares circunstancias sociopolíticas que enmarcan las campañas de terreno del joven antropólogo: los... more
The aim of this qualitative case study is to investigate how learning in “democratic participation” is constituted by the social interaction and conversation pattern in school democratic meetings in a Swedish primary school. According to... more
L’orientation générale du numéro consiste à examiner le son / bruit en termes de mobilisation dans les activités sociales, et à considérer la manière dont les processus sonores émergent en situation. Les acteurs ne se limitent pas à en... more
As an anthropologist I have devoted myself to exploring the cultural landscapes of the American Hemisphere on a quest to recover my American Indian heritage. As a photographer I seek the spirit of the elders through the art of the... more
From the Germans of Danzig (now Gdansk, in Poland) to the Turks of Rhodes: the «Europa etnografica» map (1:6.000.000) of the Atlante internazionale del TCI (1st ed., 1927). For a later version of this map (3rd ed., 1929) you can see... more
Book Review: When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God, by TM Luhrmann. Vintage, 2012 published in Ecclesial Practices 1(2): 255-257.
This is my old article published in 2005 by Ab Imperio, a Russian academic journal, as a part of discussion of the Soviet legacy in the sphere of ethnographic studies.