Ethnography - Science topic

Qui est ce professionnel dénommé tantôt interprète de services publics ou en milieu social, tantôt interprète de dialogue ou de liaison ? Cet interprète qui intervient en contexte social, médical, juridique et migratoire est petit à petit devenu une figure indispensable du dialogue entre institutions et personnes allophones depuis le début des anné...

Objective: the purpose of this pre-feasibility study was to examine perceptions and experiences of a Sit-to-stand activity with urban Brazilian community-dwelling older people in their homes. Method: the exploration method was focused ethnography. Purposive sampling was used to recruit 20 older people. Five means of data generation were used, na...

Resumo Objetivo: o objetivo deste estudo de pré-viabilidade foi examinar percepções e experiências da atividade de Sit-to-stand com idosos brasileiros residentes em suas casas, no meio urbano. Método: o método exploratório foi etnografia focada. Foi utilizada a amostragem intencional para recrutar 20 idosos. Foram utilizados cinco meios de geração...

Resumen Objetivo: el propósito de este estudio de viabilidad previa fue examinar percepciones y experiencias con respecto a la actividad Sit-to-stand entre los adultos mayores de Brasil que viven en sus hogares en comunidades urbanas. Método: el método de exploración se enfocó en la etnografía. Se utilizó muestreo intencional para reclutar 20 adult...

O jornalismo e os mídia, mas também os novos mídia sociais, desempenham um papel fundamental no estabelecimento de pontes entre diferentes culturas, tradições históricas e comunidades, além de representarem baluartes da liberdade de expressão em sociedades democráticas e pluralistas (Leurs and Pozanesi, 2018; Mollerup, 2020). Mas os novos mídia soc...

This chapter deals with mountain peaks - a major sub-segment of nature-based tourism (NBT). Through the case study of Mount Fuji climbers past and present, the core research aim is to investigate whether re-designing sustainable experiences can support site managers’ efforts to infuse historical aspects of pilgrimage into the current trend toward p...

El aumento del alumnado de origen extranjero en las escuelas españolas ha provocado que desde finales del siglo XX se planteen nuevos retos educativos y se desarrollen planes y proyectos con enfoque intercultural dentro del marco de inclusión y convivencia. Este trabajo pretende profundizar en el nivel de reconocimiento de la diversidad cultural en...

En la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, las prácticas en extensión constituyen un formato que articula la enseñanza de diferentes materias con la experiencia territorial en el barrio de Villa Argüello (Berisso) bajo la premisa de que nuestra unidad académica forma parte indisoluble del barrio en la que e...

What is the added value of visiting migrants’ current and previous houses when investigating the transnational circulation of home? This chapter addresses this question, drawing on ethnographic research in houses inhabited by Peruvian migrants in England and Spain and by their relatives in Peru. Through the analysis of how the domestic space is org...

Being a guest in the home of someone else is a meaningful experience in several ways, including the scope it gives for an ethnographic understanding of people’s life conditions, routines and emplaced forms of homemaking. This introduction is an invitation to appreciate the potential of home visits and stays, particularly in research on migrants and...

This chapter builds upon extensive ethnographic research with South Asian diasporas in Britain. To depict and disentangle the complexity of such migrant collectives, three case studies are considered, with different national and religious backgrounds, and diverse times of migration. Mapping out as many Black-and-Minority-Ethnic districts in London,...

Our paper explores the complex place-based relations of cross-sector partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners. We draw on a longitudinal in-depth case study of the Bundian Way, an Indigenous-led cross-sector partnership of over 40 organisations. Through practices of listening to history and walking ‘on Country’, the non-Indigenou...

Resumen El presente artículo expone las conclusiones desprendidas de un trabajo de campo, basado sobre la metodología cualitativa de observación participante, llevada a cabo con el objetivo de estudiar, desde una perspectiva sociológica, la actividad de profesionales en donde la creatividad juega un papel esencial en su quehacer. A través de ello,...

This chapter reflects on homemaking within a multicultural condominium called Hotel House, located in the small Italian town of Porto Recanati, where almost 2000 people live, 95% of them being migrants. The research was carried out through a lengthy participant observation within both the domestic and communal spaces of the condominium. Reflecting...

Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación centrada en la experiencia de habitar dos ecoaldeas en el centro de Colombia, a partir de la definición y caracterización de un tipo de corporalidad concreta que encarnan moradores, visitantes y voluntarios de dos comunidades intencionales —una de ellas de carácter religioso— en el departam...

This article uses ethnography and coproduced ethnography to investigate mental health labels amongst university students in the UK. We find that although labels can still be a source of stigma, they are also both necessary and useful. Students use labels as ‘campus technologies’ to achieve various ends. This includes interaction with academics and...

Background: Family involvement has been identified as a key aspect of clinical practice that may help to prevent suicide. Aims: To investigate how families can be effectively involved in supporting a patient accessing crisis mental health services. Method: A multi-site ethnographic investigation was undertaken with two crisis resolution home t...

Nous vous proposons dans ce chapitre de vous amener dans l'arrière-cuisine de la thèse à travers notre propre expérience de chercheurs qualitatifs. Guillaume a réalisé une étude de cas de la mise en œuvre d'un business model omni-canal par des distributeurs (Do Vale, 2019) et Lucie une ethnographie d'associations qui font des maraudes et des distri...

Esta tese tem como objetivo compreender o papel da socialização do patrimônio arqueológico com comunidades tradicionais inseridas em Unidades de Conservação de Uso Sustentável na Amazônia. Foram desenvolvidas ações com as comunidades de Boa Esperança, na Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Amanã (RDS Amanã), e de Tauary, na Floresta Nacional de...

This article examines how social movement actors can forge and sustain a collective identity despite heterogeneous backgrounds and the absence of pre-existing commonalities and networks. Based on an ethnography of the French yellow vest movement, we build on the concept of reactive identity to describe two key mechanisms. First, we show this moveme...

La consagración del carácter pluriétnico y multicultural de la nación colombiana, en la Constitución de 1991, trajo consigo la apertura de diversos espacios de representación política y de participación para las poblaciones afrodescendientes. La incidencia que este proceso ha tenido en la institucionalización del movimiento social afrocolombiano ha...

This three-year study aimed to investigate students’ experiences with alternative seating practices (ASP) in a public-school string orchestra program. Whereas education scholarship has long demonstrated that democratic classroom seating arrangements play a crucial role in the learning process, typical orchestra classrooms maintain a hierarchical se...

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In che periodo si sono generati i cognomi? Quando sono diventati ereditari? Per la Sicilia, uno studio in tal senso che si sta conducendo ormai da alcuni anni da parte dell’Autore, confluito in un progetto di dottorato in corso riguarda un piccolo centro di origine medievale delle Madonie, Gratteri (PA), assunto come modello campione per la ricost...

To cite: Golovina, Ksenia (2023). Cross-border Migrants and Material Objects: Towards Normalizing the State of Disconnectedness. Hakusan Review of Anthropology 26, 45-72. Material objects in the lives of migrants, such as luggage, international parcels, and home décor, have been gaining scholarly attention. Existing studies have revealed the mate...

ABSTRAK Maksud yang ingin dicapai dalam penelitian ini adalah untuk memberikan uraian dalam bentuk deskriptif dan menganalisis serta memberikan interpretasi pada cakupan: 1. Pengembangan kelembagaan PPBM (Pondok Pesantren Bahrul Maghfiroh) Malang melalui spirit entrepreneur santri, 2. Proses pelaksanaan pengembangan kelembagaan pondok pesantren Bah...

People who live in semi-arid regions seem to have established ways of coexisting with the climate and realities, based on the premise that it is not possible to combat a climatic phenomenon or control nature, but that it seems possible to develop practices of coexistence with the characteristics of the semiarid. This understanding adds to the probl...

Hand stencils directly represent modern humans in landscape settings around the world. Yet their social and cultural contexts are often overlooked due to the lack of ethnography associated with the artwork. This paper explores the hand stencils from Kundumbue and Pundimbung rock art sites, situated in the traditional boundaries of the Auwim people...

Tulisan singkat ini didasarkan pada obrolan saya dengan almarhum mertua saya, yaitu almarhum Bapak Mh. D. Margani. Beliau memiliki satu keinginan yang belum terlaksana, yaitu menuliskan tentang statistik dalam konteks kualitatif. Terdapat argumen-argumen beliau yang tidak umum dan saya merasa bahwa hasil sintesisnya ini merupakan hasil dari pengala...

The nature of craft creativity has often been ignored in research which focuses on innovative and novel ideas and thought processes. This view of creativity casts the repetitive nature of craft as antithetical to the disruptive nature of genuine creativity. Drawing on combined enactivist and pragmatist accounts of habits and on a focused cognitive...

Understanding how and why online professional knowledge sharing communities develop issues with gender inclusion is essential to building safe and respectful environments. Trans and nonbinary gender identities are under constant threat and scrutiny, and trans people frequently face harms in online environments. Through digital ethnography, I explor...

Environmental justice (EJ) issues commonly include contestation over knowledge claims. EJ scholarship tends to theorize these as issues of participation or recognition. Drawing on a long-term ethnography of community-led air monitoring, I show that frontline communities experience distinctly epistemic injustices, even in situations characterized by...

Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on tuottaa laaja ja moniulotteinen tietopohja nuorten vapaa-ajasta kaupunkiympäristöissä korona-aikana eli koronaviruksen ja siitä aiheutuneiden rajoitustoimenpiteiden synnyttämänä erikoisena ajanjaksona. Tutkimuksen lähtökohtana on paikkatajun käsite. Sillä tarkoitamme nuorten ymmärrystä, osaamista ja mielikuvia eri...

This ethnographic research explores the meaning and experiences of food insecurity among LGBTQIA+ college students to understand how identity might play a role in those experiences. We offer research-informed recommendations that stu­dent-serving programs could implement to increase accessibility and inclusivity for LGBTQIA+ students to reduce food...

Zusammenfassung Die Forschung zu Schulbegleitung konzentriert sich bislang vor allem auf den Unterricht. Assistenzpersonen werden jedoch auch im außerunterrichtlichen Schulgeschehen eingesetzt, um inklusive Bildung und die soziale Teilhabe von Kindern und Jugendlichen, denen eine Beeinträchtigung zugeschrieben wird, zu unterstützen. In Pausen, beim...

Aims Studies of health services reveal a focus on provision of scheduled care at the expense of patient need, placing the health service in a position of power and the patient as passive recipient. This secondary qualitative analysis of a focused ethnography draws on the Foucauldian concept of power as pervasive and relational, to examine how an im...

This volume is compiled from selected texts and presentations delivered at the International Conference “Ethnography of Disasters”, which took place in May 2021 in Sofia, in the premises of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of sciences. The conference was implemented within the project “Local Disasters and the...

Digital ethnography is an emerging field in ethnography poses questions about the communicative phenomena taking place in a technologically mediated world. Digitized spaces today are where communities of all kinds exist. Experiences of day-to-day realities take place in digitally connected spaces and the storied lives of communities are told throug...

As a point of departure for reconsidering the “troubled concept” of postcolonialism, Stephens proposes a cultural analysis in which Communication Studies, ethnographic approaches, and transnational Writing Studies are on speaking terms. This revisioning is routed through an aspirational “reclaiming” of communication, which would a) practice Bazerma...

The aim of this paper is to study the reasons for the participation of the 3rd and 4th generation emigrants of the state of Chicago, in Greek traditional dance classes, taking as an example the cultural association "Orpheus Hellenic Folklore Society". The collection of ethnographic data was based on the ethnographic method, under the terms of an on...

This article analyzes two actions carried out in 2021 by Jóvenes Republicanos (JR) - a right-wing Argentine political group - and their media coverage. The hypothesis is that JR adopts performative elements as a means to introduce themselves into the public sphere. Their first performance thematized the pandemic and, particularly, the vaccination p...

European ideas about unicorns spread across the world in the colonial era. In South Africa, hunts for that creature, and indigenous rock paintings of it, were commonplace. The aim was proof from ‘terra incognita’, often with the possibility of claiming a reward. There has, however, been little consideration of the independent, local creature onto w...

Drawing on fieldwork in an Aboriginal community in Western Australia, this article chronicles the life of a collection of Indigenous art and material culture through archival research, ethnography, observation, and interviews. Moving from a school to community keeping spaces, through a natural disaster, to an art center and a university conservatio...

This article analyzes two actions carried out in 2021 by Jóvenes Republicanos (JR) - a right-wing Argentine political group - and their media coverage. The hypothesis is that JR adopts performative elements as a means to introduce themselves into the public sphere. Their first performance thematized the pandemic and, particularly, the vaccination p...

Procurement of flint, radiolarite and other extracted raw materials was an important economic asset and played a significant socio-cultural role amongst Pre-and Protohistoric societies. The attractiveness of raw and processed material from subterranean resources is illustrated by their long distance distribution, along with the variety of archaeolo...

This article explores Southern Saami reindeer herders’ experiences and contestations over state consultation and corporate dialogue during a conflict over the Øyfjellet wind energy project in Norway. Informed by a committed research approach and juxtaposition with findings from Indigenous peoples' territorial struggles in Latin-America, the article...

We investigate the importance of spatial, material, and organisational factors to gendered peer relations on the school football pitch. The study is part of an ethnographic research project exploring the relations between school bullying and the institutional context of schooling, focusing on the perspectives of teachers and pupils from preschool c...

Slum formation is a visible outcome of population growth, rapid urbanization, economic and political policy. Currently, there are approximately one billion slum dwellers, representing approximately thirty percent of the global population. As evident, slums as a critical issue will remain in the upcoming decades. The discipline of architecture shoul...

This study explores a range of informal health-seeking behaviors, including the use of Fang Traditional Medicine (FTM) for medical or cultural afflictions in Equatorial Guinea (EQ), the therapeutic methods used, the health problems handled, the learning process, traditional medicine user profiles and the social images of Fang Traditional Healers (F...

La antropología es una disciplina muy consolidada en nuestro país. La producción propia de manuales ha alcanzado importantes niveles de excelencia a pesar de que los más usados han sido principalmente de factura extranjera. Este artículo es un texto descriptivo que tiene como finalidad primordial organizar y controlar los manuales de antropología e...

This presentation describes a concept for a self-sustaining community service for performing urban profiling and ethnographic data gathering from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) drone imagery enriched with data from Open Street Maps, Satellite Imagery, NASA SEDAC, Facebook Mobility Data, and Facebook Marketing Data. The service supports UN SDG 11.

Based on extensive ethnography, this article investigates how contemporary Finnish hospice patients talk – or remain silent – about their own approaching death, and the imageries relating to death and the possible afterlife. I explore how the thought of an afterlife may have informed patients’ orientations at the end of life, and how it touched on...

In 1957 there occurred a technological disaster in the Southern Urals in the form of a nuclear accident at the Mayak chemical plant in Ozersk, Soviet Union. The accident led to the resettlement of two historical centres of the first wave of the Russian colonization of the region, as the villages along the Techa river were declared restricted areas...

Narrative theory in translation studies has been mostly used to examine how translators (and more largely translation agents) mediate and refract meaning as they contribute to circulating political agendas across contexts and audiences. Building on this heritage but extending narrative theory beyond cross-language analysis, this paper proposes an e...

Despite the common assumption that ethnography is most successful where researchers achieve recognition as insiders within the communities they study, conducting research in nondemocracies inverts incentives to conduct ethnographic research as an insider and poses unexpected ethical risks to both researchers and respondents. Rather than increasing...

The English child protection system continues to be the focus of national commentary in light of several high-profile deaths and the recently published reports from the Review of Children’s Social Care, and the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel. Whilst narratives of ‘failure’, ‘betrayal’, and ‘scandalous incompetence’ perpetuate, these forgo...

People respond to social change in diverse ways that are shaped by socioeconomic conditions, ideologies, and other local and global factors. The effects of broader level changes such as globalization and urbanization are mostly studied from macroperspectives. A macroperspective does not primarily focus on how people respond to social change in thei...

Introducción: entre los elementos que componen el conocimiento disciplinar de enfermería se encuentran los modelos conceptuales, los que orientan el quehacer, por lo que es necesario conocer las estrategias metodológicas utilizadas para su construcción. Objetivo: analizar en el estado del arte disponible las estrategias metodológicas utilizadas par...

In this paper we report on ethnographic fieldwork of the work of cellular pathologists as they grapple with the twin innovations of transitioning to digital biopsy images and the prospects for the adoption of clinical decision support systems (CDSS). We explore how they are adapting to the former and their expectations of the latter. We use this ca...

"Liberal as a whole: a sociological analysis about the emergency of young political identities around liberalism in Paraíba". Abstract: This paper is part of a doctorate research that took place in the State of Paraiba between June 2016 and December 2018. The agents of this research are young college students that founded a liberal group of studies...

Introducción: las familias campesinas poseen apoyos sociales en varias dimensiones que proporcionan bienestar familiar. El objetivo fue comprender los apoyos sociales que tienen las familias campesinas del municipio de Villamaría (Caldas, Colombia) para mantener la salud. Método: etnografía interpretativa, muestreo intencional con observación parti...

Based on data produced through digital ethnography, we analyze how the interaction in a Brazilian blog allowed the production of subjectivities and agency services mediated by biomedical scientific practices directed to HIV/AIDS. The narratives highlighted scientific dissemination, sharing of information and experiences as elements in the processes...

In fact, the archive of research documents on Nguyen-era costumes has been very diverse and abundant compared to previous feudal dynasties, from original histories/artefacts to new studies in various aspects of scholars domestically and internationally. The appearance of the album Grande Tenue de la Cour d’Annam by artist Nguyen Van Nhan has filled...

It is a creative solution of how tourism and language is related to strengthen the tourism after the outbtreak of covid 19 pandemic. A view of how landscape linguistics (LL) can be a useful tool to investigate the use of written language on public signage at tourism destination to keep the tourist feel safe and comfort. The campaign of Cleanliness,...

This research brings together insights from philosophy, political theory, and consumer research in conceptualizing and empirically examining the social dimension of negative and positive freedom in consumption. Drawing from ethnographic observations and interviews with Moroccan women regarding their shopping at the supermarket, the findings detail...

Few intergenerational programs have focused on virtual learning. This paper explores the impact that a virtual intergenerational learning program had on primary school students and older adults at a residential aged care home. This study reports on the findings from a single case study design involving interactions across two sites, consisting of p...

O dossiê Franz Boas: Etnografia e Linguagem apresenta uma tradução da Introdução de Franz Boas ao Handbook of American Indian Languages (IHAIL), acompanhada por artigos que ajudam a contextualizar a obra e também esperam demonstrar que uma retomada da obra boasiana a partir de uma perspectiva crítica pode ser relevante para trabalhos interdisciplin...

En este texto se propone pensar de qué manera, un proyecto centrado en una ontología de la creación permite pensar la institución de una nueva manera de conocer: la etnografía. ¿Qué podría conectar los cien años del nacimiento de Castoriadis con el centenario de una obra como Los argonautas del pacífico occidental de Malinowski?, ¿cómo se discuten...

Within the neoliberal university, scholarship, education, students, academic staff, and practices are subordinated to managerial imperatives. University educators are denigrated and displaced by colonising neoliberal practices that systemically invalidate and invisibilise academic work. The present article provides an example of this by critically...

Although the United States has been a nation of immigrants since its founding, the massive number of asylum seekers arriving at the US-Mexico Border is a relatively new phenomenon that requires attention and study. This paper describes the lived experience of three asylum seekers, demonstrating how physical and mental health are structured by US po...

As a result of their religious understanding that is considered different by the dominant group (mainstream), Ahmadiyah - especially those of the Qadian faith - are often the object of persecution in Indonesia with hatecrime nuances. Persecution involves collaboration between community organizations as civil society and the state, forming the pheno...

The paper studies the emergence of venture philanthropy in public schools in Australia, focusing on policy networks and policy mobility. It seeks to analyse how policy is mobilised and leveraged via networks, focusing on the initiative of a national education charity with deductible gift recipient status, and a national research education institute...

In the last 20 years, the study of mind wandering has attracted the attention of a growing number of researchers from fields like psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. Mind wandering has been characterized in multiple ways: as task-unrelated, unintentional, stimulus-independent, or unguided thought processes. Those accounts have mostly focused...

This article proposes to study the mechanisms by which food, and particularly commensality, generates social ties. It mobilizes the conceptual framework of care, and is based on a qualitative methodology inspired by ethnography, to study neighborhood canteens. Two non-profit organizations were investigated, both having in common the willing to gene...

This article argues that our understanding of the sixteenth-century Jesuit encounter with Japan is improved by taking into account the role gender played in cultural translation. Recent histories of the mission and the writings it produced have highlighted the strategies adopted by Jesuits to rely on and manipulate knowledge of local cultures to fa...

Time is not merely a framework condition for social practice; rather, specific temporalities emerge in and through social practice and this, of course, also applies to the social practice in adult education and learning. This article raises the methodological question of how these educational temporalities can be empirically examined, specifically...

Indonesia merupakan negara yang paling majemuk baik dari sisi sosio-kultural maupun geografis. Hal ini menyebabkan Indonesia menjadi salah satu negara multikultural terbesar di dunia. Indonesia saat ini memiliki sekitar 13.000 pulau besar dan kecil, jumlah penduduk lebih dari 200 juta jiwa dengan 300 suku yang menggunakan hampir 200 bahasa berbeda....

Tourism strategies implemented all over the world have often been demonstrably far from sustainable. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its dramatic effects on the tourism sector worldwide present a unique transformative opportunity to reframe tourism in more sustainable ways. This article uses qualitative research methods and ethnography to...

Mientras que, para algunos exponentes de la etnografía crítica y la pedagogía, la reflexividad, entendida como la influencia mutua y dinámica entre el etnógrafo y el campo de investigación se convierte en una ética en sí misma, y por tanto en un criterio para la investigación emancipadora, para otros, la ética de muchos compañeros docentes deja...

El libro Los argonautas del Pacífico occidental de Bronislaw Malinowski, sin duda alguna, es el referente inaugural del método etnográfico. Se constituyó como opción epistemológica de la antropología y, progresivamente, como recurso metodológico para otras disciplinas. Este artículo hace referencia al lugar de algunos aspectos de la etnografía mali...

Water management among the Chagga people of Kilimanjaro has involved community collaboration in the construction, ownership and management of water infrastructures. Since the second half of the second millennium AD, the Chagga settlement on the lower slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro significantly transformed the landscape to reflect an agrarian society cha...

Resumo: O Debate decolonial e pós colonial ganha visibilidade na academia ao atrair olhares para uma episteme contemporânea que questiona sobre os intelectuais trabalhados no âmbito dessa, bem como a versão da história hegemônica. O objetivo de autores como Spivak (2010) e Mbembe (2001) é discutir a capacidade do subalterno de se representar, e, pa...

Maksud yang ingin dicapai dalam penelitian ini adalah untuk memberikan uraian dalam bentuk deskriptif dan menganalisis serta memberikan interpretasi pada cakupan: 1. Pengembangan kelembagaan PPMB (Pondok Pesantren Bahrul Maghfiroh) Malang melalui spirit entrepreneur santri, 2. Proses pelaksanaan pengembangan kelembagaan pondok pesantren Bahrul Magh...

A mídia independente surge como uma forma alternativa de noticiar. Este trabalho mostrará como as coberturas do Mídia Ninja se opõem a outras mídias alternativas, quando noticiaram o ato político "Ceará pelas diretas", organizado por coletivos culturais. Evidenciará ainda como outras mídias se apropriaram do conteúdo gerado pelo Mídia Ninja para de...

Organization culture is a potential antecedent and moderator of prosocial behaviors at work. So, what is currently known about the prosocial-culture-work nexus? Studies of this nexus may be predicted to exist in the form of research on organization cultures of three types. One would be studies of specific organization cultures representing espoused...

Merantau merupakan upaya yang tepat untuk memperoleh bahasa kedua, bahkan juga budaya kedua. Seringkali perantau hanya membawa oleh-oleh berupa bahasa dan budaya baru saat mudik ke kampung halaman. Tulisan ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan bagaimana proses pemerolehan bahasa kedua di perantauan dan berbagai faktor yang mempengaruhinya serta bagaimana p...

In this article, we examine the constructive democratic practices of young climate activists and their views on how democracy should be improved. We study how the youth climate movement is expressing utopias of democracy. Utopias are thought to be central to imagining more just societies. Furthermore, they enable critical analysis of existing socia...

In this paper, we study the interactional organization of an instructed object exploration among sighted and visually impaired people (VIPs) in order to contribute to studies of instructional activities and the observable accomplishment of haptic perception. We do this by showing the situated, interactional, and co-operative organization of achievi...

[Бг по-долу.] The neighbourhood of Stolipinovo in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, is an example of the marginalisation of an urban district as a result of the racialised minority status of the communities inhabiting it. This article focuses on the materiality and the management of household waste in the neighbourhood, showing how marginalisation is produced, re...

The article focusses on communication and discursive practices in private family proceedings with the aim of exploring procedural barriers obstructing court users from sharing their stories and having their voice heard. Drawing on survey and interview data in combination with the linguistically driven empirical method – ethnography of communication...

Divorce emerges as a phenomenon in counterpoint to marriage, both terms representing processes or phases of interaction punctuated by moments of completion and transition to further phases. We can make an initial distinction between divorce, viewed as undoing of preceding phases, and marriage, viewed as prospective of moving into a new relationship...

Plantas medicinales comercializadas en la plaza de mercado del sur en Tunja, Boyacá. Resumen Este artículo da cuenta de una investigación cualitativa con enfoque etnográfico que busca identificar algunas de las plantas comercializadas en la plaza del sur de Tunja; lugar que se caracteriza por ser la central de acopio de diferentes productos regiona...

Estudos etnográficos exercem interesses polissêmicos em investigadores qualitativos da saúde – defrontados pelo fascínio teórico versus a praticabilidade e a transferibilidade em seus campos de atuação. Partindo da experiência no âmbito hospitalar oncológico, objetivou-se, neste artigo, refletir sobre o desenvolvimento de pesquisas etnográficas foc...

La recherche-action-participative Capdroits vise à réduire les inégalités de pouvoir inhérentes aux injustices épistémiques en proposant des modalités de recherche symétrisant les savoirs des personnes concernées par des situations de handicap, de maladie ou de dépendances, des acteur·e·s de la relation d’aide et de soin (proches ou professionnel·l...

Las redes digitales y la industria de la moda han ido tejiendo una relación estrecha en los últimos años. La pandemia, producto del COVID-19, implicó modificaciones y tránsitos hacia otros formatos al interior de la industria en México, potenció esta relación con ciertos hitos y formas de habitar el mundo digital, así como nuevas estrategias de mar...

In a special issue in Ethnography, the question was raised how to study violence eth-nographically in Latin America and the Caribbean. The present article seeks to extend this special issue with reflections on how to study different forms of violence 'after the fact', based on fieldwork at a juvenile detention centre in Curaçao in 2019 and 2020. We...