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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 509-516, September 2025.ABSTRACT In the Sicilian town of Palermo, two main languages are spoken, Italian and Sicilian. But people are often unwilling to consider Sicilian a language, taking it instead as an inferior “dialect.” Linguistic choice is associated with two broad, competing discourses about Sicilian culture and ethnicity: discourses of heritage on the one hand and ...
Paola Tiné
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Patrimonio e Identidad en la Investigación Educativa Basada en las Artes desde un Enfoque Multimodal
Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 2016 Este artículo describe dos experiencias de investigación de nuestro grupo interconectadas, la primera desarrollada durante el año 2007 a través del proyecto internacional CALVINO del Programa Cultura 2000 de la Unión Europea, y la segunda implementada ...
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Parto en casa: conocimientos y saberes de mujeres y matronas en Santiago de Chile
Musas, 2021 Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo general indagar en los conocimientos y saberes que se dan en la atención contemporánea del parto en casa planificado con asistencia profesional, según las mujeres y matronas que participan en la Asociación Gremial ...
Yennifer Márquez-Mosquera
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 623-628, September 2025.ABSTRACT In this essay, I draw on both autoethnography and ethnographic research among college students studying their Heritage Language (HL)—or Heritage Language Learners (HLLs)—at a US university. I explore the felt contradictions and tensions that get voiced when attempting to navigate the uneasy relationship between two terms: “mother tongue” and ...
Arnaaz Khwaja
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 131-139, March 2025.Abstract This article is an autoethnographic exploration of life in the former steel mill region of Southeast Chicago in the ‘Rust Belt’ of the Midwestern United States. It challenges assumptions about deindustrialization that depict one discrete historical stage following another (i.e., the postindustrial following the industrial) in favor of what is ...
Christine J. Walley
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Déjame hablar más fuerte que mis cicatrices
Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad: Revista Latinoamericana, 2021 En este artículo, elegí el método autoetnográfico para narrar un proceso posoperatorio que cambió mi vida, recopilé una serie de emociones, impresiones, poemas y documentos recopilados durante aproximadamente dos años de recuperación.
Bernardo Oliveira
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A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 168-175, March 2025.Abstract In this paper, I consider how one writes an ethnographic memoir about memories, time, and our fieldwork when our memories, or our interlocutors’ memories, are unreliable, inconsistent, false, or simply missing. Reflecting on a brain injury that resulted during fieldwork, my (dis)ordered memories, and the intense reliance on memory in ...
Denielle Elliott
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“Hay supervivientes”: contar una historia de muerte súbita
Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad: Revista Latinoamericana, 2021 Este artículo es la narración personal del drama familiar ocurrido tras la muerte de mi hermano en un accidente aéreo. Historias “verdaderas” como esta se encajan en el limite de la ficción y las ciencias sociales, uniendo escritura etnográfica y ...
Carolyn Ellis, Natânia Lopes
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 149-157, March 2025.Abstract This article tells the story of my research on Dutch wax cloth, a highly prized textile and cultural artifact in Togo, my home country. I examine the fate of the cloth and of the Togolese women who made it into an object of great significance in the wake of political upheaval starting in the late 1980s, the same upheaval that led to my family ...
Amah Edoh
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Unsettling the self: Autoethnography and related kin
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 121-130, March 2025.Abstract Autoethnography, intimate ethnography, and ethnographic memoir have become increasingly central modes of anthropological writing. Although this trend has historical precedents, as found in the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Ruth Behar, and others, this two‐part special section explores the directions this work is taking, the potential ...
Christine J. Walley, Denielle Elliott
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