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Conceptual colour: race, economic knowledge, and the anthropology of financialization De la couleur comme concept : race, connaissances économiques et anthropologie de la financiarisation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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Mündü language and culture: the current state of research [PDF]

, 2008
The article outlines the ethnography and the socio-linguistic situation of the Mündü with focus on the sociolinguistic situation and on the endangerment of their language.
Pasch, Helma
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

Pour une ethnographie coopérative - Enquêter dans le monde de l'assistance aux personnes sans-abri [PDF]

, 2016
International audienceCet article de valorisation de la recherche revient sur ce que le sociologue Isaac Joseph nomme l'"ethnographie coopérative". A partir de références sociologiques et d'une enquête de terrain (sur l'alcool dans une structure médico ...
Uribelarrea, Gabriel
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Expanding the Methodological Repertoire in Institutional Ethnography: A Design Sociology Approach to Mapping and Visualizing Invisible Work

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article presents a novel methodological approach in which institutional ethnography borrows from design sociology. Although mapping is a core component of institutional ethnography, previous research highlights opportunities to further develop mapping techniques as both an analytical tool and a means of presenting research findings ...
Anna Isaksson
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Claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’: migrant care workers in ageing Shanghai Revendiquer la parenté par le « cœur filial » : travailleurs migrants du care dans Shanghai vieillissante

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 132-149, March 2026.
Drawing on the ethnography of migrant care workers in eldercare in Shanghai, this article reveals the evolving landscape of caregiving and kinship practices in contemporary China. The ethnography presents the emic perspective of care workers, who actively develop symbolic trajectories for claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’ in caregiving.
Xinyuan Wang
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Rückkehr des Autors? : Literatur und kulturelle Autorität in der interkulturellen Kommunikation [PDF]

, 2008
Während ihrer Feldforschung in Nigeria erzählt die Ethnologin Laura Bohannan den Stammesmitgliedern der Tiv die Geschichte von Hamlet […] Ihre eigene sowie die europäische Interpretationsautorität überhaupt werden ihr von den Stammesältesten aus der Hand
Bachmann-Medick, Doris
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Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 32-54, March 2026.
Abstract In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man) from 1950 to 2018, we discuss selected findings from the deployment of two methods for computational text analysis, namely ...
Kristoffer Albris, Matei Candea, Thyge Enggaard, Terne Sasha Thorn Jakobsen, Morten Axel Pedersen   +4 more
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5. Die Arbeit am Datenkorpus: Codierungsprozesse und die Konturierung von Ergebnissen im ethnographischen Forschungsprozess [PDF]

, 2018
Der Beitrag reflektiert die analytische Arbeit mit den Verschriftlichungen teilnehmender Beobachtungen. Am Beispiel einer Studie zu pädagogischen Angeboten in Kindertageseinrichtungen zeigt der Beitrag auf, wie sich auf Basis der Grounded Theory beim ...
Flämig, Katja
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From the manager's point of view: work intensification, posthuman ethnography, and healthcare in England Du point de vue des managers : intensification du travail, ethnographie post‐humaine et soins de santé en Angleterre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 75-93, March 2026.
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a hospital in Greater Manchester, England in 2016–17, we describe how a set of national health priorities were translated into work for hospital managers and clinicians during a period of significant organizational pressure.
Adam Brisley, Simon Bailey, Thomas Blakeman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source