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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 390-411, June 2026.This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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Qualitative Sociology, 2022 The basic practice of ethnography has essentially remained unchanged in hundreds of years. How has online life changed things? I contrast two transformative inventions, the telephone and the internet, with respect to their impact on fieldwork. I argue that our current era has created entirely new constraints and opportunities for ethnographic research.
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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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Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Volume 71, Issue 2, Page 460-484, April 2026.Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
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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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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 +4 more
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Anthropological Quarterly, 2004 ila Abu-Lughod's Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt joins a steadily growing body of ethnographies on the effects of mass media. In this case the focus is mainly on how two communities of women— maids employed by wealthy, mostly foreign, patrons in Cairo, and rural vil- lagers—respond to narrative genres.
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La recherche collaborative en ethnologie : est-elle toujours possible, et éthique?
Canadian Journal of BioethicsIl existe aujourd’hui une importante quantité de lignes directrices à suivre si l’on veut faire de la recherche éthique en contexte autochtone. Dans la pratique, même avec la meilleure volonté, il est difficile de démêler ce à quoi il faut se conformer ...
Marie-Pierre Bousquet
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 55-74, March 2026.In European animal welfare inspection on farms and at slaughter, inspectors encounter moral challenges that reveal the paradox at the heart of animal welfare. Against the harsh realities of industrial agriculture, not only are their idealized notions of animal wellbeing unrealizable, but inspectors are instrumental in perpetuating standards of welfare ...
Eimear Mc Loughlin
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Pour une ontologie de l’hybridité techno-communicationnelle
Interfaces Numériques, 2018 La nouvelle communication technique est proposée depuis des décennies comme synonyme d’une circulation transversale des savoirs, d’un développement plus inclusif, du triomphe des logiques participatives et collaboratives, etc.
Edgar Charles Mbanza
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