During the past decade, Ethnology, like many other disciplines in humanities, indulged in a somewhat anxious self-reflection. The methodological and spatial differences between subjects like Ethnology, Anthropology and History have almost disappeared and
Helena Hörnfeldt
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On the carrying stream into the European mountain: Roots and routes of creative (Scottish) ethnology
Since 2016, a diverse network of academic researchers, creative practitioners and cultural activists has emerged in Scotland, keen to explore the potential of a “creative ethnology”.
Ullrich Kockel, Mairi McFadyen
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Ethnological research of the city Brno: Stability and metamorphosis of Moravian metropolis [PDF]
The contribution aims to describe development of the ethnological research of the City Brno as the part of Czech - and former Czechoslovak - urban ethnology. Shortened it deals with the beginnings of research in 50ies of the 20th century, with methods
Pospišilova Jana
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Preliminary Comments on Dog Interments from Archeological Sites in Northeast Texas: Folklore and Archeology [PDF]
Dogs have been associated with humans for thousands of years, and dog interments—either associated with human interments or as separate interments—also have an antiquity of thousands of years.
Todd, Jesse
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Death, Women, and "Value Production": The Circulation of Hair Strings among the Walpiri of the Central Australian Desert [PDF]
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Glowczewski, Barbara
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Darker Logos Are Seen as For‐Profits and Lighter Logos as Nonprofits
ABSTRACT Consumers infer an organization's identity from visual cues to form judgments about its purpose. This study shows that logo color lightness serves as a signal of organizational orientation: consumers perceive lighter‐colored logos as representing nonprofits, and darker‐colored logos as representing for‐profits.
Myungjin C. Smale, Tausif Utchhash
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Affines, Ambiguity, and Meaning in Hokkien Kin Terms [PDF]
This is a publisher's version of an article published in the journal Ethnology in 1981. The offprint is posted here in accordance with existing publisher policy, or by special permission via correspondence ...
Weller, Robert
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MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration
We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross‐species database facilitates comparative research into the eco‐evolutionary drivers of animal behaviour. We describe its management and share its resources as a replicable
Delphine De Moor+91 more
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Social Contradiction and Symbolic Resolution: Practical and Idealized Affines in Taiwan [PDF]
This is a publisher's version of an article published in the journal Ethnology in 1984. The offprint is posted here in accordance with existing publisher policy, or by special permission via correspondence ...
Weller, Robert
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In this article, I delve into the field diary of Ma Changshou – a major Chinese ethnohistorian and social anthropologist active between the 1930s and 1960s – to show how his journeys through Liangshan, a mountainous land in Southwest China inhabited by the Nuosu‐Yi, led to a new kind of anthropological knowledge.
Jan Karlach
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