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, 2021 El Bombín, también conocido como Bowler, Coke, Billy Coke o Billycock o Derby, tiene una fascinante historia ligada a su nombre y origen. Este peculiar sombrero se remonta a su creación en 1849, siendo ideado por Thomas Bowler de Lock & Co, una ...
Etnografía, Laboratorio
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Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 233-243, June 2025.Abstract In West Africa, certain objects can act in the world and interact with people as subjects. Labeled “fetishes” by Europeans, these material things have generated centuries of debates on the nature of their agency. In this article, I rely on participant fieldwork as a student in a group of initiated donso hunters in Burkina Faso, which involved ...
Lorenzo Ferrarini
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Friction in the field: Milpa, missionary, and scales of refusal in 1960s highland Guatemala
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 266-277, June 2025.Abstract This article takes a scalar view of “friction” (Tsing 2005) and “refusal” (Ortner 1995) between ethnography and the archive. The concept of friction was originally formulated in the context of a globalizing world, but friction's perception and experience are highly local.
Mallory E. Matsumoto
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 339-352, June 2025.Abstract In this article I evoke key elements of my Italian grandmother's life—her knitwear workshop, her practice as a tailor, and her sensorial engagements with bodies and dress—and interweave them with reflections from my fieldwork in Milan, Italy.
Cristina Moretti
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 308-318, June 2025.Abstract Anthropologists often consider the distinction from our interlocutors a barrier, assuming that overcoming the distance allows us to understand our interlocutors. Other times, ethnographers intentionally maintain ethnographic distance to avoid “doing harm” to our interlocutors.
Chaoxiong Zhang, Yang Zhan
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Motherhood amidst reprimands and advice: Parenting and class in Rio de Janeiro
Ethos, Volume 53, Issue 2, June 2025.Abstract The article explores how the moralization of women mothers in contemporary Brazil reinforces structural inequalities. The analysis focuses on two forms of communication: reprimands and advice directed from experts toward mothers or circulated between mothers of young children in two different social contexts in the city of Rio de Janeiro ...
Laura Lowenkron, Camila Fernandes
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A Etnografia da Infraestrutura
Revista anthropológicas, 2020 Este artigo mobiliza algumas ferramentas e perspectivas da etnografia para tencionar questões metodológicas no estudo das infraestruturas. Sendo ao mesmo tempo relacionais e ecológicas, as infraestruturas tem significados diferentes para os diferentes ...
S. L. Star
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El sombrero de Copa, también conocido como Galera o Chistera, tiene una rica historia y versatilidad en su uso. Se remonta a su creación en 1797, acreditada a John Hetherington, originario de Inglaterra.
Etnografía, Laboratorio
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Ensayos de etnografía teórica. Andes
, 2021 Reseña crítica del libro "Ensayos de etnografía teórica. Andes"
Apipilhuasco Miranda, María Fernanda +1 more
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT Data from archaeology, ethnography, and ethnohistory document entanglements of dogs among South American Indigenous societies during pre‐Columbian and colonial times. The prolific presence and uses of dogs in the Central Andes and in parts of the Paraná Basin, Patagonia, and Circum‐Caribbean regions contrast with the conspicuous lack of ...
Marcelo R. Sánchez‐Villagra +2 more
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