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The most European place in St. Petersburg: the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography between the Past and the Future

EtnoAntropologia, 2018
The article presents a short survey of the history of Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (MAE RAS).
Efim Rezvan
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Navigating policy in (trans)action: A methodological framework for situated and relational policy practices

European Policy Analysis, Volume 11, Issue 4, Page 505-523, Fall 2025.
Abstract This paper presents a methodological framework to study situated and relational policy practices in the context of the policy transaction perspective. Building on policy ethnography, it addresses the entanglements of researching policy transactions through triangulation of methods to explore how practices emerge, and how they are “seen ...
Szilvia Nagy
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Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 4, Page 746-756, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper follows the implementation of landmine detection rats in Cambodia. Over the course of my ethnographic fieldwork with the team for the landmine detection rat technique training in Cambodia, I saw that the way the human landmine detectors (a.k.a.
Darcie DeAngelo
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Almadiak Zaraitzu eta Ezka ibaietan barrena XX. mendearen lehen erdian: euskarazko lekukotasunak

Fontes Linguae Vasconum
XX. mendearen lehen erdian amaitu zen Zaraitzun eta Erronkaribarren (Nafarroa) egurra almadien bidez errekan behera garraiatzeko ohitura. Lan hori nola egiten zen hobeki ezagutzeko, duela hamarkada zenbait ibar horietako zenbait biztanleri egindako ...
Koldo Artola Kortajarena
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Comunidades proscritas. Una reflexión sobre las posibilidades de la etnografía virtual

Athenea Digital, 2020
Asiduos de prácticas profanas y malditas socialmente se dan cita en el mundo online, formando comunidades que difícilmente hubiesen surgido fuera de la red.
Álvaro Suárez-Vergne
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Toward an Ethnography of God

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 541-551, September 2025.
ABSTRACT In recent years, anthropologists and theologians have been engaging in conversation with one another. Building on, and branching out from, that conversation, this article calls for a careful ethnographic engagement with not just “God talk” (the literal meaning of theology) but also with the figure of God itself.
Amira Mittermaier
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TOUCHED BY DEEP TIME: Earthquake Sickness in Mexico City

Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 463-492, August 2025.
ABSTRACT In Mexico City, earthquakes are so frightening that they make residents sick. Sometimes referred to as being tocado (touched), the illness might be considered part of the “culture‐bound syndrome” known as susto throughout the Spanish‐speaking Americas, where acute experiences of shock—such as being trapped in a shaking building—induce chronic ...
LACHLAN SUMMERS
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A etnografia na ciência da informação: um método para espaços virtuais

Encontros Bibli, 2019
Este artigo expõe um breve panorama do desenvolvimento da etnografia como método de pesquisa qualitativa em diferentes áreas sociais. Apresentam-se alguns conceitos da etnografia aplicada em ambientes virtuais, assim como as principais características ...
Luis Carlos Pérez Martínez, Adriana Rosecler Alcará, Silvana Drumond Monteiro   +2 more
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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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