David Graeber: Anthropology, anarchy, activism
Forum in memory of David Graeber. Contributions by Patrícia Alves de Matos, Stefano Boni, Dimitris Dalakoglou, Alessandro Deiana, Nika Dubrovsky.
Category: Multilingual
Remembering through suffering: Agency, nostalgia and mourning in the Turkish left
Based on an ethnography conducted in Istanbul, this article analyses nostalgia and the perpetuation of mourning among former leftist militants of revolutionary organizations, who were the main targets of the political repression following the 1980-1983…
Struggling lives and symbolic boundaries: Violence, young people and trauma in post-conflict Belfast
In Belfast, despite everyone knowing the conventional date that put an end to the Northern Irish conflict, commonly known as The Troubles, many people still suffer from its legacies to this day. In this article, I consider both post-conflict dynamics a…
Self-harm in Turin’s Centre for undocumented migrants (CPR): The camp, agency, and subjectivation
Italian detention centres for undocumented migrants (Centri di Permanenza per il Rimpatrio – CPRs) have received little attention in the field of social sciences. This article focuses on the issue of self-harm, unanimously reported to be a very frequen…
Not even a word: Politics of speech and silence in Palestinian memories
This article explores the memories of female Palestinian former political prisoners, via a rethinking of the interrogation moment as liminal space. This arena reveals and triggers productive processes of recognition of self and other, construction of m…
Antonello Ricci, ed, L’eredità rivisitata: Storie di un’antropologia in stile italiano, Roma, CISU, 2019, pp. 655
Book review of Antonello Ricci, ed, L’eredità rivisitata: Storie di un’antropologia in stile italiano, Roma, CISU, 2019, pp. 655.
Francisco Martínez, Lili Di Puppo, Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds, Peripheral methodologies: Unlearning, not-knowing and ethnographic limits, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 199
Book review of Francisco Martínez, Lili Di Puppo, Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds, Peripheral methodologies: Unlearning, not-knowing and ethnographic limits, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 199.
Douglas R. Holmes, Integralismi europei: Capitalismo veloce, multiculturalismo, neofascismo, edizione italiana e traduzione a cura di Berardino Palumbo e Giovanni Pizza, Milano, Meltemi, 2020, pp. 382
Book review of Douglas R. Holmes, Integralismi europei: Capitalismo veloce, multiculturalismo, neofascismo, edizione italiana e traduzione a cura di Berardino Palumbo e Giovanni Pizza, Milano, Meltemi, 2020, pp. 382.
Carlo Capello, Giovanni Semi, eds, Torino: Un profilo etnografico, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 268
Book review of Carlo Capello, Giovanni Semi, eds, Torino: Un profilo etnografico, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 268.
Constantin Bărbulescu, Physicians, peasants and modern medicine: Imagining rurality in Romania, 1860-1910, translated by Angela Jianu, Budapest, Central European University Press, 2019, pp. 308
Book review of Constantin Bărbulescu, Physicians, peasants and modern medicine: Imagining rurality in Romania, 1860-1910, translated by Angela Jianu, Budapest, Central European University Press, 2019, pp. 308.
Fabiana Dimpflmeier, Il giro lungo di Lamberto Loria: Le origini papuane dell’etnografia italiana, Roma, CISU, 2020, pp. 383
Book review of Fabiana Dimpflmeier, Il giro lungo di Lamberto Loria: Le origini papuane dell’etnografia italiana, Roma, CISU, 2020, pp. 383.
Carlo Capello, Ai margini del lavoro: Un’antropologia della disoccupazione a Torino, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2020, pp. 182
Book review of Carlo Capello, Ai margini del lavoro: Un’antropologia della disoccupazione a Torino, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2020, pp. 182.
Jean-Louis Tornatore, ed, Le patrimoine comme expérience: Implications anthropologiques, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2019, pp. 298
Book review of Jean-Louis Tornatore, ed, Le patrimoine comme expérience: Implications anthropologiques, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2019, pp. 298.
Silvia Vignato, Le figlie delle catastrofi: Un’etnografia della crescita nella ricostruzione di Aceh, Milano, Ledizioni, 2020, pp. 247
Book review of Silvia Vignato, Le figlie delle catastrofi: Un’etnografia della crescita nella ricostruzione di Aceh, Milano, Ledizioni, 2020, pp. 247.
Editorial
A note from the Editor-in-chief.
Compte-rendu de L’alimentation au fil des saisons, la saisonnalité des pratiques alimentaires, sous la direction d’Adamiec, Julien et Régnier
Camille Adamiec, Marie-Pierre Julien & Faustine Régnier (ed.) 2020. L’alimentation au fil des saisons. La saisonnalité des pratiques alimentaires. Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais, Collection Tables des Hommes : Tours. 206 p.
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Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.36 No.2-3
Published: December 2020.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.36 No.2-3
Published: December 2020.
Compte-rendu de Céline Lesourd : Puissance khat, Vie politique d’une plante stimulante
LESOURD Céline, 2019. Puissance khat. Vie politique d’une plante stimulante. Paris: PUF, 384 p. Bibl., glossaire.
Le khat, de son nom scientifique Catha edulis, est un arbre dont les feuilles riches en alcaloïdes produisent chez ceux qui l…
Boisseaux de riz et billets de banque
La valeur, cette propriété des objets et des personnes, apparaît dans les rapports sociaux de toutes formes, mais l’alimentation en compose un espace privilégié de redéfinition. Se concentrer sur la trajectoire d’un aliment permet ainsi de décri…
La participación de ciudadanos en el desarrollo de un proyecto de seguridad alimentaria desde una perspectiva reflexiva
Este artículo analiza, a través de un enfoque etnográfico, la participación ciudadana en un proyecto de seguridad alimentaria que se ha desarrollado durante diez años en un barrio de bajos ingresos en Montreal (Canadá). El “Système alimentaire p…
Précarisation alimentaire, résistances individuelles et expériences pratiques: regards locaux, régionaux, transnationaux
Dans ce numéro monographique, nous présentons, au travers des différents articles, les résultats de la recherche intitulée « L’alimentation selon une perspective globale et non réductionniste des besoins » , commencée en 2015 et coordonnée par l…
À part entière : alimentation et bien-être chez des personnes âgées à Montréal fréquentant des organismes d’aide alimentaire
Dans les écrits sur l’alimentation, l’accent est souvent mis sur la capacité à avoir accès aux aliments, et ce, tant en quantité qu’en qualité. Suivant la perspective des personnes âgées, le présent article suggère que d’autres dimensions devrai…
Bringing equality down to earth: food, identity reduction and the five dimensions of well-being
Social inequality operates through the reduction of identity, with individual life stories, current life situations and hopes for the future often collapsed into a single, generally negatively connoted characteristic attributed to the group with…
Food poverty in Tuscany: local public policies and (good) practices
Despite the reduction of hunger on an international scale, particularly in areas traditionally characterized by malnutrition, recent years have seen an increase in problems relating to food access precisely in those countries which considered th…