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The article takes the publication, in 2009, of The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies and The Sociology of Tourism: European Origins and Developments - two anthologies that review how tourism has been studied in the social sciences - as an opportunity to discuss the traditions represented and defended in each of these books, namely: a transatlantic Anglophone tradition, and a European continental one. Some of the main tendencies are identified, so as to propose, in the end, the "rematerialization" of tourism studies through the adoption of a local point of view that focuses on the practices, but is also sensitive to the asymmetries that are visible (or not) from the ground. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I refer to three episodes that occurred during my fieldwork in the Portuguese-Galician border (2000-2004). On the one hand I reflect globally on ethnography as a social and an individual experience, and, on the other hand, I approach methodological and ethical limits that were imposed or exceeded during that period. These episodes, which were an outcome of specific social interactions and relations, kept me in distinct experiential frontiers. Eventually they caused strangeness and functioned as mirrors, reflecting a circumstantial presence that interrupted the "normality" of that fieldwork setting in an anthropology that, apparently, took place "at home". The text turns to be a significant contribution to fieldwork practicing, not only and in particular considering the study of the contemporary Portuguese rural world but also because it reveals the multiple interactions in which the anthropologist engages with when in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on ethnographic research, this article focuses on the presence of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Italy, where it operates under the name Chiesa Cristiana dello Spirito Santo (CCSS). It discusses the case of the UCKG in Italy with emphasis on its strong proselytism and deployment strategy, and its relationship with immigrants, Brazilian and from other ethnic minorities, and Italian nationals. The most successful example of transnationatization of Brazilian Protestantism in this Pentecostal trend and present on five continents, the UCKG-CCSS in Italy is analyzed trough an anthropological approach in the context of the Brazilian diaspora and the "reverse mission", two very important phenomena and of great interest for the social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a first attempt at reconstructing naming practices in early modern Portugal. Different kinds of sources (Inquisition records and local census materials, both ecclesiastical and military) are used to trace the emergence, in the Sixteenth Century, of a model based on the combination of personal names and family names, transmissible from one generation to the next. This process is analyzed within a broader time-frame (from the Roman period), and appears to indicate the specificity of Iberian models within the European context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]