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This article shows how untouchability was framed as an ethnographic problem largely through a racial and Brahmanical perspective by looking at some of the main interventions made by British and Indian social scientists on this topic, such as H.H. Risley, G.S. Ghurye and Radhakamal Mukerjee. Dalit traditions, knowledge and theories about their origin were discarded and suffered an epistemicide. Reassessing the history of untouchability as an ethnographic concept is critical as the influence of these theories can still be perceived not only in common understandings about the origin of Dalits but also in the way sociology and anthropology are practised in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his study Storycraft, the veteran American journalist Jack Hart asks the following questions about reportage, memoir and other forms of nonfiction writing that proceed from the first-person perspective of their author: 'Where's the storyteller standing? What can he see and hear? Whose story is it, anyway?' (Hart, 2021, Storycraft: The complete guide to writing narrative nonfiction (p. 39). University of Chicago Press). The questions are suggestive of the formal and creative decisions reportage practitioners must make, but also of their ethical obligations to fairly represent their human subjects, especially if they are vulnerable, underprivileged and/or marginalized. The hinting at viewpoint – 'whose story...' – might also make us think about how identity is constructed from the stories we tell about ourselves and about our interactions with the world. This paper addresses all these issues primarily, though not exclusively, through the prism of Coast of Teeth, a practice-based visual and textual reportage project we completed in late 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the necessity of proposing an epistemological approach that focuses on both essential and empirical features of culture. Phenomenology, as we find in Edmund Husserl, is introduced as the main methodology enabling us to establish invariant or essential principles of human culture. We explain how phenomenology analyzes consciousness and its structures, showing a different approach from empirical studies of culture, such as cultural anthropology. Despite these epistemological divergencies, we argue that phenomenology and anthropology should collaborate, and we illustrate this through an analysis of particular Jewish rituals, as an instance of anthropological descriptions and phenomenological analysis. In the first part of the paper, we provide a brief introduction to phenomenology, by outlining the most important concepts to understand this methodology, such as intentionality, constitution, and experiential layers. In the second part, we will use the previous essential analysis of culture as guidelines to analyze a concrete culture, like Judaism, with a focus on specific rituals. While analyzing Judaism unavoidably requires empirical observations in their various forms, phenomenology provides us with a method through which enucleating universal principles underlying contextual and historical elements, which need to be considered as invariant in each human group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of corruption is historically linked to religion, but research on the relationship between religion and corruption is scarce, coming mainly from the fields of economics and statistics, and partially from anthropology and cultural studies. This article aims to offer a critical review of the relevant international literature on religion, religiosity, and corruption, ranging from large, quantitative comparative studies to more focused and in-depth qualitative case studies. It critically reviews the main results and identifies knowledge gaps that could be addressed by future research. Moreover, it discusses the importance of further research in the European area in light of some features of religion and corruption in Europe, as well as recent changes in the religious panorama of the continent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The identification of socioculturally important "keywords" remains a distinctive feature of critical social theory. This article asks why this is so while offering a critique of "keyword projects" as they have been formulated and pursued across cultural studies and anthropology. Such projects often remain inattentive to wider patterns of sign relations, concealing from ethnographic view the very patterns within which key "words" emerge and are embedded. Overlooking these patterns precludes finer‐grained considerations of what makes certain words situationally "key" within sociocultural life. Engaging with migrant mobilities across the borderlands and borderwaters of Indonesia and Malaysia, the article examines keywords not simply as sociocultural formations or semiotic regularities, per se, but as captions for and construals of fashions of speaking and forms of life. Connecting hitherto unconnected accounts of "rapport," it illustrates how anthropologists might move beyond "keyword talk" to more fully consider how rapport configures anthropological assumptions about "keyness" itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the early-twentieth century, Palestinian physician and ethnographer Tawfiq Canaan published roughly forty-five studies on the cultural and narrative traditions of the largest section of Palestinian society, the fellaheen (peasantry). In this article, the author examines how Canaan's expansive collection of stories related to holy sites across Palestine in Mohammedan Saints and Sanctuaries in Palestine (1927) produces a provocative literary cartography—a narrative that operates much like a map. In so doing, she contends that Canaan both contests orientalist constructions of the Holy Land as frozen in biblical time and, critically, unsettles the very spatiotemporal logic governing dominant colonial narrations of place. This epistemic shift, the author concludes, is the result of Canaan's recentering of Indigenous Palestinian place-based knowledge as both the subject and method of his study. This approach offers instructive lessons applicable within and beyond the disciplinary, regional, and temporal boundaries that have so far circumscribed the study and reception of Canaan's work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: As an interdisciplinary research area at the interface of management theory, psychology, sociology, social anthropology, and cultural studies, organizational behavior (OB) still lacks a clear definition, whereas its status and scope have not been precisely determined. Some experts believe that the knowledge of all possible instances of OB and its constant improvement is the key to the proper calibration of management techniques, organizational dynamics, and more active staff. Others stress that OB has lost its significance and authority as an academic discipline. Purpose: The goal of the research is to develop an approach that complements and further develops concepts comprising OB theory as regards the identification of micro-, meso-, and macro-organizational behavior actors - individuals, groups, teams, the organization itself, and its external stakeholders. Study design/methodology/approach: The authors provide a solid framework for the principle of methodological isomorphism and its application to the indicators of OB - measures of organizational actions. Further, a possibility for the methodological integration of tools for managing the OB of all categories of actors is demonstrated. Findings/conclusions: An original definition of OB management is offered and justified. The focus is on the strategic context of efforts to improve OB. A strategy map used in OB management is provided as an illustration. It is concluded that the sustainable success of an organization heavily depends on how stakeholders (actors) perceive the efforts of the management to enhance working conditions and the organizational culture of the work environment, as well as to strengthen the market leadership of the organization. Limitations/future research: The research limitations lie in the scope of methodological challenges which need to be solved. New approaches to monitoring, analyzing, and evaluating the measurement results are going to be proposed and researched. The methodology and relevant calculations for perception indicators computation are going to be explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The viewing of Turkish soap operas in Greece is a stigmatized activity not only for reasons intrinsically related to the nature of soap operas per se, but also for reasons related to the historical past and the traditionally troubled diplomatic relationship between the two countries. Based on the data gathered during an audience ethnography, the author analyzes the use of Information and Communication Technologies made by the fans of these transnational soap operas. Online fan communities function as havens for their members as, in these communities, the norms which are dominant within the Greek society are not rigidly adhered to, stigmatized viewing preferences are endorsed by like-minded individuals and prevalent ideologies can be challenged without fear of criticism in a sympathetic, nonprejudiced environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between humans and their natural surroundings in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan area is the subject of this research. It's a look into how people have dealt with and taken advantage of natural surroundings. The extent to which a people's environment dictates or shapes their culture is a question that has its roots in the late 19th century. The concept of environmental determinism emerged when the environment began to be seen as a key factor in shaping human civilization. Educators' contributions to developing human culture were downplayed beginning in the latter part of the first quarter of the twentieth century. According to their belief, people's actions are restricted by the state of the planet. The concept of environmental possibility emerged as a result of this. The purpose of this research is to determine how much the local environment in a remote mountain region of Pakistan has influenced cultural practises and how much those trends have been influenced by human conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This document is an acknowledgement section from a book that is a reworked version of the author's doctoral thesis. The author expresses gratitude to various individuals who contributed to the project, including the people whose stories are featured in the book, the hosts who treated the author like family, friends from Nueva Germania, and academic mentors and examiners. The author also acknowledges funding support from the University of Göttingen and the University of the Free State, as well as collaborations with colleagues and participation in an archaeological research project. [Extracted from the article]

The article addresses the current theoretical elaborations put forth by prominent figures of the new right in Latin America and their strategic diffusion in Baja California. The conducted ethnography has provided insights into the mechanisms employed to redefine and reinforce a right-wing perspective that perceives itself as renewed. Among the findings, it was discovered that despite political and religious discrepancies within the so-called new right-wing groups, they coincide in the reworking of a theoretical corpus that addresses gender ideology, which stems from cultural studies, highlighting the relationship between culture and power. It is noted that there is an updated production of the discourse of the new right that seeks to maintain a worldview contrary to that expressed by feminisms, achieved through the co-optation and manipulation of progressive theorizations to engage audiences and expand their political ranks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literary studies have been subsumed by a critical practice that at the time was believed to be revolutionary and is called cultural studies. Given this reality, it would seem indispensable to rethink the current situation and the future of literary criticism. But this devaluation also affects literature itself. Literature and the science that accompanies it have experienced a notorious setback with the boom in the implementation of the socalled cultural studies, which are defined by the expansion of the canon. An enlargement that does not seem to be constituted based on any aesthetic experience, whether in the traditional Kantian conception, or in Rancière's renewed proposition, or correspond to the field of study of cultural anthropology. To recover the existence of the aesthetic fact is our main intention. In addition, we seek the most demarcated definition of text, dislocated by cultural studies that extend this notion from written language to the field of films, photographs, television series and even institutions. This is our starting point: the enjoyment provided by the aesthetic fact and the indispensable evaluative judgment that accompanies it. Underpinning this conjecture is the key idea that every aesthetic fact is a political fact, as Rancière argues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a conceptual proposal focused on the ethnographies of dwelling from urban and territorial cultural studies. The research team addresses the dimensions of the problem, including the conception of dwelling in subjectivity, the logic of composition of urban and territorial assemblages, and the practices of creation and resistance in new social movements. The proposal is framed within cultural studies, urban sociology, and ethnography, and seeks to understand contemporary urban territorialities and their logics of composition, focusing on emerging practices in differential spaces. The importance of social movements in Latin America and their resistance to neoliberalism is highlighted, as well as the importance of thinking about the environment from a perspective of habitation. These movements are characterized by their emphasis on territorialization and the occupation of territories as a strategy of resistance, and they seek to build a different society. [Extracted from the article]

The contemporary art in society can be born from the influence of traditional art such as Wayang Cilikmen which is influenced by Wayang Kulit Purwa. The purpose of this research is to describe the reception of the contemporary art audience of Wayang Cilikmen in Pacitan Regency. This research includes qualitative research because the data is non-numerical. Data collection was done by observation, recording/documentation, and interviews. The data in this study were analyzed using textual methods dialectically as the cultural circuit developed by Stuart Hall. Textual research method is one of the three types of research methods in cultural studies in addition to ethnography and hermeneutics. The results show that in the Pacitan Regency community there are various responses to Wayang Cilikmen, including Wayang Cilikmen as art as a form of interpretation of the Wayang Kulit Purwa tradition, Wayang Cilikmen as an art that is able to adjust the tastes of today's society so that it can provide entertainment for them, and Wayang Cilikmen is an art that can be collaborated with other performing arts. These diverse responses are evidence that the art of Wayang Cilikmen has been well received by the people of Pacitan Regency. Wayang Cilikmen as contemporary art is able to present the problems of human life that are always dealing with social risks in an uncertain society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This autoethnography uses narrative inquiry to make sense of practices normalized during quarantine. It centers my identity as a classed and racialized immigrant in relation to the socioeconomics of quarantine to question seemingly innocent mandates, policies, and practices. The narrative form of the article is influenced by Nathan Hodges' 'The Chemical Life.' I use the self-reflexive 'I' to connect the individual to the social and engage the reader with my routine in quarantine. I also rely on repetition – inspired by Aisha Durham's 'On Collards'– to reinforce the normalcy of the quarantine, i.e., what is new for most of us has been the same old for most of us. The repetition combined with understatements attempts to unsettle the novelty of quarantine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective/context: This research aims to bring closer contributions of the ethnographic approach to diplomatic works, both at a specific and a general level, in the discipline of International Relations, establishing connections, homologous methods, critical points, and inflections. Methodology: The article uses a qualitative methodology with an ethnographic approach to stress some classical and ontological categories of the international discipline, allowing a discussion of the scope, contributions, and novelty of the ethnographic method specifically for diplomatic studies. It also presents a review of specialized literature by authors who have studied the cultural variable in diplomatic studies. This approach allows examining basic premises of the discipline of International Relations, such as national interest, the constitution of the state, and state exclusivity in the diplomatic field, among other classic categories, that do not fully account for the existence of processes and emerging actors invisible in the internationalist debate. Conclusions: The article argues that the discipline of International Relations challenges its most representative arguments and categories by adhering to anthropological reflections. The results suggest that ethnographic approaches stress certain classical terms and ontologies of the international discipline, which has been possible through discussing the scope, contributions, and novelty of the ethnographic method specifically for diplomatic studies. Originality: This unpublished research study reveals a counterpoint between two large, apparently dissimilar theoretical corpora: anthropology and international relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Post-colonial Cameroonian identities have emerged from a combination of systems involving indigenous knowledges, transnational, socio-political, and economic influences, contributing to back-and-forth identity formation in the diaspora and country-of-origin. Kin and kith bonds, social validation, and the maintenance of traditional values between members of the diaspora and relatives in Cameroon influence both individual and collective identity formation in diasporic communities. I argue that the affective communicative properties of socio-culturally and nostalgically relevant music may facilitate not only individual identity formation in the Cameroonian diaspora, but also collective identity formations between members of the Cameroonian diaspora and Cameroon itself through the mechanism of empathy. To accomplish this, I employ the use of meta-narrative review to integrate discussions from cultural studies, social anthropology, sociology, musicology, neuroscience and psychology. Cameroonian diasporic communities discussed in this paper include the Norwegian-Cameroonian and German-Cameroonian diasporas, with comparative discussion offered from the perspective of the Swedish-Kurdish diaspora. This study is intended to exemplify an exploration of how transdisciplinary integration can highlight the value of the affective communicative properties of socio-culturally and nostalgically relevant music as means to facilitate identity formation within and across diasporic communities through the mechanism of empathy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article reflects on the articulation of cultural policies and artistic projects for social inclusion in the province of Buenos Aires. The Cruzavías community theater group, from the Nueve de Julio city, is taken as a case, seeking to investigate the modalities of articulation between the group and the State based on specific cultural and social policies, which at the same time enabled and hindered the development of activities and the exploration of other areas of social life through art. Through an ethnographic approach to the object, we propose an analysis that is both historically situated and theoretically transdisciplinary, which reveals processes linked to the region's cultural policies and participants' subjective transformations. In this way, we seek to contribute both to the field of cultural policy studies, as well as to the perspectives that analyze processes of art, inclusion and social transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The "revival of ethnography" in the field of audience studies in the 1980s is not only a re-discussion of the traditional methods in communication studies, but also a result of the influence of the "ethnographic turn" in cultural studies that focuses on the television audience. This was in line with the need of film studies in response to the lack of empirical audience evidence in textual analysis theory. Bruce Austin, one of the representative researchers in the field of ethnography, presents to us through his study of "cult" movie audiences that ethnography as a method helps us with data collection but nevertheless lacks general analysis. In other words, ethnography as a method is only suitable for analyzing small groups, which fails to develop into a general theory in film study. Consequently, it is often taken as a method for data collection used in the film industry or history-reception studies. However, taking into account the research examples that such method engages in history as well as the current phenomenon of Chinese film culture, one could still employ ethnographic audience research as an intermediate paradigm to effectively make up for the lack of empirical audience evidence that is found between the traditional quantitative statistical analysis and the abstract analysis after film studies has become an individual academic discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In response to the crisis suffered by literary criticism in the nineteen seventies and that has extended with even greater force today, it seems useful to return to the approach Borges developed in a paper that was first published in 1953 with the title “El escritor argentino y la tradición” which was later included in the reedition of Discusión in 1957. Here the author analyzes a recurring theme in Hispanoamerican literary studies, the tradition of “South American” bellelettres, especially Argentinean: “I think our tradition is that of all Western culture and I also think we have a right to this tradition which is greater than that of inhabitants of any other Western nation”. The replies were not long in coming. I dare suggest they were a glimpse of the perplexity of today’s reader, who is familiar with other answers, in particular, those of sociology or related fields, such as cultural anthropology, that have proposed that the way to reach the originality and autonomy of Hispanoacamerican literature resides in highlighting the differences that separate us from the Western Cannon. To examine and argue in favor of Borges´ thesis in the framework of the current situation of literary criticism, slowly but seemingly inexorably displaced by cultural studies, especially in university literature departments, is the pretensión of this work, which I hope is free of prejudice although I recognize that they never cease to be present in an undertaking of this type. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this written interview from 29 October 2022, four bachelor's students studying cultural anthropology at the University of Göttingen (Sally Fitzpatrick, Ruoyu Qu, Nora Coman, and Imke van Bentum) interviewed Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, an emeritus Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, about her research on sociality and gift exchange, gender relations, kinship, intellectual property, audit culture, and bioethics. Strathern is known for her groundbreaking work in feminist anthropology, as well as her research focusing on Papua New Guinea and Great Britain. She has also written extensively on the anthropology of science and technology and the ways in which these fields shape our understanding of the world. Her work is known for its theoretical and ethnographic complexity, which often draws on insights from philosophy and other disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Contemporary experiences in dating applications, such as Tinder, have updated virtualities, expanding connection capabilities that blur geographies and temporalities. In this article, a result of a Master's research, I seek to reflect the power of postmodern virtual ethnography as an investigative tool for gender and sexuality research, resulting in subjective narratives that subvert the supposed neutrality of the researcher. I argue along these lines a methodological process, therefore, alchemical, which hybridizes possibilities, transmutes naturalized terms and disturbs the conformed minds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The documentary playscript The Intramuros Project is based on ethnographic materials (i.e. transcripts of interviews and storytelling) collected and annotated between March and September 2019 from different stakeholders of Intramuros or Old Manila. These include security guards, ice cream vendors, informal settlers, on-the-job-trainees, padyak drivers, kalesa drivers, and government workers. The documentary performance manuscript also drew from other existing documentary materials such as the Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines, news reports about Intramuros, and other resources written about the walled city of Manila. The playscript was developed and workshopped using moment work, a devising technique introduced by the Tectonic Theater Project where devisors and dramaturgs are invited to think of potential staging devices on different scenes. Generally, the documentary piece is an attempt to problematize the concept of heritage using Intramuros as a starting point. In this paper, the playscript developed is explained through the dramaturgical notes. In the end, it is asserted that creative processes of devising and dramaturgy also contribute to cultural studies discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Folklore was founded in the 19th century as a branch of cultural studies, and flourished in the 20th century - namely at the hands of Northern American folklorists. New sub-branches, methods, and techniques were introduced. Likewise, family folklore - the importance of which became apparent in the 1950s within the context of the folkloric capacity of various social groups - gradually emerged into a disseminating research field in its own right by the 1970s. Similarly, many a Turkish folklorist has examined certain aspects of family folklore. However, they have yet to conduct any holistic research (which refer to any form of definition, scope, or methodology). Undoubtedly, were they to consider the dynamic characteristics of the family in their respective social and cultural contexts, they would be able to conduct more meaningful research on the folkloric capacity and repertoire of the Turkish family. This would in turn benefit folklore in general, as well as offer invaluable data for other fields of study that concentrate on the [Turkish] family. In this study, we have achieved four things. First, we have conducted a qualitative survey of the literature. Second, we defined the dynamics of family folklore within the scope of the concept of group folklore. Third, we assessed family folklore studies in terms of chronology, objective, scope and method, all the while drawing upon experiences of Northern American folklorists, namely those specializing in sociology, social anthropology, and social psychology. Finally, we remarked on method and scope, in an attempt to establish a scientific framework for future folkloric studies focusing on Turkish family folklore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces the upcoming student conference of the German Society for Empirical Cultural Studies (DGEKW) in Regensburg. The conference, titled "Tell me something!", aims to engage students in the study of narrative culture and create a space for discussing the complexity of everyday storytelling. The conference welcomes contributions from students on various research topics within the field of cultural studies, including food ethnology, clothing research, gender, and intangible cultural heritage. Interested participants can find more information and submit their papers through the official website or Instagram page of the conference. The organizers look forward to a fruitful and enjoyable weekend in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Regensburg. [Extracted from the article]

Utilitarian and socially engaged, Applied Drama is a theatre domain and umbrella concept associated with social sciences, anthropology and cultural studies among other humanistic disciplines. The practice of Applied Drama has played a significant role in developing community-based interventions, contestations and acts of resistance in the public domain, and politically meaningful interactions between artists and audiences to encourage active citizenship. This article discusses the pursuit of Applied Drama from the public sphere perspective and how these specific theatre methodologies are particularly designed to generate counterdiscourses. I will focus on the role of location/place in attributing meaning to the performance piece and illustrate with a study case how museums can be important arenas for democratic public spheres. I will pose that museums are community spaces able to provide opportunities for multiple identities to create representative discourses. I will also demonstrate how immersivity, guided interaction and simultaneous dramaturgy are key factors in generating counterpublics and alternative political discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, we report on an 18-month ethnographic field study inside the newsroom of a popular newspaper in Belgium, chronicling the endeavours of editors and journalists as they shift from a classic division between print and online beats to an integrated digital first-based newsroom. Throughout the paper, we stress the messiness and contingencies of changing the fixed structures of working journalists who are forced to undergo radical changes in their daily work, and how top-down communication affects their disposition towards, acceptance of and commitment or resistance towards the shift. We establish three types of newsroom tension (vertical, horizontal and diagonal), as well as five recurring steps faced by all hierarchical levels of the newsroom in its innovation attempts (contemplation, preparation, frustration, negotiation and adaptation). We conclude that flawed communication impacts dispositions towards innovation at various stages of the integration process and fuels tensions between various hierarchical levels. With journalistic practice in a constant state of flux, in-depth ethnography-based studies remain vital to analyse newsroom innovation and change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]