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This article seeks to present a continuing bibliography of research on Southern California Indians from the past 20 years, and sometimes beyond. The coverage reaches outside the variably defined bounds of Southern California so that it includes peripheral groups such as the Timbisha Shoshone of Death Valley and one or more groups in the Owens Valley. The bibliography is organized in a somewhat arbitrary yet useful form. Subsumed under general headings are subheadings by subject, tribe, or place. The main headings are: (1) General Works: Bibliographies, Collections, Encyclopedias, Indexes, and Symposia; (2) Archaeology and Prehistory; (3) Ethnology and Ethnohistory; (4) Indian/White Historical Relations and Indian Affairs; (5) Land Tenure, Land Claims, Sacred Places, and Land Restoration; (6) Law, Jurisdiction, Planning, Federal Acknowledgment, Gaming, and Self-Determination; (7) Geography, Ecology, and Environmental Management; (8) Biology, Demography, Health, and Physical Anthropology; (9) Indians and Urbanization; (10) Arts, Crafts, Music, and Film; (11) Literature, Languages, Journalism, Oral Tradition, and Poetry; (12) Useful Indian and Indian-Related Web Sites; and (13) Law Cases. (Contains 13 notes.)

Geography is a traditional subject in Bulgarian education, both secondary and higher. Some of the most eminent Bulgarian scientists were geographers and theirs are many publications dealing not only with geography, but also with history, economics, ethnology, ethnography, political science, urban science and other disciplines. Major changes have occurred in the recent times however. Although still taught in Bulgarian universities, geography has lost its applied context and has turned into a theoretical subject, not giving the practical knowledge and skills which are so much needed in contemporary society. As a result, Geography has lost both its appeal to young people at universities and its place as an interesting professional career. This article considers some of the causes of this situation and suggests some of the possibilities for overcoming the difficulties of this transition period for geography education at universities of the country.

This article draws on ethnographic observations from a Black trail ride event in Houston to examine how African Americans negotiate identities and spaces through embodied memories and mobility. Movement and mobility have always influenced racialised belonging through the geopolitics of borders and boundaries, which are inextricably tied to collective meanings of "blackness." Everyday negotiations of blackness require Black Americans to reckon with the historical and contemporary implications of limited mobility and their place in U.S. society. Engaging with Lefebvre's notion of "the right to the city," this article reflects on how Black trail riders challenge dominant constructions of space and belonging through collective movement and memory. By analysing a specific ethnographic moment during the trail ride, when Black participants moved from a place bounded by property lines to the space of city streets, the article explores the intersections of race, geography, and mobility. It considers how embodied memories and public reclamations of the past by Black communities pose a threat to established spatial and racial hierarchies. The article contributes to theoretical discourses on geopolitics, borders, and boundaries by centering the experiences and agency of Black trail riders in reimagining and navigating racialised landscapes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The last days of the Yugoslav Federation and the nationalist decade that followed brought to the fore negative categorizations and ‘ancient’ geographies of belonging. Since 2012, the ruling elite have sought to contain nationalism and to rebuild the image of a modern nation using consumption as a political tool by bridging (again) East and West. This contention is grounded in two entangled theoretical perspectives on consumption and national identity building. Adopting a historical narrative scheme, the original material collected in this study from 45 semi-structured customer and problem-centered expert interviews and extensive ethnographic fieldwork contributes to contextualizing and problematizing consumption routines towards McDonald’s restaurants, Simit Sarayi, and Starbucks coffee shops. This paper highlights that, daily, individuals have developed their own interpretative space within which to operate, exhibit their identity, and express to whom their affinity goes, leading to cultural paradoxes in certain situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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If we understand texts both as "spatial events" that take place otherwise in different spatio-temporal contexts but also as "mobile events" that activate mobilities of different kinds, how does this approach influence our teaching of literary geographies? This paper is inspired by the idea that a mobile approach to literary geography may move our pedagogical practices, mobilising creatively our didactics and activating new experimental and performative ways for teaching (with) texts. The article begins by discussing the opportunities and issues related to the teaching of literary geographies through a mobility-centred approach, inspired by mobility studies and creative pedagogies in the geohumanities. Then it discusses empirical examples of teaching activities set in the Italian contexts and imagined for "moving (with) texts" in and outside the classroom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article, which deals with the history of anthropology and the development of the anthropology department in the Faculty of Language and History - Geography, discusses the development of anthropology from a global perspective; the prominent research in the phase ranging from physical anthropology to social anthropology with the establishment of the anthropology department at Ankara University Faculty of Language and History - Geography and in addition to all these, it includes a brief history of anthropology and social anthropology based on the work of our professors. Social anthropology, together with other social sciences, tried to interpret the communities defined as “wild”, “distant” and “the other” at the end of the nineteenth century. Therefore, it is seen that the roots of social anthropology were laid in England, the United States of America, and France and were shaped in line with the interests and needs of the modern world. Academic anthropological research in Turkey started with the establishment of the Turkish Anthropology Institute in the Faculty of Medicine of Istanbul University in 1925 with the instruction of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Although researchers focused on physical anthropology studies when academic anthropological studies first emerged in Turkey, this situation changed over time. The systematic study of social anthropological research began around the 1940s, and the majority of these studies consist of fieldwork conducted in rural areas of Turkey. This article discusses the recognition of social anthropology in the historical process, the process of coming to the present day, the prominent research which points out the various stages of development of the anthropology department of Ankara University Faculty of Language and History - Geography, and professors who carried out this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the book by Peter Högemann and Norbert Oettinger about Herodotus and the Old Testament. Herodotus is often used as a source in Old Testament studies to obtain information about geography, ethnology, cultural history, and history. There are connections between Herodotus' works and certain themes in the Old Testament, such as the identification of the "enemy from the north" with the Scythians. The text deals with various works and authors that deal with the historiography of the Old Testament and the Greek historian Herodotus. It also discusses the correlation between Herodotus and the Old Testament in relation to the history of Lydia. The authors examine the parallels between Herodotus and the Old Testament and highlight cultural continuities and discontinuities. However, they criticize that they are not up to date with current Old Testament research. [Extracted from the article]

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This paper questions the conceptual and pragmatic worth of the category of relational values. Combining philosophical reasoning with ethnographic fieldwork in Wallmapu/Chile, I analyse a variety of ways in which people think about, value and behave toward the land. I thereby demonstrate that relationality is inherent to held, instrumental and intrinsic values. This means that there is no meaningful way in which to distinguish relational values from more familiar types of values. Yet, to be able to argue that a distinct class of relational values exists, those who have proposed the term have been compelled to silence or downplay the relational natures of those other values. This has the perverse effect of confining, rather than promoting, relational thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper uses food as a prism to examine society and the impacts of social change at different scales, ranging from the scale of the region, through the scale of the local community, to the scale of the household. It applies an approach that combines materials gained from archival studies, a literature review, and empirical research conducted in the Western Pamirs of Tajikistan to reconstruct socio-historically and spatio-environmentally situated food-related arrangements (foodscapes) in the study region. The main characteristics addressed include rootedness, richness, scarcity , and remoteness. It makes visible both continuities and shifts that have occurred to these arrangements in the course of social transformations. The study joins the canon of ethnographic food studies, and, by presenting a regional focus on the Tajik Pamirs, complements the emerging body of food-related socio-scientific research in and on Central Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The vast academic production within the framework of gender studies in social sciences in general offers multiple concepts and analysis tools that can operate as triggers for inquiry. This article presents a brief historical description of the main contributions developed in anthropology and geography of gender and a theoretical and methodological approach for the analysis of gender problems arising in a particular rural context that is positioned at the intersection between human geography and social anthropology. This is the result of a research process conducted with families living in the Forest Centre Area in the Lower Delta of the Paraná River. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What changes if our ethnographic research practices are reconceptualized as archival practices that can be used toward the purpose of building more equitable, sustainable futures? This essay explores this question to (re)think how we document and preserve disappearing Black geographies in our research and activism. Guided by Octavia Butler's science fiction as a model, the essay uses speculative fieldnotes to illustrate the potential impact of treating ethnographic research as an archival practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the social life of excision at the Southern Spanish border. Scholars have documented how excision expands the border project, and how it uses the law to make it more defensible as a practice. Less attention has been paid to how excision is challenged by activist networks, and how the law is used as an instrument to un-make borders. I expand literature on the complex relation between the law and geography in bordermaking by arguing that excision is rather dynamic in nature. A comparative ethnography of Melilla and the Canary Islands reveals that de facto borders created through excision are vulnerable to legal activism. The strategic use of the law can set back the expansion of the border project, tenuously restoring some rights for asylum-seeking and undocumented foreigners. Such setbacks are tenuous because excision is, nevertheless, deeply integrated into a dense web of containment tactics. 'The undesirables' might thus recuperate some of their rights at one point but then still face exclusion at another point of the expanded frontier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

And yet they offer a second order reading of, for instance, Glissant's reading of his Caribbean milieu. In the spirit with which this collegial call and response invites my participation, I offer this reply to Chandler and Pugh's ([4]) powerful provocation.[3] I order my remarks as follows. Should the Caribbean be thought of as an "enabling" geography for unpicking such ontological puzzles? It is with a similar approach that I have tried to work out what the "abyssal geographies" frame might contribute (a) to our understandings of Caribbean worlds[1] or (b) these authors' ("abyssal thinkers") bodies of thought. [Extracted from the article]

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This essay analyzes embodied experiences of enclaving. It argues that by tracking revolutions in built form that gating enacts, urban geography has simultaneously tracked revolutions in urban subjectivity. It highlights three enclaved "body types" within existing literature: securitized bodies in fortressed cities, performative bodies in consumptive enclaves, and hygienic bodies in purified zones. It then offers three ethnographic scenes of gating related to new crises of personhood: metabolic illness, atmospheric breakdown, and resurgent ethno-nationalism. Attention to the psychic forces behind gating, it finally argues, can further show the gender, class, and ethnic underpinnings of what appear as generic architectural zones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on study of language from a global perspective raises questions about the distribution of knowledge, and controversies about indigenous American languages, this theme issue puts global tensions in their respective local contexts and vice versa. It mentions cartographer Ishikawa Ryūsen and philological exercise, the interpretation of the world map fits within Klaproth's lifelong project of studying the languages, history, and geography of Asia in interrelation.

In 1618 the Italian Jesuit Jerónimo de Angelis traveled to Ezo, now Hokkaidô, an island located north of Japan and which, at that time, was an uncharted territory for both, Europeans and Japanese. The objective of this journey was to assess the suitability of this land and its inhabitants, the Ainu ethnicity, to receive Christianity. This article analyzes the report that De Angelis wrote about his trip to inform the superiors of the Society of Jesus in Rome. This document, unpublished until now, contains detailed information about the livelihood, character and spirituality of the Ainu people, which, in addition to being of great value for the study of Japanese Christianity, can be considered as an early example of modern ethnographic analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Plantationocene is a threshold for understanding planetary change. Rather than attributing environmental transformations to the universal agency of humankind, a Plantationocene grounds the alteration of landscape in histories of colonialism and race, and takes the plantation to be a pivotal engine for producing novel but fraught natures. This article develops a vegetal geography of a Plantationocene, engaging relations between plants and people as well as the role plants play as mediators of habitability in a landscape. It argues that such geographies influence and are underscored by the exploitation of labor, violent enclosures of land, and the quest to profit from both human and other-than-human life. Vegetal geographies are tracked in three conceptual registers: the vegetal agency of plants put into circulation by plantations, vegetal economies centered on labor power and the work plants do, as well as the vegetal politics of landscape change proceeding though an ecology of relations and the asymmetric exercise of power. This reading of a Plantationocene and its vegetal geographies brings scholarship on planetary transformations into closer dialogue with colonial history and postcolonial political economy. The argument is grounded in an ethnography of the Adivasi community, elephants, and tea plantations in Assam, northeast India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Researchers' subjective positionalities are often presented as explanatory factors in the interpretation and analyses of ethnographic experiences. In geographic and anthropological ethnographies, positionalities are often benignly disclosed to readers under the auspices of being better able to understand specific subjective backgrounds, or the lenses, through which researchers engage with participants, places, and the overall subject matter. While positionality statements have become standard in qualitative research, there is not sustained development of the dynamic nature of positionality as way to better understand, analyze, and theorize through a research project. To contextualize this methodological argument, I draw from ethnographic engagement with a community of individuals facing homelessness who reside in tents and other rudimentary structures in a public municipal park. My own dynamic positionalities are positioned as both a lens through which I understand the "Hillside residents" and also evolving analytical tools that complicate assumed understandings of class and relationships to nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studying buildings can be a rich entry point into emerging cultural geographies. The archipelago of Chiloé in southern Chile is experiencing rapid change since the country's extreme turn toward neoliberal governance in the 1970s. Once a rural, communal, and sea-faring region, it has been transformed by industrial aquaculture in recent decades which has driven a new urban landscapes and consumer-oriented lifestyles. This paper offers findings from an ethnographic study of changing consumption geographies, from iconic tourist sites linked to the region's rich heritage geographies, to the new corporate retailers and shopping malls. Specifically, the new shopping mall clashes with the heritage and tourist landscape of colonial era churches and other unique heritage architectures that have captured the attention of tourists and investors. We glimpse a dynamic architectural geography in flux, as an array of buildings pulls the population in multiple directions at once, making it an ideal case study of the competing forces of what Deleuze and Guattari called de- and re-territorialization, an appropriate analytic for understanding the powerful forces of commodification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article aims to present the activities of Ludomir Sawicki (1884-1928), professor of Geography at the Jagiellonian University, with particular emphasis on his contribution to the organization of Polish science in this fi eld. Ludomir Sawicki was born and raised in Vienna, but after graduating and defending his doctorate, he came to Krakow and started working as a junior high school teacher. Later - after obtaining his habilitation - he was a lecturer and professor at the Jagiellonian University, where he started organizing the Institute of Geography. He corresponded with Eugeniusz Romer regarding the publication of the Geographical and Statistical Atlas of Poland (Geografi czno-statystyczny atlas Polski). He actively participated in the works of many signifi cant Polish organizations, including the collaboration with the Polish Country Lovers' Society (PTK) in Warsaw, and was one of the founders of the Polish Geographical Society. He participated in geographic congresses in Geneva (1908), London (1911), Rome (1913) and Cairo (1925), and he organized the Second Congress of Slavic Geographers and Ethnographers, which took place in Krakow in 1927. He was also involved in expeditionary endeavors. He founded the Orbis printing house in Krakow, which published not only recognized works in the fi eld of geography but also teaching aids for schools. His extensive activity infl uenced generations of students, including Wiktor Ormicki and Antoni Wrzosek. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the ethnography on the geography of La Mesa del Nayar, Nayarit, some deities of particular relevance and the annual ritual cycle, a reading is made of the understanding of the cora body and the way in which, through experience ritual, serves as a nodal point for the construction of time, space and person, as well as the interrelation between all of it. Likewise, and based on the constant "putting into the abyss" of the coras, the location of the body of the skull of the god Nayar is proposed, the same one that, together with another important deity, inhabits the center of the community. The drawing of both bodies appears, then, as a reproduction of the quincunx that organizes the diurnal world of the coras. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]