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La memòria recuperada: l’ús dels relats biogràfics en la segona i tercera generació dels emigrants valencians als Estats Units d’Amèrica a principi d…
2021
És habitual quan es fa ús del mètode biogràfic recollir els relats directament d'aquells que van viure els fets narrats, siguin estos tota una vida o alguns aspectes que l'investigador desitgi que siguin destacats. En la investigació duta a terme sobre la recuperació de la memòria dels emigrants valencians als Estats Units d'Amèrica durant les dues primeres dècades del segle XX això es presenta com un fet impossible: els que van viure en primera persona l'emigració ja han desaparegut. Es podria pensar que amb ells desapareixien també les seues històries. Però gràcies a un exhaustiu treball amb els seus descendents (filles i fills, nétes i néts, nebodes i nebots) i fent ús de tècniques que s…
Critica scientifica, popolarizzazione dell’etnografia ed etica dell’antropologo: sulla “controversia yanomami”, per esempio
2021
La “controversia sugli Yanomami” ha investito questioni centrali, tanto epistemologiche quanto etiche e politiche, per la disciplina e la pratica dell’antropologia, riguardando in particolare l’etica della ricerca sul campo; il modo di impiegare i dati di ricerca per sostenere determinate ipotesi teoriche; i rapporti tra popolarizzazione e politicizzazione delle ricerche e, più in generale, la responsabilità degli antropologi rispetto sia agli usi dei loro studi nella sfera pubblica sia nei confronti dei soggetti umani con cui lavorano. In quest’articolo esamino alcuni momenti chiave della “controversia”. In particolare provo a ricostruire il modo in cui si è inizialmente consolidata, dentr…
De parques y naturalezas. Enunciados, cimientos y dispositivos
2009
Beatriz.Santamarina@uv.es Desde nuestra perspectiva, los parques naturales presentan, tanto una oportunidad para reflexionar sobre los cimientos ideológicos de nuestra práctica cultural, como una invitación para poner en entredicho las políticas conservacionistas “neoliberales” presentadas y revestidas como ecológicas. Las áreas protegidas son un campo complejo de análisis, llevan procesos asociados de territorialización y desterritorialización, de homogeneización e hibridación, de terciarización, regulación y reurbanización, dentro de lo que se ha venido denominando la globalización. En este artículo abordamos la compleja expresión de los parques naturales. Para ello, nos acercaremos a las…
Język polski na Uniwersytecie Łotewskim w Rydze
2015
The Polish language at the Latvian University in RigaThe history of teaching of Polish language in the University of Latvia (LU) starts soon after its establishment in 1919. In the 1930s thanks to such famous scientists as Julian Krzyżanowski and Stanisław Kolbuszewski, the number of subjects connected with the Polish culture has increased at the Faculty of Philology and Philosophy and the Latvian society was introduced to the numerous works of these professors, published in different publications in Latvia. After the Second World War, Polish language has been taught within Russian philology with the aim of comparison Eastern and Western Slavic language groups. At the same time scientific w…
Etnografie del suono tra natura e cultura
2020
Relationship between nature and culture has deeply changed within the years, from an almost expected opposition of the two terms to a total overthrow which implies their mutual entanglement. The aim of this contribution is to show how such a change has affected oral musical tradition studies, focusing on some topics belong-ing to different theoretical-methodological frames and different historical periods: from comparative musicology to ethnomusicology, from anthropology of music to biomusicology (in reference also to evolutive musicology and to zoomusicology), from anthropology of sound to acustemology. Among the themes dealt with: the “na-ture” of musical scales, the phylogeny of musical …
Mobile media, gender, and power in rural India
2019
This article traces the diffuse connections between mobility and power by exploring how mobile phone use contributed to gendered power relations in rural India. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork on the use of mobile phones, conducted periodically between 2005 and 2013 in the village of Janta in West Bengal, India, and compared to earlier fieldwork in Janta, before the village had any phone system. Analysis of the increased mobility reveals how mobile phone use emerges within interconnected, changing fields of power. The political sphere earlier perceived as predominantly local was replaced by translocal political practices characterized by increasing mobility. Although new political pra…
Ethnographic Knowledge in Urban Planning:Bridging the Gap between the Theories of Knowledge-Based and Communicative Planning
2021
Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. ‘Knowledge-based’ approaches have recently made a breakthrough in urban planning. How to develop balance in knowledge-based planning between abstract and scientific knowledge, on the one hand, and ‘local knowledge’ on the other hand has been long debated. To this debate, we add a form of knowledge with potential for sustainable urban planning, i.e. ethnographic knowledge that could transmit an understanding of urban dwellers’ daily practices and values to planning organisations. Theoretical literature is the foundation of our argument, which we illustrate with a case study involvin…
From This Side of Pyrenees: An Overview of Autoethnography in Spain
2022
In recent years, we have witnessed a growing interest in autoethnography in Spain. However, the visibility of Spanish autoethnography within and beyond our borders continues to be limited. In this article, I have examined autoethnographic texts written by Spanish authors for the first time. I based this examination on a traditional bibliographic review of texts published in Spanish and English up to 2020. I organized texts according to my proposal for three stages of the development of Spanish autoethnography: its emergence, its dissemination from anthropology to other academic fields, and its consolidation and diversification. In these, I address the description of the content, the discipl…
Introduzione
2019
1. Preambolo La bombola del gas sembra vuota, le manopole della cucina sono, in aggiunta e in definitiva cessazione di ogni speranza di avere fuoco, ossidate e inutilizzabili. I ragazzi mi guardano preoccupati, attoniti: la festa campestre, tanto agognata, pare essere irrimediabilmente perduta. Ma siamo al Mulino, l’antica residenza rurale dove ho trascorso lunghe estati con unici compagni di giochi mio fratello, ramarri e lucertole, grilli e cicale, scursuna e granchi di fiume. E al Mulino i...
Analítica o evocadora: el debate olvidado de la autoetnografía
2016
Existe la necesidad de una estrategia metodológica eficaz para sostener la investigación sobre la práctica profesional de los servicios sociales. La oposición entre el trabajo autoetnográfico de Carolyn ELLIS y Arthur BOCHNER (2000, 2006) y la propuesta analítica de Leon ANDERSON sirven como una lente a través de la cual explorar los aspectos clave de esta discusión. Mientras ELLIS y BOCHNER rechazan cualquier intento de abstracción o sistematización teórica, ANDERSON pretende tender puentes entre la tradición etnográfica y las formas emergentes de narrativa personal. Después de revisar la literatura autoetnográfica, concluyo que si bien la autoetnografía evocadora parece gozar del apoyo ma…