Search results for "lcsh:Anthropology"
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Pieni matkakertomus Afrikasta
2013
Haaveilin koululaisena, että teen uskomattomia seikkailuja kaukaisiin maailmankolkkiin. Uudemman kerran olin lähdössä päätä pahkaa maailmalle, kun aloitin uskontotieteen opinnot Turun yliopistossa 1990-luvun alussa. Muistan, kuinka silloista professoria huvitti, kun uusien opiskelijoiden esittelytilaisuudessa kerroin haluavani Markku Lehmuskallion jalanjäljille dokumentaristiksi Siperiaan. Maailma oli minulle silloin niin avoin, että en ymmärtänyt, että laadukkaassa dokumenttielokuvassa kuvataan muutakin kuin puhuvia päitä ja eksoottisia rituaaleja. En tiennyt, että alaa opiskellaan usein muualla kuin tiedeyliopistossa. Loppujen lopuksi minusta tuli ihan hyvä etnologi: olen kuluneiden 20 vu…
Developing a new approach to managing and mediating conflicts
2017
Generally speaking, words can be elusive and they need to be carefully selected when conveying messages, ideas and proposals between parties. This is all the more evident in mediation process as language has to be neutral and mediators should avoid expressions directing parties. In this regard, recent theoretical developments in postmodern social theory and the social constructionist movement in the social sciences and humanities have provided the field of alternative dispute resolution with a new approach to managing and mediating conflicts. These developments are organized around the ‘narrative approach’ which helps us to see how the language we use to describe and understand our conflict…
Negotiating the Terminological Borders of ‘Language Mediation’ in English and Italian. A Discussion on the Repercussions of Terminology on the Practi…
2015
Linguistic and cultural mediation has been playing an increasingly important role in contemporary society as a result of the intensification of international exchanges and migration flows; however, the definitions that have been given of it are still rather vague and inconsistent. In some cases linguistic and cultural mediation is seen as a broad superordinate category, comprising a range of different interlinguistic and intercultural activities serving the purpose of facilitating communication across languages, cultures and societies in various areas of civil society: industry, business, trade, law, literature, academia, institutions, public services, etc. In other cases, instead, the defi…
Rural places versus naturalized spaces. The logic of knowledge and acknowledgement in protected heritage areas
2013
New policies on nature heritage reorganize and redefine space by introducing new concepts, practices, managers and recipients. The imposition of a neoliberal conservation model generates tensions and resistance in local communities. This process involves appropriations, real and discursive, and reinventions on identity and territory. In this paper, we present the tensions derived from a statutory designation affecting a small town located in the region of Camp de Turia, Valencia (Spain). The town has swiftly gone from an economy based on traditional models for the exploitation of forest and agricultural resources, to a process of natural environment patrimonilization (The Sierra Calderona N…
La creación de peñas de mujeres: ¿Un desafio a la configuración del sistema sexo/género en el futbol espanol?
2017
Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación sobre las peñas de mujeres en el fútbol español. Teniendo en cuenta el ethos o carácter masculino que tradicionalmente ha caracterizado a este deporte, el estudio de las peñas de mujeres encierra un indudable interés socioantropológico por cuanto puede proporcionar una mejor comprensión de las dinámicas que operan en este deporte en relación con la dimensión de género. La investigación ha estado guiada por una pregunta: ¿hasta qué punto puede afirmarse que la creación de peñas de mujeres constituye un desafío a la configuración del sistema sexo/género que caracteriza al fútbol en la sociedad española? Más concretamente, se han abord…
Un día cualquiera en la cárcel: la etnografía-ficción como representación de una investigación
2015
El uso de formas alternativas de representación viene siendo objeto de debate en las ciencias sociales desde hace tiempo, como una respuesta posmoderna a los límites de la ciencia positivista. Sin embargo, su uso en las ciencias de la actividad física y el deporte es minoritario, tanto como la investigación cualitativa. En este caso, presentamos un relato de etnografíaficción que trata de recrear la vida en prisión, fundamentalmente en el polideportivo, y que está basado en los datos recolectados a través de una etnografía que supuso dos años de trabajo de campo en una prisión española. En aquella ocasión, se enfatizaron los significados que para los distintos tipos de participantes tenía l…
Institutionalization an settlement of neoshamanisms in Spain : the case of the Valencian Country
2017
In this article, we explore the penetration of different shamanic currents in the new millennium in Spain, with a particular focus on the Region of Valencia. The traditions in this area differ from the shamanic traditions that had been previously adopted in two aspects: they are different shamanic currents and they follow their own settlement dynamics. By using a qualitative methodology based on a combination of thorough interviews and field observations, we have approached diverse neoshamanic manifestations in the years 2015, 2016 and 2017. We have used some of the interviews and observations of our field work. Our unit of analysis has been the Region of Valencia although the theory could …
Teema edellä puuhun?
2018
THE IMAGINED WEST: EXPLORING OCCIDENTALISM
2016
Imaginary Journeys: Lectio praecursoria 18.1.2013
2013
Laura Hirven etnologian väitöskirja Identities in Practice. A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikhs in Finland and California tarkastettiin 18.1.2013 Jyväskylän yliopistossa. Vastaväittäjänä toimi professori Laura Huttunen Tampereen yliopistosta ja kustoksena professori Laura Stark Jyväskylän yliopistosta.