Anthropology of locality

Globalization and the future of culture areas: Melanesianist anthropology in transition

by Rena Lederman

Switched Landscapes - Postcards, memories and gazes on the flatlands of the Tagus River

by Carlos Robalo

ROBALO, Carlos – Paisagens Trocadas: Postais, memórias e olhares sobre a lezíria do Tejo [Em linha]. Lisboa: ISCTE, 2009. Disponível em www:<http://hdl.handle.net/10071/1473&gt;.

With the fall of the rural world, landscapes regain a remarkable expression in the framing of the memory and in the... more With the fall of the rural world, landscapes regain a remarkable expression in the framing of the memory and in the construction of the imaginary of a society that redesigns its image and projects itself in time, past and future, and is forced to question its present.

In the demand of the Tagus Valley landscape representations, picture postcards were elected as primordial research source. To find them required a long and persisting course, identifying local collectors and getting their assent to study their collections, what has revealed new perspectives of inquiry, multiplying the odds of looking the site and its sought objects.

Defying us to examine the perspectives on the place, both in past and present, postcards are the axis of a research where we outlook the modulations of the gaze: the people’s gaze on their space and about themselves, on how they intend to be looked at by the others, how they see the others and how they are seen by them.

This way, it was intended to contribute to the identification of processes that determine the construction of a place, the delimitation of a territory, the recognition of a landscape, and hence, the production of a sense of belonging, where a situated identity is discoursed and represented.

Switched Landscapes - Postcards, memories and gazes on the flatlands of the Tagus River

by Carlos Robalo

ROBALO, Carlos – Paisagens Trocadas: Postais, memórias e olhares sobre a lezíria do Tejo [Em linha]. Lisboa: ISCTE, 2009. Disponível em www:<http://hdl.handle.net/10071/1473&gt;.

With the fall of the rural world, landscapes regain a remarkable expression in the framing of the memory and in the... more With the fall of the rural world, landscapes regain a remarkable expression in the framing of the memory and in the construction of the imaginary of a society that redesigns its image and projects itself in time, past and future, and is forced to question its present.

In the demand of the Tagus Valley landscape representations, picture postcards were elected as primordial research source. To find them required a long and persisting course, identifying local collectors and getting their assent to study their collections, what has revealed new perspectives of inquiry, multiplying the odds of looking the site and its sought objects.

Defying us to examine the perspectives on the place, both in past and present, postcards are the axis of a research where we outlook the modulations of the gaze: the people’s gaze on their space and about themselves, on how they intend to be looked at by the others, how they see the others and how they are seen by them.

This way, it was intended to contribute to the identification of processes that determine the construction of a place, the delimitation of a territory, the recognition of a landscape, and hence, the production of a sense of belonging, where a situated identity is discoursed and represented.

Paisagens Trocadas: Postais, memórias e olhares sobre a lezíria do Tejo

by Carlos Robalo

ROBALO, Carlos – Paisagens Trocadas: Postais, memórias e olhares sobre a lezíria do Tejo [Em linha]. Lisboa: ISCTE, 2009. Disponível em www:<http://hdl.handle.net/10071/1473&gt;.

Com o ocaso do mundo rural, as paisagens readquirem uma notável expressão no enquadramento da memória e na construção... more Com o ocaso do mundo rural, as paisagens readquirem uma notável expressão no enquadramento da memória e na construção do imaginário de uma sociedade que redesenha a sua imagem e se projecta no tempo, passado e futuro, e é obrigada a interrogar o seu presente.

Na demanda das representações da paisagem do Vale do Tejo, elegeram-se os bilhetes-postais ilustrados como fonte primordial de pesquisa. Para os encontrar, foi necessário um longo e perseverante percurso, identificando coleccionadores locais e conseguindo o consentimento para perscrutar as suas colecções, o que veio a revelar novas perspectivas de investigação, multiplicando as possibilidades de olhar o local e os objectos procurados.

Desafiando-nos a examinar as perspectivas sobre o lugar, no passado e no presente, os postais são o eixo de uma pesquisa onde se projectam as modulações do olhar: do olhar das pessoas sobre o seu espaço e sobre si mesmas, sobre a forma como pretendem ser olhadas pelos outros, como vêem os outros e como são vistas por eles.

Desta forma se intentou elaborar um contributo para a identificação de processos que determinam a construção de um local, a delimitação de um território, o reconhecimento de uma paisagem e, consequentemente, a produção de um sentido de pertença, onde se discorre e representa uma identidade situada.

Передвижение человека по местности как важный фактор этноэкологических исследований

by Vladimir Adaev

МАТЕРИАЛЫ К ИЗУЧЕНИЮ ЛЕКСИКИ РУССКОГО СИБИРСКОГО ГОВОРА БАССЕЙНА РЕКИ ДЕМЬЯНКА

by Vladimir Adaev

ЭТНОЛОКАЛЬНЫЕ МОДЕЛИ И ИНДИВИДУАЛЬНЫЕ СТРАТЕГИИ ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКОЙ АДАПТАЦИИ (БАССЕЙН Р. ДЕМЬЯНКА, 1930-1980-Е ГГ.)

by Vladimir Adaev

«А остяки – они же любители одиночеств…»: Этническая идентичность и этнические стереотипы у населения р. Демьянка в ХХ-ХХI вв.

by Vladimir Adaev

Ушедший хозяин Демьяна (почитание хантами духа-хозяина р. Демьянка в ХХ в.)

by Vladimir Adaev

Imagineering tailor-made pasts for nation-building and tourism: A comparative perspective

by Noel B. Salazar

Salazar, Noel B. 2010. Imagineering tailor-made pasts for nation-building and tourism: A comparative perspective. In J. Schlehe, M. Uike-Bormann, C. Oesterle & W. Hochbruck (Eds.), Staging the past: Themed environments in transcultural perspectives (pp. 77-93). Bielefeld: Transcript.

Imagineering cultural heritage for local-to-global audiences

by Noel B. Salazar

Salazar, Noel B. 2011. Imagineering cultural heritage for local-to-global audiences. In A. van Stipriaan, P. van Ulzen & M. Halbertsma (Eds.), The heritage theatre (pp. 49-72). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Los textos de lo local. Una metodología aplicada a las ámbitos, los discursos y las prácticas sociales.

by Hugo Gaggiotti

El espacio, que siempre es de producción social, se define desde la interacción y ésta puede ser estudiada desde el... more El espacio, que siempre es de producción social, se define desde la interacción y ésta puede ser estudiada desde el análisis del discurso que generan
los grupos que interactúan socialmente y producen lo material como hecho social. El siguiente trabajo describe las posibilidades de aplicación de
una metodología de análisis del discurso al estudio de la relación entre el espacio local y el espacio extralocal desde la perspectiva de que la relación
manifiesta y pone en evidencia el espacio social.

L'espace, qui a été toujours une production sociale, est défini á partir de l'interaction et celle-ci peut étre étudiée par le moyen de l'analyse du discours émis par des groupes qui interagissent socialement et produisent ce qui est matériel comme fait social. Ce travail décrit les possibilités d'application d'une méthodologie d'analyse du discours á l'étude des rapports entre l'espace local et l'espace extra-local.

The space, which is always of social production, is defined from interaction. Interaction could be studied from the analysis of group discourses that socially interact and produce the social. This paper describes the possibilities to apply discourse analysis to study the relations between the local and the extra-local space.

Gallant, L. M. (2006). An ethnography of communication approach to mobile product testing. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 10(5), 325-332.

by Linda Gallant

Product testing of mobile communication technology has typically employed the same research methodologies that were... more Product testing of mobile communication technology has typically employed the same research methodologies that were traditionally applied to stationary technology. An approach that does not primarily rely on physical location to study mobile communication technologies is thus needed. The stable component of mobile communication technology is not physical space but human communication. Therefore, a research model is developed based on an ethnography of communication approach, which designates “talk” (i.e., symbolic communication) as the primary and essential unit of measurement while making stationary physical location secondary. This allows design teams to enter a user “speech community” anywhere. Eight participants tested both the stationary and mobile version of customer relationship management software for sales. All participants were professional salespeople, comprising a speech community. Users articulated their “local” speech community meaning systems in the form of scenarios of use, which can guide product design and marketing. The findings show that proof-of-concept testing of mobile versions of desktop software can be done in conjunction with the usability testing for stationary technology.

Doing Cultural Studies Inside APEC: Literature, Cultural Identity, and Global/Local Dynamics in the American Pacific (Comparative Literature)

by Rob Wilson

Global competitiveness versus community identity: Can culture be the answer to managing this uneasy balance in towns and cities?

by Andres Coca-Stefaniak

Editorial article published in Journal of Town and City Management (http://www.henrystewart.com/jtcm.aspx)

City management partnerships as shapers of urban strategy and providers of cost-effective solutions to local problems

by Andres Coca-Stefaniak

Editorial article published in Journal of Town and City Management (http://www.henrystewart.com/jtcm.aspx)

Uncomfortable strategic truths: A time to pause, reflect and ponder on the need for meaningful change in our towns and cities?

by Andres Coca-Stefaniak

Editorial article published in Journal of Town and City Management (http://www.henrystewart.com/jtcm.aspx)

Making a spectacle? Monumentality and performative time in the mortuary spaces of Early Iron Age south-west Germany

by James Johnson

In press (2011). in Place as Material Culture: Objects, Geographies
and the Construction of Time, (eds) G. Bailey and D. Georghieu, contracted with Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Expected fall 2011.
(with S. Schneider)

Locality and Media

by peter probst

Être Communiste En Milieu Rural

by Julian Mischi

Being Communist in a Rural Environment

Etudes rurales
2004/3-4 (n° 171-172), p. 61-71

Résumé :
L’étude de l’implantation du PCF dans trois départements (Allier, Loire-Atlantique,... more Résumé :
L’étude de l’implantation du PCF dans trois départements (Allier, Loire-Atlantique, Meurthe-et-Moselle) permet de mettre en évidence la spécificité des pratiques et des représentations des militants ruraux. L’analyse sociographique des réseaux ruraux du PCF souligne la forte mobilisation communiste de zones de peuplement ouvrier ainsi que le rôle clé joué par les artisans et commerçants dans l’encadrement de la paysannerie rouge. Une approche plus ethnographique montre de quelle manière l’organisation communiste compose avec des sociabilités locales qui marquent de leur empreinte les formes de l’engagement militant. Le matériel de propagande produit par le PCF fait valoir les référents ruraux de l’idéologie communiste et l’existence d’une symbolique communiste propre aux campagnes.

Abstract :
This study of the French Communist Party in three departments (Allier, Loire-Atlantique, Meurthe-et-Moselle) sheds light on rural activists, practices and ideas. This “sociographic” analysis of the Party’s rural networks emphasizes both the strong mobilization of Communists in working-class areas and the leading role played by craftsmen and merchants in organizing a Red peasantry. An ethnographic approach shows how this organization tapped local sociabilities, which left their marks on the forms of activist involvement. The Party’s propaganda highlighted rural elements in the Communist ideology and invoked symbols germane to rural areas.