EASA, 2008: EASA08: Experiencing diversity and mutuality
Ljubljana, 26/08/2008 – 29/08/2008
Workshops
London: nowhere, in particular The politics of mobility: ideology and instrumentality Mobile culture and immobile anthropology: towards an anthropology of the roads and flows Towards a phenomenology of flying Travelling through mobilities 'Co-opportunistic' mobility: experiencing social housing in London The tensions between mobility and stasis in two contexts of super-diversity Living on constantly transfer Rethinking panopticism: biometric security, surveillance and the state 'Morocco is a prison!' Culture of migration and imaginary mobility among young Moroccans Mobile perspectives/perspectives on mobility: anthropological entanglements with competing contexts "Checking the askaries (guards) of my body": testing for HIV and living with CD4 counts and viral loads in Uganda 'My baby is killed when I breastfeed': challenges of selves and sociality in a context of mother to child transmission of HIV in East Africa Embodied biographies of heritable breast cancer risk: (re)making the female body amidst medical, religious and social discourses Living and working in spite of antiretroviral therapies: HIV between control and resistance Sonographic images of anomalous fetal bodies: tracing cultural mediations The 'bio-social' dynamics of breast cancer genetics: comparisons between the UK and Cuba Transplant anxieties: discourses about bone marrow/haematopoietic stem cell transplantation Neglected interdisciplinarities: the Balkans, gender, and historical anthropology Writing Europe: the dialogue of 'liminal Europeans' A man can die but thrice: anthropology of death through Lacan Remembering socialism and "post-socializing" the West Dis-closing encounters: European public space, cultural diversity, and the Slovenian EU presidency Local community on the 'peripheries of Europe': between sociology and anthropology Heroic past versus un-heroic present: the politics of memory and its discontent "Europeanization" in Istria: differences between official and private discourse "In Spain I am like every one else - simply a Bulgarian immigrant": the flexibilization of identification and the double-naming strategy of Bulgarian Muslims in Spain Extracting one's past from a grey future: nostalgia in post-1989 Romania Moral and religious re-education of Russia Lady in Pink. Different aspects of one color in the direct selling organization in Poland Face to face behind bars: ethical fragilities in the researcher - prisoner relationship in a Greek prison for women Ethical dilemmas in ethnographying medical visit Some ethical considerations regarding recruting subjects through media solicitation "You're the only one I will tell it to …" - researcher in a difficult situation: questions about fieldwork methodology Life stories as reserach and didactic activity Friendship as the relationship between researcher and researchee: ethical doubts Being sensitive and discreet when dealing with honour and good name Problem of data privacy protection of research subjects Ethics and the inevitability of bias in research on nuclear issues in India A 'nested' and 'perspectivistic' way of understanding the global - local nexus Crossing boundaries: conversion to and within Islam in a local Belgian and globalizing context Ethnography matters: multisited research, cultural hierarchies and their ethnographic methods From "flows" back to actors: why "the local" is no longer a place for anthropology Mediatized local: media reshaping the local and the local response to media impact Researching fakes, practicing anthropology out of the corner of the eye «Liquid truth»: How the story of a demolished Bedouin village in Israel travels around the world Governing social relations internationally: the legal management of conflict Zones of peace and violence or a general state of exception? Interactions and ambiguity of notions of war and peace in a colonial context Potentia and presentia: on the dynamics of peace and conflict in Bissau Developing Africa and Europe: the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda and the war/peace business in the global shadows "This is not the end of history": re-negotiating civil society and anti-capitalist activism in postsocialist Serbia 17th century ethnography: Johann Weichard Freiherr von Valvasor Actors and agency in the situation of rebellion Cyber as space, cyber as conversation: setting up virtual empires Nigerian video film cultures Rethinking the unthinkable: dignity and solidarity in the time of neoliberalism The Georgian-Abkhazian ceasefire line: an edge of the Russian "empire"? A lost Roma tale: ethnocentric versus xenocentric attitudes in the Gârcini Roma community Sustainability and folk culture: some features in contemporary life Rituality: a form of hidden ritual Migrants and their traditions in Moscow megacity Aligning indigenous leadership and development in an African context Storytelling for peace-building and sustainable cultural diversity The archetypal ‘language of light’ from ethnical tradition to modern technology Asian life style programme in Hungary (the impact of Yoga on everyday life) Integrating traditional and modern knowledge of malaria among the Sabaot of Mount Elgon in Kenya Healing femininity - balancing energies Fluent perceptions: beyond centres and peripheries in the global production of anthropological knowledge Rethinking the centre: thoughts about insiders and outsiders from a peripheral university in a 'central' location Now that we are Europeans are we better off? Social anthropology: smuggling biased knowledge around the world? No local debate, no global impact: German anthropology since the 1980s (and a bit before) Mutuality and reciprocity in situations of marked inequality: dilemmas of and concerning US anthropology in the world Towards a doubly rooted cosmopolitan anthropology Ships passing in the night? Interdisciplinarity, East-West relations and commoditization of knowledge in anthropology of post-socialism Intricate relations between Western anthropologists and postsocialist ethnologists Introduction Consuming producers, producing consumers: Costa Rican households and the ethic of self-provisioning Re-inventing food: ethics and politics of tradition "Trade not aid": cleansing relationships One supersize does not fit all: flap versus Mac in the ethics of personal consumption Narratives of concern: beyond the 'official' discourse of ethical consumption How can one eat or farm organic without "living organic"? Ethnography of values and practices of Belgian organic producers and consumers On the challenges of signaling ethics without stuff: stories of sustainable and conspicuous non-consumption The challenges of chocolate: an examination of the ethics of consuming and producing chocolate The dialectics of economy Hunting in the Alentejo (southern Portugal): the social and spatial outcomes of 'care' and 'selfishness' 'We, the Congolese, we cannot trust each other': trust, norms and relations among traders in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo The moralities of markets: petty trade and merchant associations in the margins of the formal economy in Peru The notion of embeddedness and its relevance in modern market economies Paying for parenthood: money and kinship in assisted reproduction Asymmetric flows of support among siblings and its limits: some evidence from current rural China Kin-group characterisation and competition for local resources in rural Yakutia Markets and moralities in Danish housing cooperatives European kinship and the emotional economy Private enterprise and the ethos of the collective era in China: the case of a Chinese craft industry Lace or string: the moral conundrums of entrepreneurship The market logic of illegality in southern Italy 'Great transformation' of agrarian tolerance in post-peasant Eastern Europe Moral economies in a modern world: kinship, morality and power among the Boatmen of Varanasi (Banaras), India Stressed responsible subjects: market, state and moral obligation and the paradoxes of the economy Decision making in context: a case of Swedish rail planning in practice Heating Swedish houses: a discussion about the nature of change, household decision-making, and the prospect of reaching a national target Hidden power: who makes farm decisions? Participatory democracy as a 'social drama': deconstructing public involvement procedures in Swedish city renewal Re-localization and the process of decision making in a Sugpiaq community The significance of role, status, and authority in decision making processes among social workers Vision meets muddle: : an investigation of how vision statements affect decision making in a Swedish municipality Slavery and emancipation in the haalpulaar society (Mauritania): the influence of migrants of servile origin on social renogotiation FRONTIERS OF MOBILITY, LIMITS OF CITIZENSHIP: POLITICAL MEANINGS OF MOBILITY FOR SOME FULANI GROUPS IN MAURITANIA Saharian "borderline"-strategies: transnational mobility of Tuareg (Ishumar) between Niger, Algeria and Libya Here and there: presence and absence among Hausa migrants in Belgium and urban Niger "Nerves!": struggling with immobility in The Gambia Local perspectives on transnational relations of Cameroonian migrants The 'CUDA' associations in West Cameroon : between autochtony and transnational virtual communities Africans in Moscow: foreign churches as a factor of socio-cultural adaptation or non-adaptation Dynamics of migration and development cooperation between Sub-Sahara-Africa and Germany Socio-cultural and political change in a transnational group: the Konkombas (Ghana/Togo) Transnationalism and social mobility through the performing arts in Senegal Cosmopolitan reflexivity: towards a transmodal analysis of rituals Intercultural borderlinking, intersubjectivity and self-knowing Perfect praxis in Aikidō - take II: a reflexive body Reflexive anthropology and social activism Ritualization and the reflexive critique of scientism The ethic of being wrong: Levinas in the field Where is anthropology when you need it? Wittgenstein and the ethical reflexivity of anthropological discourse Comparison of open/heterogeneous - closed/homogeneous local systems in dealing with diversity: London Differences among European students in motivation to learn: a cross-cultural study Politics of identity: Saxon-ness without Saxons in a Transylvanian town Sustainable cultural diversity and mutuality: the case of Slovenia Towards sustainable diversity in the city of Bratislava We and others in process of migration Articulating the "powers of sport": Canadians and the discursive construction of American athletic scholarships The aesthetics of skiing in the birth of a nation: the case of Slovenia Revolutionary blasts: the politics of passion within the celebration of home runs in Cuban baseball Celebrating charity through sport Scenery in motion: the event of Laugavegur ultra marathon, Iceland Sport: in the search for immortality National identity and global awareness in two major football tournaments Globalization and the contestation of identities in football Football and the domestication of money: mimetic strategies of Maskoy people in the Paraguayan Chaco Le phénomène sportif en Afrique soudanienne: the sports phenomenon in western Africa Football fandom as a factor behind cultural differentiation: a case study on Sarajevo and Zeljeznicar fans in Bosnia and Herzegovina Divination and Islam: existential perspectives in the study of ritual and religious praxis in Senegal and Gambia Postponing piety in urban Burkina Faso: discussing ideas on when to start acting as a pious Muslim Going to the mulid: street-smart spirituality in Egypt Offerings to sacred fish: a popular sacrificial site in Burkina Faso Expressions of popular piety at the shrine of Santa Maria delle Grazie: the construction of Padre Pio's sanctity Quand des femmes et des réfugié-e-s fabriquent des saints: genre, religion et mémoire à Lesvos (Grèce) Nationalism and Catholicism: The cult of Mary as a mass movement and private piety in Poland Consumption and the Islamic revival in Egypt The cultural politics of shopping and the fashioning of "modern" Albanian subjectivities in the Republic of Macedonia Crafting cosmopolitanism: the production of postmodern trends in the global regionalist culture of the Italian Nordest A nostalgic expression of Kurdishness in humorous popular culture "Loud and clear": The G2 second generations network in Italy Challenging the gaze: art biennales as global places Happy interactivity or hidden distinction: contact zones in the field of contemporary art Black, white and red all over? An anthropology of book fairs Exposed to (in)visibility: the strategies of production of parallel knowledge in the work of Tadej Pogačar Indigenous self-representation: Native American contemporary art and native curating Teens cultures and their representations Island Magic: Tourism and the Dialectics of Self-imaging in La Reunion The warrior-shepherd signifier: locations and meanings of highland Cretan photographic subjects Image & text: (in)visible connections in visual representation of Irish travel advertisement Transforming the Soul of Music into Bodily Practice: Tone Eurythmy's artistic principles and their relation to underlying structure Re-enchanted bodies: the significance of the spiritual dimension in Danish healing rituals. Between the Self and the Other: the interpretation of bodily experiences Body and soul in the occult imaginary in the contemporary Central African Republic "I want to feel the Camino in my legs": trajectories of walking on the Camino de Santiago Becoming sacred: revelation and agency in East Java, Indonesia The Sikhs' bodies: a case of embodiment and ostentation of religious identity The body in "Giglio Feast" in Nola and in Williamsburg Embodying the Holy Ghost: incorporation and time within a Nigerian Pentecostal church in the Netherlands Metaphor, image and change: the body in a missionary and development endeavour Holding the saint in one's arms. Miracles and exchange in Apiao, southern Chile Anxious bodies, performing selves: Greek Orthodoxy in inter/action To heal the sick is to heal oneself: the body as congregation Entre le 'West' et le 'East': le concept de l'Europe centrale One step forward, two steps back: Serbian path to Europe at the beginning of 21 century Sensible memories, embodied borders: an ethnographic research on family resemblances in Warsaw The inner Border: frontiers, structural nostalgia and cultural intimacy in Topolo/Topolove (Natisone River Valley, Udine, Italy) The Integration of "East" and "West": Slovene Eurocrats and shifts in European identity within the institutions of the European Union The Westernised law and the local conditions: the case of informal area in Tirana's suburbia. Practising morality at times of crisis: Palestinian boundary-making during the intifada al aqsa Banal Millenialism: images of the end of the world among Old Colony Mennonites. Dreaming conspiracies: experiencing the law in post-Soviet Chechnya Contesting disaster: politics of memory and oblivion in Santa Fe, Argentina Heroes, massacres, and Svetskava Street 12: remembering the war in Kosovo Alcohol, crack and therapeutic effects of Santo Daime in homelessness Singing sorrow: from emotional attitude to emotional dysfunction Cultural sensitive introduction of HIV/AIDS prevention by initiation ritual of rural girls in Mozambique The use of traditional medicine as an observation during fieldwork in Brazilian Amazon Cancer patients and complementary and alternative medicine in Turkey Thai massage as a therapy: suffering and healing among the Thai urban middle class Trajectories in pain Noisy hearts: auto-auscultation and sound in illness experience Experience of disability in South Africa Gender as a trigger for medical pluralism: differing experiences of madness among Moroccan Berbers Chinese acupuncture in Norway: experiencing traditional Chinese acupuncture in the context of a biomedical evaluation Medical plurality and experiential dualism: a Brazilian case study Traditional and complementary medicines in Istria: intertwining or paralleling? From ignorance to stigmatization: changing faces of medical pluralism Is some training worse than no training? The problem of empathy in multi-cultural care Studying HIV-AIDS in Cartagena-Colombia: dealing with competing knowledge Medical pluralism in post-Soviet Kazakhstan: relations between biomedicine and complementary medicines in the context of political and socio-economic transition The attitude towards official medicine and local healing practices among Polish inhabitants of Pojana Mikuli village in southern Bucovina, Romania. Seeing beyond ethno-racial classifications at South African universities: an anthropological intervention The concept of mutuality and diversity in the socialist and post-socialist period: the Museum of African Art, Belgrade Caught between acronyms: HTS, AAA and the politics of ethics Whither the political party? Discursive aspects of long-term tourism in Spain: the case of Norwegian visitors Challenges and opportunities for involvement with host communities among Nordic long-term visitors and expatriates in Costa Blanca Perception of tourist through the eyes of local residents Are gender roles and ethnicity influenced by tourism in Central Himalaya? New geographies of belonging in the Greek island borderlands "What's the difference what's my nation or religion?" Being a Muslim in Poland: the Polish Tartar case Inter-confessional sociability in a West African village: the Example of Gêba, Guinea-Bissau (West Africa) Metaphorical kinship and religious identity: changing politics of neighbourliness in the Hinterland of Guinea and Liberia Muslims and Christian holy places as a strategy of coping with differences Shared shrines and the construction of local identities in the Balkan and Anatolian world Spaces of separation and of integration: identities and symbolism in the evolution of post-war Mostar The local negociations of the global status of « orphaned and vulnerable children », in the nigerien muslim context Nora's new job: UN coordination in practice Stalling and speeding: ways of speaking at WIPO's intergovernmental committee on cultural property Evolving pasts: the anthropologisation of UNESCO World Heritage Grounding international organizations and indigenous rights in Peru: an anthropological perspective Transparency and the global gaze: the UN and the problem of social accountability Treatmentality: a new approach to the policy and practice of drug use treatment The anthropology of drugs: a modest European proposal Social and cultural dimensions of case management - aspects of control in drug treatment Anthropology of drug policy: how does it fit into already existing drug policy research? Introduction: the rule of Soft Law From "Hard" to "Soft" affirmative action: racial diversity and the use of global policy metaphors in the Brazilian private sector Soft Law in a time of culture: EU bureaucrats and intercultural dialogue CSR as soft regulation: perspectives of using CSR to improve work environment in small companies Soft Law for serious crimes: the duty to remember and the liberty of history From Soft to Hard law: international minority rights instruments and the drafting of a bill of rights for Northern Ireland Scalar selves: narratives, interviews and the responses of informants Theorising diverse understandings of mental disturbance in Khayelitsha, South Africa The anthropology of the possible: the ethnographer as sceptical enquirer For an anti-literalist anthropology Reflexive scepticism and familiar ethnographic objects: finding something to say in the network Ghosts, maths and ethnographic practice The ontological cocktails in everyday theology: forms of transcendence in two Christian traditions The troubled histories of a stranger god: Tagaro and Christianity in North Pentecost, Vanuatu Making and unmaking gods Bethlehem past and present: memories of a lost community Opening up files: adjudication of Egyptian Jewish claims in Cairo Now and then: expressing social time in the refugee camp Of rhythms and refrains in contemporary Damascus: natality and naitivity The art of memory in Mediterranean Croatia Euro-Mediterranean arts and heritage on the southern Italian stage Re-establishing mutuality Emerging ethos: ethnographic notes on "success" in contemporary Brazil Dialogical subjectivities for hard times: expanding political and ethical imaginaries of labour and national elite Batswana women National aspirations, local commitments: elite funerals in Northern Ghana White skin colour and elite distinction on the island of Mauritius From an exclusive elite to nation-builders: the various faces of creoledom in Guinea-Bissau The Kolkata intellectuals and elite identity Debating leadership and legitimacy in Timor Leste Social strategizing within an urban elite in Morocco The politics of conviviality: traditional rural elites and the local state in Southern Mozambique The power of mutuality: authority and legitimacy among traditional and state elites in Southern Ghana Multiparty politics and the (re)production of political elites in Cameroon: the case of the South-West Elites Association (1990-2007) From the cultural construction of terrorists to the social production of antagonism: why social conflict is irreducible to diversity Purifying "Hezbollah": the entanglement of diverse forms of expert knoweldge on "terrorism" in Lebanon Creating enemies in the War on Terror: the reinforcement of essentialized cultural difference through "legalized" torture Sounding ethnography: mutuality and diversity in music Bass nature and the mutuality of creative ecologies in dubstep music (London UK) Spontaneous results of an organised musical experience: a residency of Arab and British musicians in the United Kingdom Anthropologists in the opera: professional engagements and private inclinations in musical life A public square, a stadium, a theatre: experiencing the nation through popular music in Croatia The discourse of 'musical quality' among jazz musicians in Athens Smooth jazz, transnationalism and jazz's mobile representations Behind the iron fence: exploring difference and marginality in Ljubljana Drawing back the curtains: everyday processes of inclusion and exclusion among newly arrived refugees in rural Denmark Fantasy and vulnerability: women histories of forced migration Ruptured lives and reconfigured identities: the impact of foreign domestic work on the lives of migrant women in Canada Imagination of Iranianness "Although I have a Jordanian passport…" memories and dreams of Palestinian refugees in Jordan Human aspirations, migrant experiences: articulations of love, loss and the future in Japan Dreaming of 'home' and 'belonging' in transnational families: generational views on 'return' The work of memory among African immigrants in Lisbon Being human, being Tamil: exploring Tamil refugees' sense of identity and agency Social mobility and personhood among Caribbean migrants Everyday creativity in exile: case studies of two Afghan refugees in Athens Pure cosmopolitans? Keeping community in an international Pentecostal student church Letters from the Azores: building an African Church in the Diaspora The second Adam's generation: on doing and undoing boundaries in an African based Christian Fellowship in Germany African Pentecostalism in Brussels: reconfiguration of gender relation and sexuality in diasporas Contrasted public recognitions of the "Celestial Church of Christ" and the "Nouvelle Jérusalem" in Brussels Closer to Africa or to Rome? Syncretism and religious practice in Portuguese Umbanda and Candomblé Children and youth as diversity managers: religion, ethnicity and gender in Swiss schools Moral upbringing by the state: the 'Orthodox Culture' concept in Russian public schools Striving for survival: children of Jehovah's Witnesses in eastern Germany Remembering "tribal lessons" in Church today: mutuality and diversity on mount Kilimanjaro "Letters to the editor": youth, Islam, and media in Turkey Socializing Islam among young British Muslim women across various contexts Learning to be Jewish: moralities of intergenerational exchange and regeneration in a pluralistic Jewish day school Armies of children: Catholic children and adults in the US, 1925-1975 'Slouching towards Bethlehem,' processing trauma through the site of trauma Visualizing the unseen scars and silent narratives of torture Silencing distressed children in the context of the war in Gulu: an analysis of its cause and its health consequences Engendering suffering in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: an anthropological investigation of the construction of categories of gender and suffering in psychosocial practice in the West Bank War trauma and aftermath: PTSD in Croatian psychiatry Eloquent bodies: responses to violence in northern Sri Lanka Trauma into triumphalism: affective registers of Serbian Orthodox monastics Violence, trauma and identity in Somaliland: a biographical approach Frames: toward an ethnography of the EU policies on protecting and valorising cultural heritage Heritage, ecology and authenticity in the Catalan Pyrenees A proper viewpoint for a valued landscape: analysis of the urbanisation of heritage in the neoliberal city The New Berlin, the contribution of the spirit of capitalism in the reshaping of the city Ideology and the citizen: an ethnography of concepts and praxis in socialist and post-socialist/capitalist Albania Anthropologies of university reform: an introduction Reforming New Zealand's universities: reflections on the production of academic subjects "Indigenizing" or "interculturalizing" universities in Mexico: an ethnography of the local appropiation of globalized diversity discourses inside the "Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural" Excellence in stupidity Trials and tribulations of reformation: prologue to the futures of Turkish university education Disentangling power and discourse: the case of master and "servant" in Serbian higher education reform Student struggles at a struggling institution: the case of University of Limpopo, South Africa International students, consumption and marketing in higher education: student responses in the UK University reform made liveable The Neo-liberal Economisation of Austrian Universities: Conditions for Teaching Anthropology and Anthropological Research Snowball effect: the consequences of the introduction of the university reform for the undergraduate anthropology courses at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" The location of innovation: webs of academic relationships and web-based learning Identités indigènes, autochtones et nationales ? Représentations stratégiques, luttes politiques et enjeux épistémologiques Emergent indigeneity in the first world: the case of Catalonia Boundary crossing and ethnic passing: the negotiation of Fulbe identities in Northern Cameroon From 'the Europe of the regions' to the European Champion League: the electoral appeal of populist autochthony discourses in Flanders Struggles over indigeneity in Kerala La reformulation d'une contestation identitaire à l'épreuve de la globalisation: l'exemple kabyle. Terre Mère, territorialité et identité indigène à Kuna Yala (Panama) Australian Indigenous identity between self-determination, integration and reconciliation Autochtonie et décentralisation: perspective comparative dans des villes moyennes d'Afrique de l'Ouest "Today, I am no Mutwa anymore"- Local reverberations of national unity discourse in present-day Rwanda (Auto)essentialisation des différences culturelles ou comment peuples et Etat jouent à cache-cache The revolutionary state, its opponents and the dilemmas of indigenous identities: dominant discourses and their consequences in Venezuela Legitimacy on stage: discourse and knowledge in environmental review processes in Northern Canada L'identité ethnique "examinée": le cas des expertises anthropologiques sur les terres indigènes en Brésil. Europe and the epistemological bias behind discourses of indigeneity "Love from the roots": the natural laws of family in FamilY Constellation Therapy 'Social Darwinism', examining the anthropological foundations of Peter Singer's ethics Imagining society: some issues in contemporary Norwegian bio-politics International adoption and the construction of a "good" kinship: ethics, justice and truth Interpenetrations of nature and morality: the case of nocturnal seminal emissions in medieval theological thought Moralities of nature: kinship, religion and sciences of reproduction Nature, technology, and morality Regulating assisted procreation: the Italian case Science and religion in traditional Indian medicine Some specificity in the observation of nature: folk traditions in weather forecast "Shipibo-Konibo traditional medicine": the impact of anthropologist's (stupid) questions on an indigenous group's self-perception Investigate the informal market of pharmaceuticals in Cotonou (Benin): between suspicion of treachery and fears of witchcraft Anthropology of pain and suffering: ethical issues From medical research to anthropological research: the case of participants' consent in rural West Africa Applying Ethics to Research Reality: Responsibility, Mutuality, and Participation in the Field Ethical implications of an anthropological approach of suicide Facing the opposition between PEPFAR's (President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief) aims and the EOC's (Ethiopian Orthodox Church) followers living with HIV/AIDS aspires EIDOS: ways of knowing Spatial montage, mutuality and diversity: new possibilities for ethnographic film-making Teaching "the visual" in an undergraduate course of words The new generation of visual anthropologists Visual Ethnography Basics (VEBweb), a web-based teaching package Thinking through violence and impunity: trauma, memory and silence among Yup'ik peoples of western Alaska Ordinary daily social violence in Africa: an offspring of urban anomy and normative confusion The cultural production of violence among Mafiosi Speaking blood: expressions of sexual violence in Guadeloupe On secrecy, myth and violence in Eastern Turkey Impunity and the lexicon of victim precipitation in "peacetime" Guatemala Three years after the terrorist attack: emotions, memory and politics in Beslan Interpreting politicial violence in post-civil war Lebanon, 1989-2007 City of fear: everyday life strategies and tactics for coping with street violence in Recife Discursive strategies: how Israeli soldiers explain what they do and why they do it Narratives of Violence: temporality, corporality and justice Talks of refugees': African asylum claimants in Israel. Anfal and Halabja expressed in diaspora: narrations of violence twenty years after genocidal processes against Kurds in Iraq Aesthetic triage: cosmetic surgery as an experimental medical technology in Brazil Surplus materials from humans as a commodity in research Anthropological assessment on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS in Lesotho The implementation of pre-symptomatic genetic testing in Austrian genetic counselling services Relations men can buy through brideprice payment: an example from the Island Pura in the Alor-Pantar-Archipelago (Eastern Indonesia) Wedding "GIFTS": entrance-Fee or generosity? Interests, sentiments and mutuality The meaning of money for Ukrainian migrant women "They are ungrateful!" Cape Verdean notions of transnational obligations "Give them money to sustain me": ambigiuties of Cameroonian male redistribution Shaping money and socialities in the realm of encounters between foreign tourists and Cubans/jineteros Domestic workers and the morality of money and family care Abjects into subjects: games of control and eesistance in a retention centre for deported foreigners in contemporary France An ethnography of the migrants landing: the case of Lampedusa (Italy) Asylum seekers and refugees in Portugal: field perspectives concerning psychical and mental health Border zones and alien detention in France Control, pity and illicitness: Seeking asylum in Czech refugee camps Fieldwork behind bars: researching alien confinement in French prisons Laughter and subversion in « retention place» The hanging status of asylum seekers: the limbo of temporary residence Trapped in the asylum space, lost in the waiting time: everyday experiences of asylum seekers in French reception centers Norwegian academic anthropologists in public places Challenging romology as anthropological engagement Doing ethnography and getting involved: reflections from researching immigration, exclusion and resistance Ethnography as engagement: synergies of academic knowledge and advocacy in an indigenous land claim (Tupinambá of Olivença, Brazil) Excerpt from the diary of a circumstantial activist: engagements and predicaments in studying global migration First and foremost we must understand: research among the Roma in the Czech Republic On the significance of German identity and whiteness for Argentinians of German descent in Buenos Aires The making of political discourses and practices in an Argentinean slum The doing of identity through economic and ritual activities in Cusco, Peru Indigenous identity in times of globalization Identity formation among Afro Brazilian capoeira teachers in a transnational context The poet on the bridge in the "biblical land": art, ideology and borders in the Republic of Macedonia "Public" diplomacy and the politics of carrots and sticks: "international community" press conferences in post-conflict Macedonia Ethnography on "socially marginalized groups: a community-based study on most at-risk adolescents in regards to HIV/Aids/STI In Macedonia Envisioning place, change and the 'nation-state' on the peripheries of Europe The high wall and the narrow gate: Albanian borders at the margins of europe Re-defining markers and re-conceptualisation of the Lithuanianness “Excluding Europe”: national(ist) politics and narratives of (dis)placement in greater Belgrade after Kosovo's independence The iconography of memories in contemporary Estonia and Slovenia Distrust: negotiating women's agency within a fundamentalist Catholic milieu in Poland Informal relations and trust: the case of Polish migrant women in Italy Can we trust them? Schengen enlargement and security discourse Fieldwork experiences of trust and distrust in Croatia The making of 'Hearing and Touching Leuven': blindness and multi-sensorial experience in cities Collaborating on the production and trade of images of cultural diversity of the Rift Valley Capturing public space: context and consequence in visual practices Narration of triumph or narration for triumph: Morteza Avini's war documentary film The interactive village: a re-configurable digital ethnography Ways of seeing, ways of filming: theory and practice in visual anthropology "War in particular offers exceptionally favorable opportunities for surveying foreign racial material" (Otto Reche (1879-1966), 1944) The suspicious anthropologist: elaborating on my mother's Holocaust Rethinking Somalia and the role of anthropologists Cycles of success and failure in advocacy The "microcosm" of a refugee project in Syria on the brink of the Iraq war Anthropology, governmentality and the peace process in Ireland No hope for healing at home: AIDS, emigration, and the search for health Stress resulting from cultural dissonance as an underlying cause of out-migration from Senegal to Europe "I will kill myself if they deport me": negotiating citizenship at a mental health consultation in Canada Caught in the multicultural riddle: discursive frames of Turkish/Kurdish-speaking psychotherapists in Germany Badanti: immigrant women as caregivers to Italian elderly Flexibility and friction: conflicts in UK/Spanish health tourism and medical migration Teaching and experiencing diversity: the minor programme Global Nursing as part of the nursing studies at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Nursing Turkish Europeanization and the cultures of EU lobbying in Brussels Transparency/visibility and dissimulation/opacity in a street level bureaucracy, the Portuguese Police Police agents face prostitues: a singular case of bureaucratic relationship? From registers of interaction to the exercise of the police power. Dis-locating the state from the border post: reflections of doing ethnography with bureaucrats on Romania-Serbia border Innovative bureaucrats: analyzing the working practices of bureaucrats Training Bureaucrats, Practicing for Europe: Constitutive Bureaucratic Imaginaries in Turkey Instances of bureaucracy: the meeting format as a shaper of the decision making process Playing it safe or going all out in Brussels: how national bureaucrats do European business "Pioneers of integration"? "Old" and "new" Europe in the European Commission's bureaucracy Confessional communities in Greece and violence: analyzing the "anti-Catholic syndrome" during the Yugoslavia's crisis From coexistence to violence: towards a typology of exchange processes in South Thailand Greek Orthodox and Muslim communities: from coexistence to the exchange of population Staging difference: dynamics of religious othering among Catholics and Muslims in West Flores, Eastern Indonesia Afraid of the Minaret? Ethnographic elaborations on the semiology of illustrated arguments Questions of scale: violence, insecurity and community in Kei (Eastern Indonesia) Violence, empathy, and the ethnography of fakesOnly papers that have been accepted by workshop convenors will be shown here.
A cosmopolitan Europe? On the politics of culture talk in the rescaling of governance in the EU Entangled cultural hegemonies in central Europe and beyond Governance of or through culture: cultural policy and the making of Europe Culture across cultures: social boundaries and mutuality in a Western Macedonian village Religion as legal culture: secularism and eeligious minorities in EU and Turkey Intangible hertitage governance, cultural diversity, ethnonationalism Old toxic wine in new bottles or new poison? Migrants hostile discourses in The Netherlands in the light of ethnicity and diversity "The corrosion of character" revisited: flexible work in practice From 'mutuality' to 'precariousness': a case-study in the Portuguese call-centre industry Stress-management in the flexible work-ethic Lean management as a cultural system: ideology as common sense Corporate social responsibility and employees in Ireland Mutuality and flexibility at work Work, reciprocity and migration: rebuilding biographies in the changing realm of work And who is ever going to break a lance for free lancers? Discourses on diversity and identity produced by leading London companies Training for flexibility: discourses and practices of international student travel From employed to 'employable': An ethnographic case study of 'conceptual inflation' in HR policies and practices Visual ethnography as an emancipatory act Twenty years of filming in the Southern Banat: so what? On some problems of shooting films with multiethnic communities Visual research of lullabies and soothing rituals in Slovenia Functionality, accessibility and communicativeness as essential specifics of ethnographic film in SEM Trends in Macedonian visual anthropology From the 'staged folklore' to the ethnographic filmmaking A brief overview of the new ethnological film in Macedonia A local community and a photographer - a photographer and a local community "We don't sell our country!" Property restitution and identity politics in postsocialist Romania Elections in Sarajevo: images of boundaries, borders and walls Newborn citizens in a post-Soviet landscape Spies, fugitives and illegal immigrants: defining the limits of legitimacy at the Greek-Albanian border Studying migration in the Greek-Albanian border region: tHeoretical and methodological issues The 'hidden stories' of Lussìn families: emotions and the transmission of discourses of identity among the Italian minority of Lošinj / Lussino, Croatia A tale of two celebrations: the Kadazan harvest festival (Sabah, East Malaysia) as a site of struggle The revival of the community house (guol) among the Katu of Central Vietnam: empowerment or impoverishment? Ethnic minorities in Vietnam in official discourse: the case of Vietnam Museum of Ethnology The cultural politics of good governance: crisscrossing articulations of the global and the local in Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia) Translocal identities in the Indonesian Malay world Islam and empowerment: challenges for young Indonesian Muslim women Migration recycled: Vietkieu and the construction of the Vietnamese modernity Ethnicity in upland Southeast Asia: a systems theory approach An ethnography of culture-identity switch in North Burma A propos of the statute of purity of blood in the Society of Jesus (1593) Reproduction between species in Amerindian cosmologies "Pure" and "mixed" in nationalist discourse: immigrants and "xarnegos" in the sixties and seventies in Catalonia Sephardim in modern Spain: between nationalism, antisemitism y and philosephardism Black African heritage in Spain: the forgotten migration Between various homes: considering ambivalent identities of Slovene returned emigrants and their descendents through the notion of home Crossing religious borders and identities in Denmark and Brazil: a comparative perspective The making of a "wantok": (post)colonial social categories and ambivalency of identities among Okapians in Port Moresby "Black Madonna" versus "White Madonna": spiritual feminist pilgrimages in France and the changing significances attributed to dark Madonna statues Gorovodu in Bénin and Togo: between "syncretism" and "traditional religion" Kitui "culture" as the Other of the modern monoliths: development, religion and the obscure material culture of Andu Manthi On conceptual analogy: a new analytical approach to religious syncretism - a case study from Alaska Polish Lutherans between "Catholic" state and evangelical movements Religious diversity in the Western Himalayas and in Western Tibet: Tibetan Buddhism, Bon religion and 'local' religious traditions and the function of spirit possession/trance-mediums The "church of Sakalava": towards the construction of religion by a Malagasy social setting The blurring of religious boundaries: Sekrenyi and Christmas among the Christian Angami The syncretism of Christian Orthodoxy and black magic in Macedonia: everyday ritual practice and ritual avoidance of the contamination of the body Inspiring knowledge Describing knowledge roads in Vanuatu Gaps in Knowledge? Ethnographic practice, addition and collaborative endeavour Invisible families - imagining relations in families based on same-sex partnerships Visions of modernity: re-routing knowledge through people and things in a large scale resettlement project Digital afterlives: human remains in interactive formats the eleventh hour: climate crisis, obviation and retirementOnly papers that have been accepted by workshop convenors will be shown here.
'Wagon brothers, wagon sisters': symbolic and actual siblingship in a situation of life crisis Obligation, care, and struggle for personal freedom: siblings within the matrilineal Akan Sisters and marriage in Shona society, Zimbabwe "The brother is a trap": rethinking brother-sister relationships in a Lebanese town What is a brother? A discussion about the notion of brother in the Tajik context A brother as saviour: siblings and family in Bénin Peasant lawyers, law activism and the morality of politics in China Constitutionalism in an insurgent state: plurality and the rule of law in Bolivia Getting a divorce in Spain: legal pluralism, gender and migration Discord and judicial divorce in the Damascus and Marrakesh Muslim family courts: a comparative evaluation Legal diversity within and beyond the scope of the state: faith-based dispute management in Canada in the aftermath of the shari'a law dispute in Ontario and its repercussions in Morocco Tortured ethics: doubt and commitment in the UN human rights system Global order in the making: the local production of international criminal law National law and policy-making in the shadow of international institutions Legal pluralism in the wild: rules of encounter and their effects on imaginings and practices of wilderness Between custom, Islamic and Algerian laws: diya (blood-money) in the perspective of legal pluralism Transforming traditions: myths and stereotypes about traditional law in a globalizing world Everyday technologies of Indian film: Bollywood meets Tibet in exile Portuguese voices abroad: representations, discourses and agendas of a migrant TV Show Indigenous media technology production in Northern Ontario, Canada Getting bored: mobile phone use among Romanian teenagers Media technologies at home: how urban poor (culturally) consume mass media? Second Life, second body: a microethnographic analysis of nonverbal communication in the "Second Life" virtual environment "Everything is changing" - on digital imaging practices by amateur photographers Integration and transnational practices Identities and transnational migratory spaces: female migrants from the former Soviet Union in Slovenia Elderly women with Ingrian background across the Finnish-Russian border: the questions of identity, belonging and mutual care. The systems of mutual assistance among the Africans in moscow Leavers and stayers discuss returning home 'Welcome to the FoE family': the constitution and maintenance of mutuality at a distance in a transnational community Liquid lives: migration in the times of globalisation Cambodian refugees and naturalization Culture, state and the fertility transition in rural South China Narratives in parent's organisations of adoptive families in Spain: between commodities and gifts, market and kinship Opposing the 'quiet revolution': the way to have children and university education The invisible families Assessing the reality of dream images: a true-false quiz in New Guinea Gold mining and the mirroring of dreaming and waking life among the Hamtai-Anga of Mount Kaindi, Papua New Guinea. Dreams and culture: the contents of dreams-sharing communication in modern Slovenia Dreaming, Islam and the Ahmadiyya Muslims in the UK The role of night dream incubation (Istikhara) in contemporary Islamic public life Dreaming up futures: dream omens and magic in Bishkek Dreaming and the Other Dreams as a communication method between the living and the dead Different by nature Anthropology, historical and natural science of culture Mind, self and society: a critical view about the contemporary naturalistic way to conceptualize the identity group and the human nature The naturalness of the difference, the politics of culture: some notes on Indian thought and practice The borderline between humanity and animality: when categories are used as onthologies The human nature in question: the re-naturalization of human being? Refugee children's status in the Norwegian welfare state and role in their family Children, immigration policy and citizenship - Norway as case With near and distant kin: growing up in transnational families Parenting transnational children Disruptive continuities in time and place: informal care of children in the Finnish-Russian borderland Circulation of Russian children in the process of migration: in and between Learning for precarity: identities and strategies of precarious adolescents with immigrant background Children and migration in Switzerland: coping with mutuality and diversity in Swiss schools Ethnic identity and acculturation process: Bosnian immigrant adolescents in Croatia Immigrant girls and boys: navigating between the ideal student Learning positions as future citizens at primary school: diverse conditions of incorporation for the children of immigrant families in the Catalan coast Re-thinking social security, welfare and the privatization of care Ageing in diverse social contexts and the challenge of comparison Between formal and informal care: the permeable boundaries of home and care for older people “In the best interests of the child”: the Intergenerational legacy of past indigenous child welfare policies in Australia Volunteers wanted! Emerging discourses of care, gendered citizenship and the self in the Czech non-profit sector Poverty relief as neoliberal education The conceptual framework of social workers The production of social security in a rural Russian context: an agenda for research Intergenerational care under the condition of vulnerability: the case of urban Burkina Faso Bi-cultural politics in a cosmopolitan city: Latinos' experiences in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand Resisting mutuality: multiculturalism and the controvery about the white working classes in Britain The "cosmopolitanisms" of (Moldovan) postsocialist domestics in Istanbul and their Turkish employers Precarious labour, legal ambiguity and contested cosmopolitanism in Moscow's migrant construction brigades Urban child soldiering: boys' armies, urban cosmopolitanism and new cultures of violence in Indian slums Cosmopolitanism at the margins of tolerance "Even our village is part of Europe": rural lives on Europe's eastern fringe Being an “outsider” and being a woman: a study of social transformation in the Catalan Pyrenees A good place to live or a good place to leave? Young people and migration decision making in rural Austria Diversity in the mind: rural homestayers and their perspectives of the world out there “Honour and shame” on the move: sexualities and multicultural tensions in an Austrian town African migrant networks in Germany Integration between the poles of cultural difference: the intersectionality of Islam and gender in the Tyrolean municipality of Telfs Contested integration: local policies and responses in small-town Germany Spaces of transition? Trajectories of juvenile assertion in urban Côte d'Ivoire The role of public square in the formation of public sphere: the case of Romania in early post-communist period Then and now: the temporal structures of the transmission of republican attachments Route of conflict and tradition: commemoration parades in Belfast Identities, sexualities and commemorations: public space and sexual dissidence The changing memory landscape of the East European provincial city: the case of Gliwice and the recovery of a multicultural past Post-socialist transformation and monument-building in a Slovakian town Valentin Vodnik, 'the first Slovenian poet' Institutions and ethnoscapes: the BBC World Service Tamil and Sinhala services amidst the Sri Lankan civil war Acceptance and resilience towards the EU institutional culture model Changing conceptions of personhood in contemporary Turkey: an upper middle class school ethnography Modern institutions in a cross-cultural perspective: the case of a feasibility study in Vanuatu (South Pacific) Doing research in a "Romani NGO": dilemmas of involvement A Moslem institution in a Hindu world and in a modern and secular state A double play: 'translating' between the discursive practices of anthropology and Chinese media corporation Manufacturing loss: evasion and nostalgia in a German industrial town A history interrupted: social identity and cultural change in modern Palestine Individual and collective appropriations of loss in post-war Bosnia Becoming parent through loss Narratives of temporality in the making of a vanishing landscape The loss of wheeler craft From land to landscape: from tangible to intangible; recognising a sense of loss and grief Men who have sex with men and the loss of future "Homecoming" and "home" revisited: the case of co-ethnic "return" migrations Coming home to the world: the remaking of Bosnian village life Diasporic homecomings beyond the ethnic lens: encounters in post-Soviet Armenia Homecoming as Heritage: Idioms of Return in the Rebuilding of Protea Village, Cape Town Return migration and homecomingd - sorting out the difference Roots-migrants: the second generation 'returning' home "Best Version": performing middle-classness through the consumption of pirated DVDs Embroideries on the web "Samples" of copyright's multiple meanings: intellectual ownership and cultural representation in world-music The paradox of gypsy music revised: properties and improprieties of gypsyness at world music scene Memory, imagination, and montage Cinematic constraints and ritual dances Deterritorialization of power: filmic representations as a critique of representation Representing the "Other" in "global documentary": intersections between political commitment and reality claim The dynamics of "assemblage": an analysis of Perrault multiple uses of editing in "The Land Without Trees or the Mouchouânipi" (RE:) Image-ining African experimental ethnographic film: insights from the surrealist movement and contemporary African philosophy on the ethnological importance of montage Non-representational and anti-didactic: the ethnographic exhibition as collage How to 'cut' without loosing your head? The pre-textual basis of ethnographic knowledge step by step A phenomenology and praxeology of Dogon landscape: sensory kinetic experiences as modes of writing and constructing anthropological knowledge Observant participation among immigrant amateur football matches Movement of large bodies impaired: somatic and semiotic Issues Audio anthropology: chances and challenges The structure of anthropological research: a phenomenological hermeneutics The methodological problem of the epoché Migrant and "second generations" associations in Italy Politicizing ethnicity: African Associations in Belgium Diverse meanings and uses of Germanness: who is when a German in Kazakhstan? The "Peruvian Association of Siena": negotiation between different cultural identities and strategies of incorporation within the local community The influence of local administration and policy on the structuring and dynamics of migrants' associationism: Castelfiorentino and migrants from Morocco Bolivian domestic workers in Barcelona: negotiations of citizenship rights in the context of precarious labour markets, migration policies, and non-governmental associations Women, associative groups and practices of citizenship Ghanacoop case: diasporic discourses and localised practices of co-development Associational life, citizenship and the public sphere in Britain: the case of two Ghanaian associations in London Socio-cultural anthropology and the European research area: a Europeanist turn in the discipline? An anthropological approach to hegemony in Catholic majority societies across Europe Deepening urban democracy? A new subject at the margins: migration studies in Bulgaria Reclaiming European heritages of transatlantic migration: politics of identity of the descendants of early east European immigrants to Texas Where postcolonialism meets postsocialism: African migrants in Russia as a new research field (Re)creation of Europeanness: construction of Self and the Other by Polish tourists visiting former Soviet Union countries Anthropological inquiries on the politics of memory in contemporary Europe Teaching human sameness, a neglected prerequisite Cultural diversity: content, context and possibilities Rethinking diversity through peace education The European joint MA "CREOLE": teaching diversity on diverse levels When diversity enters the classroom: experiences from a Slovenian minority school on the Italian border Articulating ’diversity’ in Swedish teacher education programmes The notion of anti-souvenirs Maasai beadwork for sale: destruction of culture or perpetuation of traditional handicraft? Du souvenir a l'avenir: animal memories, animal futures Books on culture as souvenirs of cultural adventure Of tourist art and souvenirs: for a transversal analysis of travellers and their objects Collecting souvenirs, collecting tourists scientists, tourists and travel objects of the Canary Islands Religious experience among the members of Hare Krishna community in Zagreb, Croatia: approaches and interpretations Be(com)ing a cult member or spirit medium: the malopo cult in South Africa revisited Spirit possession among the Miskitu of Nicaragua Hypnosis - a trance of possession without possession On somatic markers of trance and possession trance in three cultures: similarities and differences Spirit possession in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal Demons and paths to church adherence ('votserkovlenie'): possession and conversion around a Russian Orthodox exorcist the work of imagination in religious experience Les cris des dieux dans la umbanda The enactment of self and the nature of knowledge among mediums in Cuban espiritismo Learning possession in the Xangô cult of Recife (Brazil): outline of an emotional theory "Possession" and anthropology's containment of a crisis in categories e-paper Narrative reconstruction of spirit possession experience: the double hermeneutic of Gaddis religious specialists in Western Himalaya (India) e-paper Voyages chamaniques et expériences profanes en Sibérie du Sud On "at home anthropology": "indigenous" perspectives Pathways of anthropology in South Eastern Europe: an ethnographic approach of the discipline and its disciples in Bulgaria and Greece East looks east: Slovenian and Chinese (post)socialisms compared Making sense of ideologies and practices of local democracy circulating between East and West: fieldwork in a local community office in Bosnia-Herzegovina Third Age as an ideology and as an analytical category: how the concept can be applicable in Polish anthropology? Effects of legal changes in Lithuanian countryside after the entrance to the EU Death in the life of Ukrainian migrants to Italy Multiple temporalities of Chechen and Ingush refugees in Lublin (Eastern Poland) What we missed: institutions and community care in psychiatry (Czech Republic) Socialis art, socialist lifestyle - alleviating memories of socialist past in Poland Material hyper-evidence: objects of the new plutocracy in Bratislava Bones, buttons and photographs: objects for remembrance in the exhumation of mass graves of the Spanish civil war Materializing memory: the Armenian loss after the postsocialist changem The policies of identity: the Lithuanian case New patterns of local identity based on the enacted historic landscape: example of the Gdansk (Danzig) recollections literature The extended case for method Bohemian methodologies? On methodological relics: etic outsiders, emic insiders, and fieldwork relationships Personal relations, interlocution and ethnographic knowledge Sensuous anthropology: rehabilitating craftsmanship in scientific practice South African fieldwork, intimacy, and anxiety: how methodological problems turn out to be theoretical insights From kinship studies to the analysis of relatedness: a new method of mutuality to the analysis of mutuality in everyday life "It has always to do with the veil...": experiences with discrimination and racism of muslim women from the Islamic Centre Munich Veiled women and bearded men: transforming Muslim identities in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina The Rufai order in Croatia through an ethnomusicological and a gender perspective Experiencing Sufi music abroad: the case of Sudanese living in Austria Redefining the Muslim identity: Tatars in Poland Living in America, believing in Macedonia: an ethnographic account on mimicry and creativity in representations of Bektashism The experience of diversity and mutuality through an ethnography and historical anthropology of Islam in Albania The production of 'Norwegian Muslims': from immigrants to citizens? The day they caught Saddam: diasporic public space among Iraqi refugees in Finland Proper 'traditional' versus dangerous 'new': religious ideology and idiosyncratic Islamic practices in post-Soviet Chechnya Collecting thoughts - about collecting Collecting/exposing the self: the museum as photo opportunity Collected — neglected a fictive biography of ceramics from Asyut, Egypt Thinking about the different meanings of collecting: the case of the collections of images and objects of the Bamileke's community of Bandjoun, Cameroon Micromuseums for big questions: collecting maritime remains as an everyday political practice aesthetics of care among the elderly Views of Europe: debatable lands "The state is only on the map": narratives on Calabria Movements of opening and closure in everyday Balkanism Mountains, valleys and other divisions in Bosnia and Hercegovina “The Mediterranean as it once was” (and will be): valorizing the Adriatic seascape Contrasting moralities of rural landscapes in southern Europe 'This is the way we do it': enacting efficient charity Crowd crystals and birdwatchers: charismatic leadership in volunteer organisations Pensioned Norwegians in Spain: adaption, networking and identities in making Selfish giving: the discourse of volunteering motivations Watching nature: birdwatchers as volunteers for biodiversity monitoring Are the Gredos Mountains only to be for the wolves? The control and management of a Spanish protected area Balkans Peace Park project Farmers and/or hunters: negotiating heritage in an Alpine National Park Local ecological knowledge also comes "from books": cultural change, landscape transformation and conservation of biodiversity in two natural protected areas in Portugal The french model of national parks: territoriality and temporality Follow the container: negotiating belonging and loyalties through transnational charity Paying off the debt: Filipino transnational belonging and engagement in development projects Significance of remittances in formation of social networks among Arabs and Bosniaks in Slovenia Objects, scents and tastes from a distant home: Goan Catholic Brahmin families The emigrated saint: ritual practices of reciprocity among Sicilian migrants in Germany "Everything has changed": anchoring the transnational practices and incorporation Reciprocity materialised: ethnicity and class as empirical questions Struggling anthropologically and politically with tourism in Central/Eastern Europe: cases from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro Perspectives on tourism in the Czech Republic: old approaches, new dilemmas “Sustainable” tourism and area studies - west looking east 1932 - 2007 Tourism in the Karst region in Slovenia: redevelopment after the decline during the Socialist period Welcoming the guest: a new attitude or an old habit? Holy Ghost festivals In the Americas: spontaneous diffusionism and ritual differentiation Suomen Papagaio: a samba school in Helsinki Export processing zones within the project of modernisation: a theoretical and empirical re-evaluation of diffusionism, imperialism and globalism Diffusion of culture in the cross river region Moral responses to an HIV/AIDS epidemic: a comparison of Russian Orthodox Church and secular NGO discourse and practice Patron-client relations: ritualized Okyl ata-ene in Kyrgyzstan "Godparenthood capitalism": strong ties as anchor and shield in illegal economic practices Next door neighbour relations - the case of a rural community in Patkovac, Croatia Between groups and rhizomes: a pragmatic perspective on anthropological means of presentation Easy come, easy go: arbitrary encounters and homeless survival in post-Soviet Russia Indonesian labor Brokers and rhizomatic connections Temporary connections and stable social networks. the case of diasporic Hadhrami Arabs in peripheral Indonesia Toward the ethnography of the rhizomatic "Because I am not happy that Audi is prospering": reshaping workers' nationalist sentiments in postsocialist Hungary Articulating the right to the city. Working class nationalism in Cluj after the fall of the socialism Class without consciousness: regional identity in northern Italy in late modernity Nationalism versus European belonging: the usefulness of 'class' in reading through 'identity dilemmas' in contemporary Serbia The sin of socialism: nationalist mobilization in "transitional" Hungary Together, but still apart: class positions and identities among football fans in Cluj-Napoca, Romania Experiencing happiness in anthropology: methodological concerns with theoretical, moral and political implications Title: 'Bollywood makes you happy': visual and other pleasures among European fans Happiness, uncertainty and ethical dilemmas in a neonatal care unit Between momentary happiness and lifelong fulfilment: emotional trajectories of British migrants to southwest France “Writing up” imaginatively: memory, evocation and (re-)presentation Semiotic-material aspects of memory practices at school Local landscape as a substratum for the collective memory Building possible pasts Stereotypes and emblems in the construction of social imaginatio: the case of a French "new city", Villeneuve d'Ascq Visualizing the past: monuments and commemoration in border areas Remembering a monumental dismantlement Imaging and remembering incorporation of disaster Symbolic interactionism: self-presentation based on semantics of time related constructs Staged history in local settings La construction de la mémoire coloniale en Erythrée: les Erythréens, les Métis, les Italiens Sensing memories among Portuguese Muslims of Indian-Mozambican origin Between two culturally diverse countries: constructing the Georgian identity in the Israeli society "Italiani Brava Gente" ("Italians good people"): reflections on myths, nationhood and entertainment in contemporary Italian public culture Narrating and imagining the Ethnic Other: discursive practices of differentiation and inclusion in the museums of Kunming, China Mémoire de femmes dans une vallée sidérurgique en déclin: complexification d'une identité ouvrière Building interconnectedness: managing flows and ruptures in a complex international project Desire for the local in a well-founded tower of Babel: global stories from a Moroccan school "Creole" as a model of culture? Reflexivity and essentialism in anthropology Appropriation Processes between Center and Periphery Conceptualizing the 'C-word' yet again, or: about historical creolization's contemporary outcome* Specters of comparativism: contemporary conjurations of a "minor" anthropological genre Critique at large Aesthetics and social change in Okpella (Edo State), Nigeria Cornerstone of local history: an Ethiopian town 35 years later Making sense of change: how to articulate the past and the present in ethnographic Inquiry? “Arthur Murrays” exposed: difference, similarity and a return to the dancefloor “Women at a loss” – twenty-five years later "Mbedd baa ngi ni!" (here's the street): the representation of urban spaces among young Senegalese rappers Beyond "revolutionary glamour": toward a critical essay on Angela Davis as cause célèbre of American radicalism Surinamese maroons as reggae artistes: music and marginality in Paramaribo The promise of a utopian home, or capitalism's commoditisation of blackness The white negro reconsidered: an exercise in ethnographic reflexivity Vienna street heroes - black music in parks Difference and identity among the Calon Gypsies in São Paulo (Brazil) Accumulation of wealth, economy of prestige and politics of kinship in a "traditional" Roma community in postsocialist Romania Cultural fundamentalism and the political imagination: the case of 'Roma'/'Gypsies'/'nomads' in Florence, Italy (1988-2007) Differentiating Gypsiness: the case of Slovakian Roma migrants in Slovakia and in migration contexts What is this "Roma" in Roma popular culture? Strategies of appropriation and the politics of music-making Articulations of power: Rom life struggles beyond resistance Escaping Gypsyness: the marginalization of Roma through power and identity Ritual reflexivity in the formation of Alevi identity Ritual transformation of "the course of things" as a response to AIDS in South Africa Catalysing processes and conditions in ritual dynamics: the case of the Marian pilgrimage in El Rocío "Agreeing to disagree": reflexivity as ritual performance The tactical work of play in a Brazilian Catholic prayer group Cosmology and the virtual Changing glances: reflecting ritual in early ethnographic cinema Reflecting the mirror images of mimetic acts: filming and theorizing as refractions of Ritual Practice American conservatism and the status of political belief Digestion as cultural critique: mainstream American culture and US 'drop out' diets Listening to the sermon in gay congregations National images of countries: Russia, UK and Iran in American press coverage Ambivalent Americanization: consumer culture and supermarkets in Italy Americanization and the Dutch meat industry: rationalization and moral economy Americanization and its discontents. the case of Czech Budweiser American emotions meet with Polish emotions Amway the Thai way: direct sale and the businesses of faith Fire on the mountain: country music and the politics of war MacDavidification? Making the holy land look right for American protestant pilgrims An anthropological approach of large dams in France and worldwide Cairo's city of the dead: urban vs rural among the dwellers of the cemetery Common ground for understanding vs. common language: illustrating experiences of daily life after natural disasters Digging for a living in Liberia e-rotic entrepreneurs: selling sex in Dublin Folk culture and cultural heritage in Ribatejo, Central Portugal Hate couture: the deployment of the spectacular in live performances InterMultiFemina - an anthropological analysis of ethnic minority-women’s narratives about health and general well-being Itineraries and routes: anthropological perspectives on tourism and free climbing La Zen et la construction sociale de l'anthropologue Measures and practices of the educational system concerning Gypsies: results of two case studies in Romania and Portugal Motherhood and access: the dialectic between health services and the community in Southern Mozambique Moving anthropology student network Nature and culture in the watered landscapes on a Dalmatian island The 'clothing of light': from magic healing to biophotonic therapy Whose corruption: neo-lliberalism, class and the European integration to the East