Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Ethnography

  1. Murui-Muina use language differences to mark subgroup identity
    Ethnographic study of how Murui-Muina speakers in the Colombian Amazon use lexical contrasts to sustain four ethnolinguistic subgroups, challenging conventional definitions of language.
  2. Counter-Visual Artifacts: Negotiating Surveillance and Carceral Visuality in Public Housing through Videovoice
    Public housing residents use smartphones to create counter-visual documentation challenging surveillance systems, reclaiming agency over how they are seen and represented in their communities.
  3. Moving Readers
    Ethnography of Berlin's literary field examining how migrant writers navigate cosmopolitan ideals, language as event and memory, and resistance to translation and assimilation demands.
  4. Japan’s defense buildup coexists with strong pacifist attitudes
    Sociological study examining how Japan reconciles increased defense spending with persistent pacifism through war frames, public attitudes, and civil society voices following Russia's 2022 invasion.
  5. Rural schooling is shaped by local, digital, and spatial tensions
    Ethnographic study of Swedish rural education reveals tensions between local traditions and global digital influences, showing how place-making shapes students' aspirations and futures.
  6. Spiritual legitimacy shapes maternal referral decisions in Akit community
    Ethnographic study exploring how spiritual legitimacy functions as symbolic infrastructure organizing maternal health decisions among the Akit Indigenous community in Indonesia, challenging.
  7. Manx new speakers differ in ideas about “good” language use
    Analysis of language ideologies and attitudes toward morphosyntax among new speakers of Revitalized Manx, examining beliefs about linguistic correctness in minoritized language revitalization.
  8. Young African migrants in the UK use religion as a hybrid resource
    Explore how young Nigerian and Zimbabwean migrants in the UK navigate religion and spirituality across individual, communal, and transnational dimensions, challenging linear integration models.
  9. Beyond human kinship
    Animistic ontology reframing of Mesolithic-Neolithic Baltic Sea imagery challenges Western interpretive frameworks through immanentist iconography and siberian ethnographic comparison.
  10. Bette-Obudu women use daughters' names to resist patriarchy
    Ethnographic investigation of female-child naming among Bette-Obudu women in Nigeria, examining how mothers use daughter-naming as resistance to patriarchal structures and assertion of female agency.
  11. Western music therapy and Ndëpp share some practices but differ deeply
    Comparative analysis of Western music therapy and Senegalese Ndëpp healing ritual, examining therapeutic parallels and cultural divergences in individual versus community-centered healing frameworks.
  12. Aceh’s Tamiang memory of Gajah Mada differs from the Java version
    Explore how Aceh's Tamiang people preserve and transform the Majapahit narrative of Patih Gajah Mada through oral tradition, challenging Javanese-centered historical accounts with locally grounded.
  13. Paiwan views of the clouded leopard challenge extinction as final
    Ethnographic examination of Paiwan ontologies of the Formosan clouded leopard reveals extinction as relational transformation rather than terminal loss, challenging Western conservation frameworks.