Ethnography of a Land Grab and Gendered Coping Strategies in Northern Sierra Leone

Despite an increased scientific interest in the relatively new phenomenon of large-scale land acquisition (LSLA), data on the implementation of such projects and their impacts on the heterogeneous group of project-affected people are still sparse and superficial. Our ethnographic in-depth research on a Swiss-based bioenergy project in Sierra Leone generates well-documented data and provides insights into gendered access to land and wage employment. In the area where the project is located, customary land tenure applies. Thereby, women are structurally discriminated since they are not entitled to own land. However, user rights grant women and non-landowning men access to land and associated resources. Following the investing development banks’ guidelines, the company considered the local customary law when implementing its project. Nevertheless, the company only consulted and compensated landowners although women and non-landowning men could previously benefit from acquired land as well. Moreover, the company’s policy to enhance employment possibilities for women is barely implemented, and only few local women are hired. In order to cope with the transformed situation some women and non-landowning men continue to engage in subsistence farming on a reduced area of land. Others are involved in informal petty-trade or cooking food for the labourers whereby they subsidize the capitalist production of the company. In one village, women resisted additional land takes of the company. Acting within the framework of a specific power constellation on community level and simultaneously accommodating their claims within policy paradigms on transnational level, they were able to force a landowner to refuse leasing land to the company.

Zuni elders: Ethnography of American Indian aging

Problem/purpose. The specific aim of this focused ethnography was to provide insight into the experience of aging of the American Indian (AI) elder as demonstrated by one tribe, the Zuni of New Mexico. Discovering how Zuni elders construct the experience of aging and the associated behaviors allowed the researcher to deconstruct aging and then re-present it in a cogent description for this population. Such a description is lacking in the literature and will be useful in planning for culturally relevant eldercare services. ^ Methods. Ethnographic field techniques were used to sample from elders, pueblo members-at-large, activities, events and places. Over 1800 hrs were spent in the field spanning 14 months and five site visits, with the longest at almost 4 weeks. Developing codes for transcribed interviews, field notes, supplementary documents, photographs, videos, and artifacts was carried out during analysis. Categories and ultimately a cognitive map and model were developed which represented aging in Zuni Pueblo in 2000. ^ Findings. Zuni elders are aging in two worlds. Their primary world has been described as a sevenfold universe, a complicated structure with seven planes wherein the middle plane refers to themselves, a synthesis of all the other planes. The increasing influence of the white world has formed a ‘new middle’ out of which everyday aspects of aging are viewed. ^ Implications for nursing/gerontology. Nurses and others in gerontology must recognize that vast differences in worldviews are present between themselves and AI elders regarding health practices, spirituality, eating patterns, family roles, medicine, religion and countless other aspects of life. Their centuries old beliefs and practices drive these differences coupled with a collision with the white world. Making a paradigm shift using an appropriate lens with which to view these differences can only increase our understanding and efficacy in delivering culturally relevant care. ^

Nenhuma ferida fala por si mesma. Sofrimento e estratégias de cura dos imigrantes por meio de práticas de ethnography-based art

Neste ensaio fotográfico, apresento “Woundscapes. Suffering, creativity and bare life”, uma exibição de arte baseada em etnografia, produzida de forma colaborativa por 11 antropólogos e artistas de diferentes países, cujo trabalho se concentra na reprodução de olhares e estereótipos pós-coloniais e de memórias individuais que são ligadas às respetivas dinâmicas diaspóricas e às estratégias de cura dos imigrantes no amplo Mercado terapêutico da Grande Lisboa.

The encyclopaedia of Islam : a dictionary of the geography, ethnography and biography of the Muhammadan peoples /

Mode of access: Internet.

International archives of ethnography.

"Organ der Intern. Gesellschaft für Ethnographie," vol. 18- ; "Organ der Intern. Gesellschaft für Ethnographie und des Reichs-Altertums-Museum in Leiden," vol. -32.

Časopis za zgodovino in narodopisje. Review for history and ethnography.

Historical abstracts. Part B. Twentieth century abstracts

Lectures on ancient ethnography and geography, comprising Greece and her colonies, Epirus, Macedonia, Illyricum, Italy, Gaul, Spain, Britain, the north of Africa, etc.

Mode of access: Internet.

Notes on Northern Africa, the Sahara and Soudan, in relation to the ethnography, languages, history, political and social condition, of the nations of those countries.

Photocopy.

Catalogue of the ivory carvings of the Christian era with examples of Mohammedan art and carvings in bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum,

Preface signed: C.H. Read.

An atoll culture; ethnography of Ifaluk in the central Carolines

Mode of access: Internet.

The impact of methamphetamine in Illinois communities : an ethnography : a report to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority /

"October 15, 2004."

Crania aegyptiaca; or, Observations on Egyptian ethnography, derived from anatomy, history and the monuments.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms [n.d.] (American culture series, Reel 231.3)

Crania Ægyptiaca; or, Observations on Egyptian ethnography, derived from anatomy, history and the munoments. ...

Reprinted from the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 9.

Contributions to the ethnography and philology of the Indian tribes of the Missouri Valley.

Separate, with added t.-p. and table of contents, from Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New series, v. 12.