Degree: Master of Arts Abstract: This study explores the little-examined dimensions of a highly influential Buddhist organization, Fo Guang Shan (佛光山), which was founded in Taiwan and established more than 200 branches on all five continents. Through ethnographic research focusing on Buddhist materi...

Ancient buildings face today normative, environmental and patrimonial issues which foster their renovation and engage a great diversity of actors. This multiplicity initiates a debate around knowledge, professional worlds and attachments which are woven around existing buildings. This thesis delves...

Between November 2011 and November 2012, the University of Nantes (Centre nantais de sociologie, EA 3260) was responsible for a research project on the inventory of traditional games in France, at the request of the Department of Research and Scientific Policy Steering of the Ministry of Culture and...

We assess the accuracy and usefulness of machine-learning valuations in illiquid real asset markets. We apply neural networks to data on one million painting auctions to price artworks using non-visual and visual characteristics. Our out-of-sample automated valuations predict auction prices dramatic...

Since a new labour activity appears —employment or occupation— until it comes to be regarded as a profession, there are many difficulties this has to overcome. In this text we focus our interest in analyzing the difficulties on one labour activity that appeared in the last decades of the twentieth c...

This thesis concerns an instrument for the clinical treatment of social vulnerability known as the “Mental Health and Social Vulnerability Crossover Tool”. Based at the Ain Psychiatric Hospital, this instrument, set up under the framework of government policy on access to prevention and health care...

Since an employment activity — employment or occupation — appears until it is considered to be a profession, many difficulties have to be overcome. In this text, we focus our interest in analysing the difficulties that exist in one of the activities that emerged in the last decades of the 20th centu...

In recent years has emerged and important set of studies tending to explore the authoritarian processes in the period 1960-1970 in the Southern Cone. In that wide map of researches and prospects we seek to address a further dimension, certainly unknown about Paraguay: spaces and forms of political s...

In this seventh and eighth issues of the LEPAARQ Cadernos we brought together eight papers presented at the Practical Day of Justice and Cultural Diversity (3th edition), promoted by the Federal University of Peoples (UFPEL), Institute of Human Sciences (ICH/UFPEL), Institute of Sociology and Policy...

Studies of social appropriation of science and technology (SAS&T) in Colombia identify a deficit model of the relationship between science and public, characterized by a hierarchical and unidirectional communication. They show, also, the feminization of the practices of traditional mediators, such a...

The upheavals of 2011 and subsequent developments in the MENA region have had substantial effects on universities and research centers within Arab world and in other neighboring countries where similar developments are taking shape (security issues, stricter political control/lesser levels of politi...

A photograph of Franz Boas posing in a Kwakiutl Ceremonial Dance and a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights greets visitors in Sherry Beth Ortner’s office in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Professor Sherry Ortner received her Ph.D. fr...

Discourses concerned with the sensorially embodied subject have emerged since the 1990s in various disciplines including history, anthropology, sociology, geography, film studies and literary studies. The purpose of this article is to bring the conversation regarding audiences’ embodied engagement i...

First paragraph: It is very difficult for me to write this tribute to Evan. It is easy to find wonderful things to say about his life and work, but it still does not seem possible or right that someone as young, vital, and excep­tional should no longer be with us. I will say that I had the great...

First paragraphs: In the early spring of 2020, the Syracuse University community was dealt a sudden and painful blow with the loss of Dr. Evan Weissman. It is to his vibrant memory that this special issue of the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development is dedicated. What fo...

The pandemic placed extraordinary demands on agricultural producers and created unexpected challenges for southern Missouri farmers, and pushed the University of Missouri Extension (MUE) to implement new and innovative approaches to help farmers persevere through the crisis. In surveys and reports,...

This study aimed to investigate social and cultural factors affecting students’ attitudes toward violence against women. This study was conducted using a survey method among 400 male students of public universities in Mazandaran province who were selected based on stratified probabilistic sampling m...

Sociologist Michael M. Cernea, after a successful professional career in Romania, his native country, continued his work at the World Bank, in Washington, starting in 1974. He founded the department of sociology and influenced the perspective on social security within the Bank. Cernea was awarded th...

It’s been a long time since academic discussions about research and teaching were part of the board meetings of the department of Anthropology and Sociology of the University of Amsterdam. Most of our meetings today deal with administrative problems only. Sometimes these departmental meetings are fo...

The growth of health disparities in the United States, particularly those associated with diet-related diseases, has motivated a reconvergence of the public health and planning disciplines to address this shared challenge. However, the dynamics and mechanisms through which public health and planning...

In this interview taken in May 2012 at New York University, André Lepecki offers a unique perspective on the development of Performance Studies at NYU. Being in fact the only current member of the department who has been first a Master and a PhD student, and later a professor in the same department,...

Transdisciplinary research, involving scholars and practitioners from a variety of fields, disciplines, and experiences, helps identify and explore the dynamic, multidimensional intersections among food systems challenges. While a valuable practice for exploring the food system in a meaningful way,...

Full text of this issue's editorial: In this issue that completes our sixth volume, we present several papers on short supply chains: food hubs, farm-to-grocers, farmers markets, local grains (in Ethiopia), and, interestingly, two different takes on diversification. It is also worth noting that in...

First paragraph: In Regulation by Proxy: How the USDA Relies on Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Intermediaries to Oversee Organic Food in the U.S., Dr. David P. Carter, assistant professor of political science at the Uni­versity of Utah, provides a comprehensive analysis of organic food regulat...