No. 5 (2019): Ethnography. Practices, Theories, Experiences

This volume is dedicated to Professor Wojciech Bęben, a scholar of Oceania and Australian peoples who spent nearly 30 years conducting fieldwork among these communities. The volume includes his previously unpublished manuscript, which provides a comparative analysis of the indigenous cultures of Australia and Oceania. 

The volume includes articles on the concept of 'apus' in the beliefs of the Q'eros Indians of Peru, the health of children and adolescents in Poland, and the linguistic-cultural identity of the Ticino people of Switzerland. It also includes methodological articles on doing anthropology "at home" and the role of objects in creating memory narratives. 

We also recommend to our readers the article by the Brazilian anthropologist and ethnozoologist Felipe Vander Velden, Things that white men have in great quantity: Chickens and other exotic birds among the Karitiana (Rondônia, Brazilian Amazon), in which the author discusses the social perceptions and practices of the Karitiana Indians, focusing on one element of their everyday life and environment: the domestic chicken.

Keywords: chicken, Karitiana, Amazon, husbandry, ethnoornithology, Quechua, Andean ontology, apus, Q’eros, shamanism, anthropology of nature, indigenous people, material culture, Australia, New Guinea, Oceania, health, healthy food, electronic media, adolescences, teenagers, children,Turner syndrome, teenagers, biomedicine, medicalization, bodily normativity, Ticino, linguistic and cultural identity, anthropology of language policy, anthropology at home, distance, identity, Otherness, Europeanness, Contem- porary Paganism, materiality, narrative objects, reminiscent narratives, Soviet Army,epistemology, culture, perspectivism, Ojibway, Ontario, Canada, first research, impressions