Dossier no. 4: Ethnography of practices and institutions in the posmodern epoch

Abstract

This Dossier, entitled, “ethnography of practices and institutions in the posmodern epoch”, is composed of four studies exploring processes of change in practices and institutions previously well defined and demarcated with qualifications like “modern” and “tradicional” but, now, embodied as hybrid or alternative. These practices and institutions studied in particular localities capture changes with continuities in cosmological orientations, gender and reproduction, kinship, and in the differentiation of publics; all reflecting much more global articulations. As such, they are an integral part of the anthropological thematic though cast in a critical epochal transition.