We are happy to announce the online publication of the sixth issue of Compaso – Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology. The issue addresses a variety of sociological and anthropological approaches to the ways in which people knowledge is distributed across various social contexts and institutions .
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Issue 2 / 2012: Ways of understanding, misunderstanding and not understanding people
Volume 2, Number 2, December 2012
Research articles
Aleksandra Biernacka / A case of auteur cinema in a changed cultural context: “Funny Games” (1997) and “Funny Games, US” (2007) by Michael Haneke
Brian Campbell / Enacting trust: contract, law and informal economic relationships in a Spanish border enclave in Morocco
Miriam Cihodariu / Narratives as instrumental research and as attempts of fixing meaning. The uses and misuses of the concept of “narratives”
Lucie Cviklová / Advancement of human rights standards for LGBT people through the perspective of international human rights law
Sean O’ Dubhghaill / Reduction and representation: the function(s) of understanding and comparison in, and between, Anthropology and Literature
Andra Letiția Jacob Larionescu / Migrants’ housing in the homeland. A case study of the impact of migration on a rural community: the village of Marginea, Romania
Benjamin Žohar / Misrepresentation of the Bosnian War by Western media
Plainer Zsuzsa / „They took personal data and some pictures, yet they found nothing for us” – misunderstanding and suspicion in a marginal Roma neighborhood from Romania
Review essay
Alina Petra Marinescu / Saleem Sinai – Number one of the 1001 Midnight’s Children. The display of inner and outer dimensions of understanding and not understanding within one of Salman Rushdie’s most read books
Book reviews
Lucia Popa / Book review: Piotrowski, Piotr. (2012) Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe. London: Reaktion Books