» New issue: Ways of understanding, misunderstanding and not understanding people Compaso

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