Bread grabbed from a half closed door. Nomad subjects in ethnography.
The title expression came to the fore while conducting a research on the representations of hospitality of individuals and families from East Africa in the city of Padua, Italy. The research focused on traditional representations of "unconditional hospitality" prevalent in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eri...
| Publicado en: | Anthropology & Humanism Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 1 - 11 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2025
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