Abstract: Over two decades after its introduction, netnography endures, shaped as an adaptive research practice, a “technological form of life”. In this chapter, we build on this idea of an enduring netnography and expand it by qualifying it as agentic. Agentic netnography is personified through the embodied materiality of Netno, an animist re-search being. This chapter aims to substantiate through the eyes of Netno the notion of agentic netnography concerning its fundamental research operations. This chapter does it first by illustrating the methodological principles inspiring the netnographic research procedures and then by plunging into specific contexts of consumer technoculture investigated through netnography. This manuscript converges on particular practices (i.e., investigation, interaction, immersion) and reveals how these have allowed researchers to achieve a deep cultural understanding of social media phenomena and experiences. The chapter provides a fluid, contemporary perspective on how cultural social media research alters and transforms in unison with evolving technoculture. It also offers a fresh look at how agentic netnography shapes and molds its practices and procedures to form a unique combination that is new and different for each phenomenon. In this capacity, netnography captures meanings that today can be increasingly obscure, elusive, slippery, and hidden in the depths of human interactions through and with technologies.

The aim of this study was to understand the meaning of social capital in relation to type 2 diabetes according to gender, within an urban setting in Colombia, based on a qualitative design for symbolic interactionism. Twenty-four women and 16 men with diabetes, family members, and healthcare personnel participated in six focus groups. A total of 850 codes emerged that comprised a set of 142 codes for ego, alter, and alter ego. Three categories and 20 subcategories were identified for the "coding paradigm design". The meaning differed between men and women. Social ties in social networks, created daily through trust and solidarity for care, were valued differently due to the social experiences and events resulting from self-confidence, self-efficacy for social support, and mainly self-esteem vis-à-vis management and control of the disease. An individual's social resources are reified for the management and care of the disease as a strategy to mitigate health inequalities.

Comprender el significado del capital social de la diabetes tipo 2 según género, dentro un contexto urbano colombiano. Investigación cualitativa del interaccionismo simbólico. 25 mujeres y 16 hombres, diabéticos, familiares, vecinos y personal asistencial participaron en seis grupos focales. Emergieron 850 códigos que se integraron en un set de 142 códigos de códigos para el ego, el alter y alter ego. Tres categorías y veinte subcategorías fueron identificadas para el diseño del "paradigma de la codificación". El significado no es igual para hombres y mujeres. Los vínculos sociales de las redes sociales, creados cotidianamente por la confianza y la solidaridad para el cuidado, son valorados de manera diferente, debido a experiencias y hechos sociales resultantes de la autoconfianza, la autoeficacia para el apoyo social principalmente y, la autoestima frente al manejo y control de la enfermedad. Los recursos sociales de un individuo son reificados para el manejo y cuidado de la enfermedad como estrategia para disminuir las inequidades en salud

Compreender o significado do capital social, diabetes tipo 2 por sexo, um contexto urbano da Colômbia. pesquisa qualitativa do interacionismo simbólico. 25 mulheres e 16 homens, diabéticos, familiares, vizinhos e cuidadores participaram seis grupos focais. 850 códigos se que foram integrados em um conjunto de 142 codes para o ego, o alter e alter ego. Três categorias e vinte subcategorias foram identificados para o projeto de "codificação de paradigma". O significado não é o mesmo para homens e mulheres. Laços sociais das redes sociais criadas diariamente pela confiança e solidariedade são valorizados cuidado diferente, porque as experiências sociais e fatos resultantes da auto-confiança, auto-eficácia e de apoio social, principalmente, auto-gestão e controle em relação a doença. Os recursos sociais de um indivíduo são reificadas para a gestão o cuidado da doença como uma estratégia para reduzir as desigualdades na saúde

Compreender o significado do capital social, diabetes tipo 2 por sexo, um contexto urbano da Colômbia. pesquisa qualitativa do interacionismo simbólico. 25 mulheres e 16 homens, diabéticos, familiares, vizinhos e cuidadores participaram seis grupos focais. 850 códigos se que foram integrados em um conjunto de 142 codes para o ego, o alter e alter ego. Três categorias e vinte subcategorias foram identificados para o projeto de "codificação de paradigma". O significado não é o mesmo para homens e mulheres. Laços sociais das redes sociais criadas diariamente pela confiança e solidariedade são valorizados cuidado diferente, porque as experiências sociais e fatos resultantes da auto-confiança, auto-eficácia e de apoio social, principalmente, auto-gestão e controle em relação a doença. Os recursos sociais de um indivíduo são reificadas para a gestão o cuidado da doença como uma estratégia para reduzir as desigualdades na saúde

The aim of this study was to understand the meaning of social capital in relation to type 2 diabetes according to gender, within an urban setting in Colombia, based on a qualitative design for symbolic interactionism. Twenty-four women and 16 men with diabetes, family members, and healthcare personnel participated in six focus groups. A total of 850 codes emerged that comprised a set of 142 codes for ego, alter, and alter ego. Three categories and 20 subcategories were identified for the "coding paradigm design". The meaning differed between men and women. Social ties in social networks, created daily through trust and solidarity for care, were valued differently due to the social experiences and events resulting from self-confidence, self-efficacy for social support, and mainly self-esteem vis-à-vis management and control of the disease. An individual's social resources are reified for the management and care of the disease as a strategy to mitigate health inequalities.

Comprender el significado del capital social de la diabetes tipo 2 según género, dentro un contexto urbano colombiano. Investigación cualitativa del interaccionismo simbólico. 25 mujeres y 16 hombres, diabéticos, familiares, vecinos y personal asistencial participaron en seis grupos focales. Emergieron 850 códigos que se integraron en un set de 142 códigos de códigos para el ego, el alter y alter ego. Tres categorías y veinte subcategorías fueron identificadas para el diseño del "paradigma de la codificación". El significado no es igual para hombres y mujeres. Los vínculos sociales de las redes sociales, creados cotidianamente por la confianza y la solidaridad para el cuidado, son valorados de manera diferente, debido a experiencias y hechos sociales resultantes de la autoconfianza, la autoeficacia para el apoyo social principalmente y, la autoestima frente al manejo y control de la enfermedad. Los recursos sociales de un individuo son reificados para el manejo y cuidado de la enfermedad como estrategia para disminuir las inequidades en salud

La relation entre "l'Etat et l'anthropologie", particulièrement s'agissant de son importance pour le développement de la recherche anthropologique au Michoacán, peut être comprise à travers une analyse du Projet Tarasque, qui effectivement a inclus divers épisodes de travail de terrain et distincts propos académiques et politiques. Ces projets, incluant ceux de Sáenz à Carapan, Swadesh à Paracho, Beals à Cherán et Foster à Tzintzuntzan, ont représenté une convergence produite par les intérêts des gouvernements de Mexico et Washington. Une convergence surgie, sans aucun doute, des circonstances particulières de cette époque, c'est-à-dire de la fin de la Grande Dépression et de la période de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Ces travaux ont été réalisés grâce au soutien économique et logistique substantiel provenant de nombreuses agences gouvernementales, tant mexicaines comme nord-américaines. En ce sens, les anthropologues ayant participé au Projet Tarasque n'ont pas été de simples « intermédiaires intellectuels », sinon des « intermédiaires institutionnels », dans leur rôle d'agents de leurs gouvernements respectifs.

The relation between "the State and anthropology", especially with regards its relevance to the development of anthropological work in Michoacán, can be understood through an analysis of the Tarasco Project, one that comprised distinct periods of fieldwork and distinct academic and political proposals. Those projects -including Sáenz' work in Carapan, Swadesh in Paracho, Beals in Cherán and Foster in Tzintzuntzan- represented a convergence produced by the interests of the governments of Mexico and the United States; one that emerged, undoubtedly, from the special circumstances of the time; i.e., the end of the Great Depression and the period of World War II. Those studies were conducted thanks to substantial economic and logistical support provided by several governmental agencies in both Mexico and the U.S. In that context, the anthropologists who participated in the Tarasco Project were not simple "intellectual intermediaries" but, rather, " institutional intermediaries" who fulfilled roles as agents of their respective governments.

La relación entre "el Estado y la antropología", particularmente en cuanto a su relevancia para el desarrollo del trabajo antropológico en Michoacán, puede ser entendida mediante un análisis del ProyectoTarasco, que efectivamente incluyó distintos episodios de trabajo de campo y distintos propósitos académicos y políticos. Estos proyectos -incluyendo los de Sáenz en Carapan, Swadesh en Paracho, Beals en Cherán y Foster enTzintzuntzan- representaron una convergencia producto de los intereses de los gobiernos de México y Estados Unidos; una convergencia surgida, sin duda, de las circunstancias especiales de esa época, es decir, fines de la Gran Depresión y el periodo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Estos trabajos se realizaron gracias al sustancial apoyo económico y logístico proveído por numerosas agencias gubernamentales, tanto en México, como en Estados Unidos. En este sentido, los antropólogos que participaron en el ProyectoTarasco no fueron simples "intermediarios intelectuales", sino "intermediarios institucionales en su papel de agentes de sus respectivos gobiernos.

Due to current spreading of chemoresistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum malaria control must incorporate vector control programmes. Due to well known constraints house sprayings cannot be performed as before. Personal protection can be developed and a large scale use of insecticide treated bed-nets appeared to be very useful to reduce man-vector contact in Asia, South America and West and East Africa. No trial has done is forest Central Africa where transmission is permanent. We performed such a trial in the southern part of Cameroon (using deltamethrin, at 25mg/m*) and obtained similar data to those observed in the Gambia Burkina Faso and Tanzania with a noteworthy reduction of both transmission and high parasitaemia of P. falciparum (respectively 78% and 75%) meaning a drop of malaria morbidity.

Os autores fazem uma revisão da técnica cirúrgica empregada para o tratamento de aneurismas da aorta ascendente associados a lesões da valva aórtica. Apresentam resultados obtidos com 11 (onze) paciente operados pela técnica de BENTALL e DE BONO, com enxerto tubular valvulado aberto de pericárdio bovino IMC, sem mortalidade devida à técnica ou ao enxerto utilizado. Desses pacientes, 8 eram do sexo masculino, com idade variando entre 31 e 65 anos, média de 50 anos; 3 eram do sexo feminino, com idade entre 20 e 53 anos, média de 38 anos. Duas cirurgias foram realizadas, em regime de urgência, e 9 de emergência. O tubo de pericárdio bovino utilizado foi de nº 23 em 1 caso, nº 25 em 2, nº 29 em 6 e nº 31 em 2 casos. Dois pacientes tiveram lesão mitral associada com troca valvar (prótese biológica IMC). Um paciente necessitou de ponte de veia safena para coronária direita, por dissecção do óstio coronário. O diagnóstico histopatológico mostrou: degeneração mixomatosa em 4 casos, fibrose em 4 casos, doença reumática cicatrizada em 2 casos e pancardite em apenas 1 caso. Após discorrerem sobre dificuldades e complicações do método, concluem que a técnica utilizada é a de escolha no tratamento da referida patologia e que o tubo valvulado de pericárdio bovino facilita o ato cirúrgico, por sua alta flexibilidade e por ser altamente hemostático, não necessitando de medidas pré-coagulativas.

The authors make a revision in the techniques for aortic aneurysm surgery with aortic valve lesion. They shown the results with 11 patients operated by BENTALL and DE BONO techniques with an open bovine pericardium IMC tubular and valvular graft without dead due to technic or due to the graft utilized. 8 patients, were male, age between 31-65 years old (mean 50) 3 were female, age between 20-53 (mean 38); two surgeries were made in urgency and 9 in emergency. Two patients have associated mitral lesion associated with valvar change by IMC biological prosthesis. Just one patient needed a saphenous vein graft to right coronary artery because there was lesion in its ostium. The histopatologic showed mixomatosis degeneration in 4 cases, fibroses in 4, reumatic disease in 2, and pancarditis in 1. After discourse about the methods complications and difficulties, we deduced that the thecnique employed is the choice from the treatment of this disease and pericardium valvar bovine graft turns the surgery more easy because it is flexible and hemostatic and doesn't need an hemostatic preparation before implantation.