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The power of interdisciplinary research methods is based on the ability to abstract from the specific details of the phenomena on which it is discussed and create general postulates valid for all particular objects of study through an epistemic synthesis. This synthesis (as is the case of this issue) sometimes emanates from a concept that, used in different instances, represents phenomena of a very plural nature. Thus, the common thread of the works in the dossier of this issue is (as the guest editors comment) the concept of mission as itineraries, movements and material culture.