Introducing Allegra’s New Editorial Assistant for Reviews and Publications: Rosie Gant!
The Allegra Reviews Team is expanding. Meet Rosie Gant, MA student at the University of Konstanz in Germany, who is joining the reviews team…
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Help ALLEGRA get (even) better!
By now it should come as surprise to no one that we are working VERY hard to make Allegra everyone’s favorite Anthroblog! Since we…
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This week at Allegra: Kurdistan & The Kurdish Diaspora!
This week Allegra will focus on Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. We will start with a conversation with Latif Tas who has recently published…
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Never Naked Eyes
Is fieldwork a pair of contact lenses or eye surgery – and what are eyes anyway? I was in Lebanon for entirely personal reasons….
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#BODY, #FOOD & Then Some!
After a few weeks of upmost seriousness – namely our thematic weeks on Sustainable Development, Afghan Elections and University Crisis – this week we take…
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‘TOP 10’ – ALLIE turns 1!
How about that – this is the week when Allegra turns 1! We’ve made mental notes of this week’s approach for quite some time,…
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Bombings, Censorship and Legos – Allegra’s week in LA NEWSLETTER!
Every once in a while we remind everyone – including ourselves – that oh right, there continually exists the thing called our NEWSLETTER! Yes,…
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Perfect Commodity: #HAPPY(-Meal) – Allie turns 1!
As global news feeds are increasingly dominated by gruesome imagery of Gaza bombings and more recently, ISIS violence in Iraq, it seems difficult to grasp…
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Geographies of Culture(s)
As the European elections were taking place, with their horrific results in Greece, France, and the United Kingdom (to cite just a few), I…
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#CHILL – with La Newsletter!
As most of Allegra’s friends likely know by now, the action on our humble website is merely a fraction of the frenzied energy that…
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Time to #CHILL!
MAN – it sure has been an active fortnight with first #anthroislam and then #body – we find our heads still spinning, and understand…
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The Unshamenedness of Unshavedness
Recently, the topic of women’s body hair has triggered discussion in the social media. You may remember that Allegra featured the story of the…
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