Authorship in the post-academic, post-human age
In 1964, when describing the threshold for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio, the US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said that while he couldn’t…
Read MoreIn 1964, when describing the threshold for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio, the US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said that while he couldn’t…
Read MoreThe screen is dark, the music sombre. There are sounds of muffled voices and explosions. The dark screen breaks to reveal blue skies as…
Read MoreThe sun had already set when the night-long live broadcast of a kohoḿbā kankāriya ritual in a Sri Lankan town begins. A larger-than-life image…
Read MoreOn May 20, 2021, Felix Girke, a member of our editorial collective, gave a presentation in the framework of the workshop “Multimodal Digital Publishing”…
Read MoreIn collaboration with the conference organisers, Allegra had reached out to a number of colleagues to submit some impressions in the form of “daily…
Read MoreEthnographic film is blooming Ethnographic film, however loosely defined, is blooming. While to track and map the entire production of ethnographic film appears next-to…
Read More‘I’ve been here before’ – the feeling of the present being firmly rooted in the past can be intense and disorienting. It is difficult…
Read MoreAnand Pandian speaks to Allegra editor Ian M. Cook about his latest book A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (Duke, 2019). Special guests…
Read MoreWelcome to The Corona Diaries from Allegra, first recorded in April 2020 as part of the Corona thematic thread. The diaries, published once a…
Read MoreIntroduction Ariane is an anthropologist and a performer who chose to combine these two disciplines in her professional and personal life. She is now…
Read MoreAre you an anthropologist considering podcasting? Then this post is for you 🙂 Sound is widely accessible, it conveys nuances of emotion, atmosphere and…
Read MoreShooting a Revolution is a smart polyseme that Donatella Della Ratta uses to describe the grim reality of Syria: one shoots to kill and…
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