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“When conducting ethnographic fieldwork among professional rock climbers, participant observation makes climbing shoes as essential as the digital recorder in the everyday field package….
Read More“When conducting ethnographic fieldwork among professional rock climbers, participant observation makes climbing shoes as essential as the digital recorder in the everyday field package….
Read MoreToday Allegra is very pleased to share with you a curated list of recent publications by POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropological Review, the flagship…
Read MoreSome of our devoted readers may have wondered why we chose to call Allegra a virtual LABORATORY. That (one of) our primary aim(s) is…
Read MoreIn my last post I expressed my concern that an overemphasis on oblique anthropological theory was doing a disservice to young anthropology PhDs by…
Read MoreAllegra: A virtual Lab of Legal Anthropology is looking for new contributors eager to share some of their research findings or their views on…
Read MoreDe Lauri, Antonio, ed., 2013, “War”, Antropologia, Vol. 16, Milan. 135 pp., ISBN 978-88-6705-129-8 Although war and, more broadly, the ‘problem of violence’…
Read MoreWhen I introduce myself as an historian, I am usually met with any one of a number of different reactions. There is the enthusiastic…
Read MoreAs is unclear to no one who has been following our posts recently, one of the main ideas for Allegra is to find creative…
Read MoreFor almost a month Allegra has been exploring different ways to fill ‘Dead Space’ by showcasing the seminar Anthropological Knots, an experiment that culminated…
Read MoreIn January Allegra has made repeated ‘noise’ over an event titled Anthropological Knots. Prior to the event we shared all of its details in…
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