#EVENTS: The stage is yours!
The events season is in full bloom with many exciting happenings forthcoming soon! Allegra has, once again, curated a carefully selected list of conferences,…
Read MoreThe events season is in full bloom with many exciting happenings forthcoming soon! Allegra has, once again, curated a carefully selected list of conferences,…
Read More“The symbolic power of foods…is different from (even if related in some manner to) the tactical and structural power that sets the outermost terms…
Read MoreThis time we are proud to present The Other Side, an enchanting ethnographic film by Mukhtar Shehata and Samuli Schielke. The Other Side tells…
Read MoreToday we combine two recent Allegra themes – both very dear to us – by revisiting a jewel from our archives: Reetta Toivanen on…
Read MoreIn The Darjeeling Distinction, Sarah Besky provides a highly readable and theoretically ambitious ethnography of tea plantations in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district. Besky critically…
Read MoreWhat does it feel like to do fieldwork? How does one encounter experiences of suffering, trauma – even death – while maintaining the desired degree of…
Read MoreAn important book since its first edition, the third edition of Kaldor’s New and Old Wars struggles to keep pace with the most recent…
Read More“…Here being my Italy – Where memories spring like geysers, Crying at me where I place my feet; Italy which receives me with benignity…
Read MoreGreat dilemmas of selection, inclusion, and exclusion face the editor of an anthology of the anthropology of Islam. The papers selected for this volume…
Read MoreOn April 19 I went to see “Lampedusa”, a play by Anders Lustgarten, and found it both enlightening and misleading. Enlightening because it strives…
Read MoreSocial scientists have repeatedly looked at the institution of marriage, and at the pivotal role it plays in many societies’ production and reproduction. In…
Read MoreWarning: Spoilers ahead. Do not read if you are planning to see Avengers: Age of Ultron. This post comes in the aftermath of the…
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