#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 […]
Brazilian Food. Race, Class and Identity in Regional Cuisines
“The symbolic power of foods…is different from (even if related in some manner to) the tactical and structural power that
‘The Other Side’ – Attempted suicide, impossible love and (un)crossed boundaries
This time we are proud to present The Other Side, an enchanting ethnographic film by Mukhtar Shehata and Samuli Schielke.
REDUX: #Fieldwork with children
Today we combine two recent Allegra themes – both very dear to us – by revisiting a jewel from our
The Darjeeling Distinction. Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India.
In The Darjeeling Distinction, Sarah Besky provides a highly readable and theoretically ambitious ethnography of tea plantations in West Bengal’s
Fieldnote One-Shots
Beyond Fieldwork: emotions, facial ‘disfigurement’ and a PhD #Fieldnotes
What does it feel like to do fieldwork? How does one encounter experiences of suffering, trauma – even death – while maintaining
New and Old Wars. Organized Violence in a Global Era.
An important book since its first edition, the third edition of Kaldor’s New and Old Wars struggles to keep pace
A hundred years apart: An intimate history of Italian migration to the US
“…Here being my Italy – Where memories spring like geysers, Crying at me where I place my feet; Italy which
The Anthropology of Islam Reader
Great dilemmas of selection, inclusion, and exclusion face the editor of an anthology of the anthropology of Islam. The papers
Why the differences between Lampedusa (the place) and Lampedusa (the play) matter
On April 19 I went to see “Lampedusa”, a play by Anders Lustgarten, and found it both enlightening and misleading.