May 2015 - Allegra Lab

#EVENTS: The stage is yours!

May, 2015 / By Allegra Lab

The events season is in full bloom with many exciting happenings forthcoming soon! Allegra has, once again, curated a carefully […]

May, 2015 / By Simrat Kang

“The symbolic power of foods…is different from (even if related in some manner to) the tactical and structural power that

This time we are proud to present The Other Side, an enchanting ethnographic film by Mukhtar Shehata and Samuli Schielke.

May, 2015 / By Reetta Toivanen

Today we combine two recent Allegra themes – both very dear to us – by revisiting a jewel from our

May, 2015 / By Daniel Münster

In The Darjeeling Distinction, Sarah Besky provides a highly readable and theoretically ambitious ethnography of tea plantations in West Bengal’s

What does it feel like to do fieldwork? How does one encounter experiences of suffering, trauma – even death – while maintaining

May, 2015 / By Davide Torri

An important book since its first edition, the third edition of Kaldor’s New and Old Wars struggles to keep pace

May, 2015 / By Francesca Piana

“…Here being my Italy – Where memories spring like geysers, Crying at me where I place my feet; Italy which

May, 2015 / By D. S. Farrer

Great dilemmas of selection, inclusion, and exclusion face the editor of an anthology of the anthropology of Islam. The papers

On April 19 I went to see “Lampedusa”, a play by Anders Lustgarten, and found it both enlightening and misleading.