Aftertaste: memories of postsocialism
Allegra’s thematic thread on #postsocialism is coming to its end. We hope that the eight delicious specialties Allegra served you over the past two…
Read MoreAllegra’s thematic thread on #postsocialism is coming to its end. We hope that the eight delicious specialties Allegra served you over the past two…
Read MorePatterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last few decades, the ways…
Read MoreThis project was inspired by a curiosity in whether people from the former Soviet states, more than two decades after the collapse of the…
Read MoreIn contemporary political anthropology, ‘the state’ is a curious as if object (Navaro-Yashin 2002). It has come to dominate the sub-discipline since the 1990s….
Read MoreThis piece explores the activities of Afghan merchants in the former Soviet Union especially Tajikistan in Central Asia and Russia and Ukraine. It brings…
Read MoreWhat is 19cm high, 20cm wide, weighs only 680grams but carries a President? Right – it’s the Russian Bear! And what is flying high…
Read MoreEvery once in a while we have to remind ourselves of the motto that governs Allegra’s operations: our Academic Slow Food Manifesto. What can we…
Read MoreToday we re-post our conversation with Judith Beyer from a joint virtual roundtable with Anthropoliteia. In her commentary, Judith answers the question: “What has…
Read MoreYesterday we opened the AVMoFA’s first summer exhibition – Die SommerWende – and today we are very pleased to meet the artist, Axel Schön,…
Read MoreSummer of course is a nice time to take vacation and go on a trip, visit new places, admire historical sights, explore local cuisine,…
Read MoreProfessor Tim Ingold from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, gave a lecture at the University of Konstanz, Germany on June 17, 2015. Ingold was…
Read MoreJuly 2nd 2015, it is 4.30pm and the temperature is touching 40’c. I am standing in a queue of some twenty-five people outside Ethniki…
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