Crime, crises and a competition
You know us: we do not want to miss a single opportunity to publicise hot and exciting events on the anthropological calendar. And because…
Read MoreYou know us: we do not want to miss a single opportunity to publicise hot and exciting events on the anthropological calendar. And because…
Read MoreAllegra’s reviews editor curated for you this list of some of the most interesting recent releases on #kinship. It’s sometimes good to go back…
Read MoreThe sexual assaults that occurred in Cologne on New Year’s Eve will long be remembered in Germany and in Europe more broadly. What a…
Read MoreFor El Señor On January 8 I followed – along with perhaps most of the world’s population connected to the net – the coverage of the…
Read MoreThe Darjeeling Distinction, as Daniel Münster notes in his thoughtful review on Allegra Lab, is about both a place and a product. Darjeeling is…
Read MoreIn the online forum Native Appropriations, Dr. Adrienne Keene writes “When you’re invisible in society . . . every representation matters” (Keene 2015). Keene’s need to…
Read MoreHow can we conceive of the contemporary relationship between race, poverty, and bureaucracy? Smadar Lavie’s latest publication, an account of her experience as a…
Read MoreThe current humanitarian crisis is not only a flux of events that have been occurring recently, despite the impression created by the latest media…
Read MoreRecently, a petition written by Turkish academics has circulated online, demanding an end to the Turkish government’s attacks on the Kurdish provinces of the…
Read MoreZachary Oberfield’s work Becoming Bureaucrats (2014) provides the academic community with a glimpse into the making of police officers and welfare caseworkers in the…
Read More‘Statelessness’ is a legal status denoting lack of any nationality, a status whereby the otherwise normal link between an individual and a state is…
Read MoreThere was a time when universities were modelled after churches. Today their designs echo temples of different kinds – namely corporate headquarters. In light…
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