Allegra Summer break
Allegra is going on holidays from 22 July to 22 August. We’re happy to continue receiving all your suggestions and submissions while on leave,…
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Open Call: #AnthroEducate!
Imagine dozens of tables in a huge hall, with 12-15 children sitting at each. They negotiate with each other, squabble, and make up. They…
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Fires of Gold
As of 2019, Ghana is the country with the largest gold-mining industry in Africa, overtaking South Africa, after two South African gold mining companies…
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Meat Planet
If the proponents of cultured meat are to be believed we might be soon headed towards a future in which bioreactors replace, or at…
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An opportunity for Argentine and Brazilian social sciences?
Nowadays, most people are asking themselves what will happen in the coming months. In this time of COVID-19, it is not just the present…
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The Political Lives of Masks: Citizenship, civility and covering up during the COVID-19 pandemic
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the science of masks has become hotly debated by epidemiologists, public health officials, and the public at large. The…
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World élite? Latvia, national identity and the pandemic
An introduction to somewhere less observed Research on Covid-19 is a hot topic worldwide, and, recently, the Latvian goveernment has also launched its own…
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Genocide Never Sleeps
Genocide Never Sleeps is an in-depth analysis of the inner workings of the contested terrain of international criminal law from an anthropological perspective. Targeting…
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Sentiment, Reason and Law
What if the police were not independent from political interests? What if various citizens and influential figures constantly intervened in officers’ decision-making, influencing the…
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Race-Blind: Rethinking a French-American Conversation
You don’t waste your energy fighting the fever; you must only fight the disease. And the disease is not racism. It is greed and…
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Animal Intimacies
In her book Animal Intimacies Radhika Govindrajan takes us through a series of human-animal relations in India’s Central Himalayas, the Kumaon division in the…
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Contesting Leviathan
In Contesting Leviathan, a reference on both the mythical sea-serpent and Thomas Hobbes’ political philosophy, Les Beldo seeks to provide a multi-faceted view of…
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