New publications #PublicationJihad
This week, our #PublicationJihad continues with Allegra’s own currated list of books covering a large spectrum of themes: from the history of international law,…
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The Other Shore by Michael D. Jackson
The Other Shore: Essays on writers and writing. University of California Press, 2012. 205pp. By Michael D. Jackson Anthropologists have long been concerned with…
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‘In the air’ – Discussion with Eeva Berglund, EASA Book Series
Since 1992, the EASA has published its own collection, initially with Routledge and now with BerghahnBooks. Among its most popular titles are ‘Audit Cultures’…
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POLAR, Part 2 – #PublicationJihad!
Today Allegra’s #PublicationJihad continues our collaboration with POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropological Review with Part 2 of their list of publications to be reviewed (Part 1…
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#PublicationJihad!
This week will be Allegra’s first ever #PublicationJihad! What this means is a full week of Spectacular Blogging Activity devoted to one single cause alone:…
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Anthropological Job-hunting (and Gathering): Finding Non-Academic Work (2 of 3)
When looking for work – particularly the non-academic kind – remember that who you know is often as important, if not more important than…
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Painful, stinky & get you HIGH!
“When conducting ethnographic fieldwork among professional rock climbers, participant observation makes climbing shoes as essential as the digital recorder in the everyday field package….
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POLAR-style (PART 1)
Today Allegra is very pleased to share with you a curated list of recent publications by POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropological Review, the flagship…
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The Laboratory as a Space of Intellectual Freedom
Some of our devoted readers may have wondered why we chose to call Allegra a virtual LABORATORY. That (one of) our primary aim(s) is…
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Anthropological Job-hunting (and gathering): Finding Non-Academic Work (1 of 3)
In my last post I expressed my concern that an overemphasis on oblique anthropological theory was doing a disservice to young anthropology PhDs by…
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Allegra CALLING!
Allegra: A virtual Lab of Legal Anthropology is looking for new contributors eager to share some of their research findings or their views on…
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‘War’ by Antonio De Lauri
De Lauri, Antonio, ed., 2013, “War”, Antropologia, Vol. 16, Milan. 135 pp., ISBN 978-88-6705-129-8 Although war and, more broadly, the ‘problem of violence’…
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