REDUX: Boredom and the “Life Unlived” – Sapiens-Allegra Writing Competition!
Most of our devoted Allies will remember that we started this year with a bang, aka by launching the SAPIENS-Allegra
Making Sense of Violence Against Minority Women: Notes on Skepticism, Discomfort & Privilege in Fieldwork
What is it like to do fieldwork within a marginalized social group? Especially when you – the researcher – hail
A response to McKee and Pritchard’s reviews of ‘One Hour in Paris’
I am grateful to Tamar McKee and Maureen Pritchard for their insightful and critical engagement with One Hour in Paris:
Luanda Taxi – a fieldwork playlist
Conducting ethnographic fieldwork in a hectic, chaotic, and sprawling multimillion metropolis like Luanda presents logistical and epistemological challenges. If one
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
Call for Reviews: Recent Publications on kinship
Allegra’s reviews editor curated for you this list of some of the most interesting recent releases on #kinship. It’s sometimes
Cologne: Why cultural explanations are dangerous for feminism
The sexual assaults that occurred in Cologne on New Year’s Eve will long be remembered in Germany and in Europe
Lessons from a King
For El Señor On January 8 I followed – along with perhaps most of the world’s population connected to the net –
Response to Daniel Münster’s review of ‘The Darjeeling Distinction’
The Darjeeling Distinction, as Daniel Münster notes in his thoughtful review on Allegra Lab, is about both a place and
Mohawk Interruptus
In the online forum Native Appropriations, Dr. Adrienne Keene writes “When you’re invisible in society . . . every representation matters”