Snapshots of British Islam (1) – Of pink Chador and black Niqabs
These fieldnotes are part of an on-going research on the Islamic legal culture of England. This research, which I started […]
Conversation One-Shots
MEET our contributor: Kaius Tuori
ALLEGRA:Â So, Kaius Tuori, we heard that you recently received a new position – Congratulations! Would you mind telling just what
Open Access, Wiki-PR and Nietzsche (courtesy of Kelly Grotke)
This particular piece of slow food for thought on a very current theme came via our ‘friends’ at Facebook –
CANADA calling: Posts & Papers
Sometimes things arrive in hordes – or then our eyes have merely been selective lately! Whatever the case, all the
From ‘REAL’ Reality to ‘UN’ Reality (Part 2/5)
In UN treaty body proceedings members of the bodies regularly mention – after they are done with elaborate rounds of
Money Machine
If, like us, you find yourself lost in translation each time you are confronted with the world of finance, why
Susan Bibler Coutin on the future of political and legal anthropology
Susan Bibler Coutin is the president of the Association of Political and Legal Anthropology. A few weeks before the annual
Note One-Shots
‘Good’ celebrity: more harm than good?
A while back our contributor Antonio de Lauri drew our attention on the myth of the ‘good poor’ and how we may have
(Slow) Food for Thoughts: Ingold on Anthropology, Art and Self-Transformation
Tim Ingold has been a great source of inspiration to us recently, adding many ‘food for thoughts’ to ALLEGRA’s slow
Arriving at the UN
This is finally it! I unlock my bike, hop on and start making my way down the hill in the