New Allegra week: #Boredom, Laughter – and a few farts!
And what do you know – it is AGAIN time for a new Allegra week! Where does the time go, despite of our determination…
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And what do you know – it is AGAIN time for a new Allegra week! Where does the time go, despite of our determination…
Read MoreTo conclude this week we wish to highlight the hard work of one more Allie – namely Marie-Louise Karttunen. She has been with us…
Read MoreToday we continue our celebration of the Allies who handle much of the behind-the-scenes work that is needed to keep fan-bu-tastic (=fabulous meets fantastic) content…
Read MoreYesterday we highlighted one important development that took place for the Allegra team in March of 2014, namely that we were joined by Ninnu…
Read MoreOver the past few weeks, Allegra has been deeply engaged with a theme that is both topical and urgent: human smuggling. Close observers may…
Read MoreOn April 30 and May 1, 2015 fourteen anthropologists from seven countries and thirteen universities and research institutions came together on the campus of…
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2C4D-nTUS8 The relationship of anthropology and human rights has by now been aptly illustrated: over the past decades we have moved from ‘engagement’ to…
Read MoreYesterday I took my two children, aged 4 and 7, to the doctor. Both had been ill for the past week; the older one…
Read MoreToday we re-visit a post on the deportation conundrum by Barak Kalir. The post was first published in the spring of 2014 as a…
Read MoreMy fieldwork in Afghanistan in 2007 involved a substantial amount of time spent at wedding parties. It was rare to spend a week without…
Read MoreYou just have to walk down the street in any immigrant neighborhood—Washington Heights in New York City, Kreuzberg in Berlin, or the Bijlmer in…
Read More“That’ll be $1.09.” I hand over the last two dollars of my stipend in exchange for my favorite kind of cookie, a gingersnap, while…
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