The Deportation Conundrum – REDUX #BORDERS
Today we re-visit a post on the deportation conundrum by Barak Kalir. The post was first published in the spring […]
Afghan Wedding Playlist: Men and women’s sides!
My fieldwork in Afghanistan in 2007 involved a substantial amount of time spent at wedding parties. It was rare to
Essay One-Shots
REDUX: ARTIFACTS AND ALLEGIANCES: HOW MUSEUMS PUT THE NATION AND THE WORLD ON DISPLAY
You just have to walk down the street in any immigrant neighborhood—Washington Heights in New York City, Kreuzberg in Berlin,
REDUX: Journeys within and beyond the City – Part 1
“That’ll be $1.09.” I hand over the last two dollars of my stipend in exchange for my favorite kind of
Scenes of Gentrification
Scene One: London Soho and Bloomsbury I used to love London for its Indian and Thai vegan restaurants, vibrant queer
Gentrification, diversification & events – let’s take it SLOW!
Ever so often we find it indispensable to remind ourselves & everyone else that one of Allegra’s guiding mottos is
THE ANTHROPOLOGIST!
IT’S WORLD ANTHROPOLOGY DAY!!! (Admit it, this one calls for all capital lettering.) And we are very pleased to celebrate
Dreaming of the Inevitable – A Lecture by Samuli Schielke
Today we are pleased to share this talk by our ‘Allie’ Samuli Schielke. The talk is titled ‘Dreaming of the Inevitable: How Money,
Up the Anthropologist – Anthropology Day, Jukebox, Migration & Breakfast
Hello everyone – it’s yet another glorious Allegra week! Fine, admittedly the weather in some parts of the world (aka
From Crisis to the University of Utopia
We conclude this dark thematic week on University Crisis with our insistence to be also ‘tongue in cheek’. We remind