Leipzig 100 Years: Commentary on the “future of anthropology”
My commentary takes up the following questions: What are the theoretical, methodological and pragmatic challenges for an anthropology of the […]
Anthropology: dialogue with the other
In July 2009, the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Education Outreach Programme launched an International Anthropology Cartoon Contest. The aims of the
One-Shots Thematic thread
Gemeinsam Forschen. Die Ethnologie als ‘Travelling Model’ der Forschungspraxis und Theoriebildung
The following paper [in German] was presented during the symposium ‘The Future of German Anthropology’ at the University of Leipzig, November 2014.
To be or not to be #CHARLIE – IS that the question?
Over the past week ‘the world’ has been in shock over the murders of the Charlie Hebdo journalists – or has
Introducing Allegra’s New Editorial Assistant for Reviews and Publications: Rosie Gant!
The Allegra Reviews Team is expanding. Meet Rosie Gant, MA student at the University of Konstanz in Germany, who is
Die Geburt der Ethnologie aus dem Geist der Tragödie
The following paper [in German] was presented during the symposium ‘The Future of German Anthropology’ on 7 November 2014 at the University of
100 years of (socio-cultural) anthropology in Leipzig – An introduction
The institute of anthropology was founded in November 1914 as “Sächsische Forschungsinstitut für Völkerkunde” (Saxonian Research Institute for Ethnology). It
Anthropology and the Persistence of Universal Europe: Translation as a Key Term
The following paper [in German] was presented during the symposium ‘The Future of German Anthropology’ on 7 November 2014 at the
Bourgeois Knowledge
Young man: Hey, what’s he talking about? Old man: The professor is discussing ideas of justice and humanity in the
On “Patient Zero” and other metaphors of the Ebola epidemic
On 28th of December 2013, Emile, a two-year-old child who lived with his family in a small Guinean village near