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
The Good, the Bad & the Whatnot: AAA 2014
What do you know: almost as soon as the AAA 2014 began, it came to its end. After one last
Tunisia: c’è mai stata una primavera araba?
Sono passati più di tre anni da quando, dalla Tunisia, sono partite le prime rivolte [1] che hanno sovvertito molti
Conversation One-Shots
Being a Resilient Community: An Interview with Shahida Zubair
Milan. A few meters from Duomo’s Square. Beginning of October. We are under the “Galleria” waiting for Shahida Zubair and