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Aftertaste: memories of postsocialism

July, 2015 / By Daria Gritsenko

Allegra’s thematic thread on #postsocialism is coming to its end. We hope that the eight delicious specialties Allegra served you […]

July, 2015 / By Costanza Curro

Patterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last

This project was inspired by a curiosity in whether people from the former Soviet states, more than two decades after

In contemporary political anthropology, ‘the state’ is a curious as if object (Navaro-Yashin 2002). It has come to dominate the

July, 2015 / By Magnus Marsden

This piece explores the activities of Afghan merchants in the former Soviet Union especially Tajikistan in Central Asia and Russia

July, 2015 / By Allegra Lab

Every once in a while we have to remind ourselves of the motto that governs Allegra’s operations: our Academic Slow

July, 2015 / By Judith Beyer

Today we re-post our conversation with Judith Beyer from a joint virtual roundtable with Anthropoliteia. In her commentary, Judith answers

July, 2015 / By Daria Gritsenko

Summer of course is a nice time to take vacation and go on a trip, visit new places, admire historical

June, 2015 / By Sonja Trifuljesko

Universities have a long history. Buckets even longer. Nevertheless, perhaps not many times in the past have universities and buckets

June, 2015 / By Priya Swamy

It is the early(ish) stages of my fieldwork among Hindus from Suriname living in the Netherlands. I am reluctantly attending