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Towards an Anthropology of Coups

When is a coup a coup? Reflections on the anthropological study of ‘coups’ There have been more than 200 coups in 95 countries over…

Digital Divisions

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic the optimism of the early days of the world wide web appears to have completely abated. The…

Dying to Eat

Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife (2018), edited by Candi K. Cann, is an interdisciplinary study that cuts across…

Me, Not You

In Me, Not You, Alison Phipps uses the #MeToo Movement as a backdrop to her work to illustrate how privileged white women using mainstream…

Inviting disasters

One particularly warm morning in September 2020, I am looking at photographs and videos in the media depicting the aftermath of medicane (Mediterranean hurricane)…

How does/did Modi do it? The significance of ‘decisionism’

An introductory note: In the short space of time that has elapsed since I first drafted this essay – in the last week of…

Anglo-American hegemony in contemporary anthropology: Some personal dilemmas

Disclaimer: Over the last few days, I have had a writing episode. Nothing had come out of my brain for months. I was teaching…

Animal Displacement from Syria: A Story Yet to be Written

During the Syrian war, which has now raged for a decade, the attention of scholars, media commentators and activists has primarily focused on human…

The Kiss of Death

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage many places in the world, it is hard to imagine a book that is more timely or…

Anthropology for Radical Optimism

At Allegra, we strive to find alternative modes of expression, new ways of working, collaborating, knowing and inquiring. Ultimately, we seek different ways…

Animal Intimacies

The creative disentanglement of human-animal relationships in Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas by Radhika Govindrajan is an important addition to the…

An Intellectual Odyssey. The Case of Legal Pluralism

When: 29 January 2021 / 2-3.30 pm CET Link: https://zoom.us/j/93210372616pwd=dTZZ… ID: 93210372616 Password: 4JzWZ6 Abstract Sally Merry was an active participant in the work…