If Meat Could Tell Stories: A Tale of Assam during Coronavirus
I can smell it, someone is cooking chicken, I screamed and ran to my sister. I think it is the neighbours. Let us call…
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Shaheen Bagh and the Force of Foundation
February 2020. The pedestrian overpass is covered in banners. Crossing its elevated walkway, only flashes of the sky can be glimpsed through the hanging…
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Tears and Dreams of a Martyr
“When my father went, he knew he let me in safe hands. It means that instead of one hand, I have a million hands;…
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Research ethics, violated
Recently on a scholar’s email listserv dealing with Myanmar (Burma) issues, I learned that at some universities in Australia, Singapore, and beyond, scholars intent…
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Slow. the. fuck. down.
Do you remember what an ordinary day in your life looked like last autumn? Back when Corona was just a below average beer and…
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Brave New Normal World
When politicians begin to speak of a post-corona “new normality”, what does that imply? And why should we be concerned? The spread of the…
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The Corona Diaries
Welcome to The Corona Diaries from Allegra, first recorded in April 2020 as part of the Corona thematic thread. The diaries, published once a…
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Un/boxing Fulfillment: A Field Guide to Logistical Worlds
In the classic origin tale of “The Box” and its seductions, Pandora is driven by curiosity—a distinctly feminized will to knowledge—to unleash chaos on…
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Welcome to Roadsides
The side of a road is a good place for ethnography, we think. One of us owns a field next to a country road….
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“On the Fluid Mosaic”: Rodell Warner
Introduction I met Rodell Warner in Trinidad while he was collaborating at Alice Yard art residency in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies and then…
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Webinar Series in honour of Sally Engle Merry (1944-2020)
From 11 Decembre 2020 to 28 May 2021 Co-organised by Allegra Lab and EASA LawNet. This series of online talks features presentations that examine…
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What types of anthropology do we publish at Allegra? Categories Contributors to Allegra can submit their work under three broad categories: THEMATIC THREADS –…
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