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What Kinship Is – And Is Not

While Western political leaders overtly inflame followers by ascribing innate difference to Others, the lucidity and coherence of Marshall Sahlins’ 2013 monograph What Kinship…

On the State. Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992.

As stated on its back cover, in this book the influential French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) investigates the state’s ‘extraordinary power of producing a…

Brexit, Europe and Anthropology: time to say something

Introduction (by Sarah Green) Brexit means trouble, that is for certain; what is less certain is what kind of trouble. Some might sympathise with…

Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship

On 22 March 2016, the Belgian city of Brussels suffered three calculated and co-ordinated terrorist attacks in the name of the so-called Islamic State….

What Kinship Is – And Is Not

To what degree can our biological, genetic and reproductive systems be considered the basis for family relationships? Marshall Sahlins divides his answer to this…

ICPA 2016: 18th (FAKE!) International Conference on Political Anthropology

My heart skips a beat, more than once. Finally, a conference in the one place I wanted to return to since my happy childhood…

Rethinking political agency in the Middle East #project

This week Allegra focuses on an exciting new feature incorporated into our beloved website a while back: namely Projects! What this feature entails are collaborations…

Turning cool kids into outlaws – Legal fictions and the management of heroin abuse in post-reform China

Cool kids. On a rainy afternoon towards the end of my fieldwork in Qilin, southwest China, I sat with one of my informants, Jiao…

‘The soul of the community’: corporate legal personhood in an indigenous settlement fictions

In Argentina, indigenous people have been historically marginalised and rendered invisible (Gordillo & Hirsch 2003). However, over the last couple of decades there has…

Migrant Deaths: Data, Trends and Possible Causes

In a recent article published at Allegra, Ferruccio Pastore addresses some of the problems related to counting migrant deaths in the Mediterranean. Furthermore, while…

‘Every Day is a Copy-And-Paste’: Waithood Among Tunisian Men

This morning I felt that I couldn’t bear this passivity any longer. I was sinking in my red plastic chair without anything to do….

Celebrating Allies – part 3: Are you looking for a ghostwriter?

Today we continue our celebration of the Allies who handle much of the behind-the-scenes work that is needed to keep fan-bu-tastic (=fabulous meets fantastic) content…