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Physical and Metaphorical Journeys through Fieldnotes

This week, we’re sharing some of our recently-acquired fieldnotes with you, dear reader, in addition to two installments from our reviews section. Journeys can…

Going Native at Home – Explorations in Method- and note-ology

I’m from here. Well, sort of. When I was 18 months old, we moved to this small town on the Connecticut River, in the…

Emergent Conversation: Being Like a State #anthrostate

Today we are very pleased to continue our #AnthroState debate via this collaboration with the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR). We are very…

Fantastic States!

This thematic week is the continuation of a discussion on the state we, at Allegra, started in november last year. This previous thread explored…

New and Old Wars. Organized Violence in a Global Era.

An important book since its first edition, the third edition of Kaldor’s New and Old Wars struggles to keep pace with the most recent…

The Language of Food. A Linguist Reads the Menu

Dan Jurafsky, computational linguist at Stanford University, achieved what many academics only dream of when his blog The Language of Food – a collection…

The Archaeological Study of Children

As a graduate student at the University of Michigan, I had to write what was called a “preliminary paper.” This paper had to be…

Hurray – It’s a Brand New Allie!

As some of our readers likely guessed, recently something quite marvelous happened within Allegra – something so special as to nudge us to run…

UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security: What has it achieved? #Gender

This Autumn marks the 15th anniversary of the passing of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR 1325) 1325 on “Women, Peace and Security”. The adoption…

Recent Publications on #GENDER

Gone are the times when gender was a mostly female domain of enquiry. In our list of recent publications, two publications exemplify novel ways…

Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War

Anthropology is quite familiar with enculturation and the informal processes by which culture is constructed and transmitted. Increasingly, however, culture is made and diffused…