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Rise against – call for reviews on precarious work and protest music

From patronising hierarchical superiors to casual, zero-hour contracts, to pension cuts, we are witnessing in many countries the entrenchment of a two-tier system of…

Review: White Gold. Stories of Breast Milk Sharing

Those of the general public who have heard of milk kinship usually regard milk kinship as a feature of “primitive”, “tribal” lineage-based societies, often…

Living a good life through infrastructure. A Review of three recent monographs on Central Asia

This post belongs into a series of posts on the workshop “The Future of Central Asian Studies” organized by Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer and…

Call for Reviews: #AnthroState #Africa

As we start into 2018, we seize the opportunity of this post by Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan on their influential edited volume…

#review: space of boredom

Bruce O’Neill’s (2017) The Space of Boredom is a historically rich and theoretically innovative ethnography of contemporary homelessness and social exclusion in Bucharest. O’Neill…

#review: anthropology and law

The task of reviewing Mark Goodale’s Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction was weird, in a fractal way. The book itself, the object of…

Allegra Calling for Reviews Editor!

Allegra is looking for a new reviews editor to take over the responsibilities of our Ally Judith Beyer who needs a break to concentrate…

Call for reviews: legal anthropology

Although Allegra’s editorial team is academically firmly rooted in legal anthropology, this is – we believe – the first explicit collection of new publications…

Reviews week, a new call – and a thank you note!

This week we feature new reviews as well as a new call for reviews on the theme of #legalanthro! Tomorrow, our Allie Julie Billaud…

Reviews week: Let’s talk about gender!

Following up on Felix Girke’s review of Rogers Brubaker’s book #trans, this #reviews week is dedicated to more new publications that explore #gender at…