Humanitarianism(s) in socialist Red Cross societies
The international Red Cross family built up a network of humanitarian aiders that one cannot pass over when thinking about 20th century humanitarianism. This…
Read MoreThe international Red Cross family built up a network of humanitarian aiders that one cannot pass over when thinking about 20th century humanitarianism. This…
Read MoreResearching with social movements (environmental activism, makerspaces) brings ethnography’s nuanced, embodied and collective sense-making to the fore. I also argue that anthropological research within…
Read MoreEarlier this year I attended a workshop on academic writing. The intent, so I thought, was to explore avenues in academic research to see…
Read MoreDorothy Noyes, Professor of English and Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University, responds to the questions Chiara Bortolotto has recently raised in her virtual…
Read More“Collaborative dilemmas” was the title of a workshop held last April at EHESS in Paris under the framework of “UNESCO frictions: heritage-making across global…
Read MoreAre those developments, usually condemned as corrupting us as scholars and leading to the death of pure research, introducing some kind of innovation vis-à-vis…
Read MoreAs a researcher who was raised in Brazil, my uncertainty and dilemmas may have a different punch compared to other cases. The context of…
Read MoreFor more than ten years I have been exploring UNESCO policies in the field of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). My interest spans from the…
Read MoreAre these developments, usually condemned as corrupting us as scholars and leading to the death of pure research, introducing some kind of innovation vis-à-vis…
Read MoreAlthough Allegra’s editorial team is academically firmly rooted in legal anthropology, this is – we believe – the first explicit collection of new publications…
Read MoreLet us face it: most anthropologists in Europe and North America, this author included, are leftist-liberal, cosmopolitan people. It regularly escapes my colleagues’ and…
Read MoreWhen Vladimir Nalivkin, a Russian officer who had served in several military campaigns, and his wife, Maria Nalivkina, took up farming in 1878 in…
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