Luanda Taxi – a fieldwork playlist
Conducting ethnographic fieldwork in a hectic, chaotic, and sprawling multimillion metropolis like Luanda presents logistical and epistemological challenges. If one […]
Chiatura, my pride
Today Allegra TV features a film that is the first in a series of five ethnographic films produced by Ian
New Anthropologies of Political Performance – thematic thread on performance
Definitions of ‘performance’ abound. Some of the principal reasons for anthropologists’ continued interest in the subject of performance are the
#Review: Anthropology, Theatre and Development #Performance
In their introduction to Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius do an
Kabul Carnival. Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan
I recently had the challenging pleasure of reading Julie Billaud’s Kabul Carnival on my first visit to Afghanistan. As a
Performance Threads
The press conference as performative (political) space
In this short piece, I would like to consider a performative site that is often overlooked: that of the press
REDUX: Fear by Numbers: On the rise of Europe’s ‘Illegality Industry’
It’s no longer all quiet on the western front. In recent years, Europe’s “fight against illegal migration” has alternately been
Experimental Education in Feminist Anthropology
With students sprawled out on the lawn, a passer-by stopped to listen to the workshop as we sat in a circle
time to csángó
Time to Csángó, a creative short documentary by Hadas Bar, Ian Cook, Anette Dujisin, explores the popularity of the táncház
Breaking walls and exploring borders in the context of postsocialism
Today we are very excited at Allegra – we continue our experimentation with serving you, dear readers, exotic and delicious