The 30 Essential Books in Anthropology
At the end of 2015 Allegra launched a virtual survey among junior and senior anthropologists in order to select the
Top of 2016 – or thereabouts!
Who can believe that it’s almost Spring – where did the time fly?! At Allegra we just realized that we
The past, the present and the future
It’s time for some exciting events!! Let’s go on a little bit of a time travel as we attempt to
Fighting a wildfire on a gun range, or, the sensuous memories of fieldwork
Introduction I fought 32 wildfires over fifteen months as part of my ethnographic research. I fought them with men who
Nellie’s green lipped mussels #MeadCompetition
One Wednesday afternoon, about four years following my family’s migration from Israel to New Zealand, I was gripped by a
EASA and European Anthropology: An Interview with Antonio De Lauri #EASAexec
Antonio, you decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a
Ageing Threads
(Mis)Fortune of ageing
It’s really bad with him. There are metastases in his head. He can stay at home tonight, and tomorrow night
Threads University Crisis
Insiders, Outsiders, and Intellectual Kinship
Marshall Sahlins once dismissed the possibility that teacher-student relationships might be a kind of kinship. ‘Persons may have various relational
Emerging Evidence
My goal is to skirt gingerly around evidence leaving it just where it lies, and instead to prod the contingent
Cultural evidence and the law
How do we decide whether or not to accept the evidence of our senses, or to put our faith in