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 […]
REDUX: What does Humanity look like? Ethnography of the CIA – with Carole McGranahan
It has been a while since I have last encountered her – I wonder if I will still recognize her.
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
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
REDUX: #Fieldwork with children
Today we combine two recent Allegra themes – both very dear to us – by revisiting a jewel from our
Fieldnote One-Shots
Beyond Fieldwork: emotions, facial ‘disfigurement’ and a PhD #Fieldnotes
What does it feel like to do fieldwork? How does one encounter experiences of suffering, trauma – even death – while maintaining
Allegra CALLS for #Fieldnotes!
Aah – it’s almost that time of the year again! Namely the time when many anthropologists sheds their boring ‘everyday’
My Parents’ Material (and Immaterial) Labor: Notes on Duty, Love, and Privilege in Fieldwork
Anxieties of Arrival Like many accounts of ethnographic fieldwork, this one begins with an arrival story. When I arrived for
Dealing with reality and falsehood in the field
As Craig Larkin already noticed in one of his studies, in human events the tension between what is said and
Judicial means and political ends: Transitional justice and political trials
There are fascinating parallels and connections between political trials and transitional justice. Both are seen to serve other ends than