REDUX: ARTIFACTS AND ALLEGIANCES: HOW MUSEUMS PUT THE NATION AND THE WORLD ON DISPLAY
You just have to walk down the street in any immigrant neighborhood—Washington Heights in New York City, Kreuzberg in Berlin, […]
Essay One-Shots
Mohawk Interruptus
In the online forum Native Appropriations, Dr. Adrienne Keene writes “When you’re invisible in society . . . every representation matters”
Wrapped in the Flag of Israel
How can we conceive of the contemporary relationship between race, poverty, and bureaucracy? Smadar Lavie’s latest publication, an account of
Becoming Bureaucrats
Zachary Oberfield’s work Becoming Bureaucrats (2014) provides the academic community with a glimpse into the making of police officers and
Statelessness
‘Statelessness’ is a legal status denoting lack of any nationality, a status whereby the otherwise normal link between an individual
Interview with Edward E. Curtis IV
The goal should be human rights, freedom, and dignity for all, and Black Muslims in the United States have been
AAA, BDS and Palestine: New Thematic Week
When the Jewish Agency in Tel-Aviv announced the institution of the Provisional Government of Israel on 14 May 1948, the
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
Can a gas pipeline heal Bolivia’s wounded geo-body?
During the May 2015 announcement for Bolivia’s new cross-country Incahuasi–Cochabamba Gas Pipeline, a high official in Bolivia’s state-run gas company
INTRODUCTION: UKRAINE & RUSSIA
Every once in a while we have to remind ourselves of the motto that governs Allegra’s operations: our Academic Slow