In The Journals, March 2022, Part 2 by Gabrielle Hanley-Mott
Science as Culture The Role of US Policymaking in the Emergence of a Digital Health Assemblage Elisa Lievevrouw, L. Marelli, and I. Van Hoyweghen Promising to improve the…
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Dear Allies, meet Jas.
As a rule, here at Allegra, we as editors emphasise our collectiveness. Rightly so: There is very soft division of labour, there is no hierarchy, and we strive…
Why the world needs anthropology of religion
by Thijl Sunier According to Dutch media, the Netherlands has reached a milestone these days. For the first time in history, the country has a majority of inhabitants…
What Kenya’s Killer Cops Reveal About Police Culture
On July 7, 2021, Nairobi residents marched to protest police brutality and harassment, particularly against poor people. The date also commemorates demonstrations against authoritarian rule that …
Socio-Cultural Anthropology under Hitler: An Introduction to Four Case Studies from Vienna
Note to readers: This introduction seeks to draw attention to the three-volume collection examining Socio-Cultural Anthropology in Vienna during the Nazi period (1938-1945), recently published in Ge…
Book Review: The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death
Durand, P. (2020). The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death. University of Chicago Press. All bolded terms are defined at the bottom of this post. Durand is an…
Hugo Ceron-Anaya, “Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2019) is a book about inequalities, social hierarchies, and privilege in contemporary Mexico. Based on ethnographic…
Immensely facilitated
VLUU L210 / Samsung L210 A scrap from a 1996 notebook, it was sent to the aut-op-sy listserve: In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels formulated a paragraph…
In the Journals March 2022, Part 1 by Livia Garofalo
Here’s the first part of the In the Journals for March. There’s a special issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry called “Special Issue on Being Human in the…
CFF: RAI Film Festival 2023 (deadline: 31 August)
The RAI Film Festival is the UK’s longest running festival for new voices in ethnographic and anthropological documentary cinema. Film submissions to RAI-FF 2023 are open until 31…
Another Kind of Concrete
Another Kind of Concrete by Koushik Banerjea Started reading: I’ve been editing other people’s writing for a living for years, but the best writer with whom I’ve had…
Was the Acropolis a Harem? A Myth of Orientalism
The Acropolis of Athens has birthed countless tales, some of which appear to be more based on fiction than fact. Oleksandr Troitskyi/Wikimedia Commons This article was originally publishe…
Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, “American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York” (Princeton UP, 2021)
In American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton University Press, 2022), Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers tell the story of how a…
Hilda Lloréns, “Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice” (U of Washington Press, 2021)
When Hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pommeled by economic austerity, political upheaval, and…
The Future of Delusions: A Discussion with Lisa Bortolotti
The accusation “you’re deluded” is often used as something of a cheap shot intended to silence an opponent in debate. But what is the nature of a delusion…
“We don’t have to whisper”: Fieldnotes from Odesa
I met Engineer Yakiv[1] on board a merchant ship I had joined just south of Sri Lanka in early 2013. I was there to study seafarers’ perceptions of…
Climatic Futures and Tree Response-ability: Can Urban Forests Restore Human-Tree Relations?
Listen to an audio recording of this post read by Tayeba Batool This browser does not support HTML5 audio How do we account for the agency of trees…
När goda intentioner slår fel – nyanlända flyktingars erfarenheter av Etableringsprogrammet
Nina Gren: I en kontorsbyggnad nära stadens centrum fylls ett stort rum med människor. De samlas runt tre olika personer – tolkarna mellan svenska och arabiska, svenska och…
Siv Lie on her book, Django Generations
www.djangogen.com https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo114656860.html Interview by Lynn M. Hooker Lynn Hooker: First, beginning with the title, your book uses a variety …
Predominantly White Institutions’ Overtures to Black Students OR This Is What They Tell You Without Telling You
Enslaved people built the Rotunda at the University of Virginia in the 19th century. Chrispecoraro/Getty Images Go to undergrad, go to graduate school, get a Ph.D. heft onto…
Megan Tobias Neely, “Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street” (U of California Press, 2022)
Is the finance industry fair? In Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street (University of California Press, 2022) Megan Tobias Neely, an assistant professor in the Department of Organisation at Copenhagen Business School,…
Being Like Family: Humanitarian Mobility and Metaphors of Kinship across Asia
In this webinar series, we explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism in the course of four episodes. We – this is Till Mostowlansky, an anthropologist at…
Anita Lama, “Ethnic Inequality in the Northeastern Indian Borderlands” (Routledge, 2020)
Anita Lama’s book Ethnic Inequality in the Northeastern Indian Borderlands (Routledge, 2020) analyses the relationship between symbolic violence, inequality and ethnicity, and addresses the question of unequal integration of small…
Ghostly Encounters on Google: Spirit Photography, Reverse Image Search and Urban Critique in Baltimore
In 1866, Alfred Russell Wallace proclaimed a “new branch of anthropology” premised on the Spiritualist movement that was then exploding in popularity in England. For Wallace, that anthropology…