HELP! (Before we CRASH!)
Ever so often you – our beloved Allegra readers – may have noticed that we have issued a call, perhaps to crowd source for references or most influential…
Provisioning activism
Alternative agro-food networks A growing literature identifies alternative strategies for self-provisioning: i.e., for procuring food and other goods and services in a consciously oriented way (for e…
How to Make Extremism Mainstream and Fake a Debate about Islamophobia
Is there a genuine debate taking place about Islamophobia? When and why did the “concern” about Islamophobia reach the highest levels of government in North America and western…
Are The Media Using The Wrong Yardstick To Measure The Revolution?
The concept of “revolution” used by Western media to report on the so-called “Arab Spring” (itself a term coined by the Western media) is rooted in understandings of…
Reorganized Organ: youth mentorship project
Are you an artist, musician, hacker, tinkerer, or generally a curious person, between 18 and 24 years?
Capturing the Art of Imprisonment
Over the span of about four decades, the late Russian artist Vasily Konovalenko (1929–1989) produced more than 70 wonderful gem-carving sculptures that depict themes and scenes of Russian…
Capturing the Art of Imprisonment
Over the span of about four decades, the late Russian artist Vasily Konovalenko (1929–1989) produced more than 70 wonderful gem-carving sculptures that depict themes and scenes of Russian…
Did children build the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna?
New evidence from Akhenaten’s capital suggests that a ‘disposable’ workforce of children and teenagers provided much of the labour for the city’s construction There’s a whiff of magic…
The Force of Custom in Kyrgyzstan: Allegra’s Judith Beyer discusses her new book
Sean Guillory of Sean’s Russia Blog spoke with our Publications and Reviews Editor Judith Beyer about her book The force of custom. Law and the ordering of everyday…
Editorial der neuen Zeitschrift für Flüchtlingsforschung
Von Marcel Berlinghoff, J. Olaf Kleist, Ulrike Krause und Jochen Oltmer Die erste Ausgabe der Zeitschrift für Flüchtlingsforschung (Z’Flucht) ist erschienen. Im Editorial gehen die HerausgeberI…
Pacific Reading PDFs Update (12/20/16)
I have just found this amazing resource/blog – highly recommend checking it out if you are interested in Oceania. Beauty of Oceania LINK TO PACIFIC READING DROPBOX These…
Wearing slammerkins and dreaming: Sex work in fiction
In Slammerkin, Mary is a street prostitute in mid-18th-century London. Thrown out of her dismal basement home by a mother absolute in condemnation of Mary’s pregnancy at 14,…
Wearing slammerkins and dreaming: Sex work in fiction
In Slammerkin, Mary is a street prostitute in mid-18th-century London. Thrown out of her dismal basement home by a mother absolute in condemnation of Mary’s pregnancy at 14,…
Review: Real Pigs
Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork Brad Weiss. Duke University Press, 2016. Neri de Kramer University of Delaware This book is an…
anthro in the news 6/5/17
credit: Strategic Culture Foundation online journal 8/31/16 hope for democracy at the grassroots Japan Today published commentary from social anthropologist Dame Henrietta Moore, director of the Insti…
Music of Anthropology
Music, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology For the June 2017 issue of Open Anthropology I assembled 15 articles for an issue titled “Music – Anthropology – Life.” Under the new agree…
Music of Anthropology
For the next issue of Open Anthropology I am assembling a list of articles on music. Consistent with the mission of Open Anthropology, these articles will be open…
Animating Resistance
Anthropology as Public Pedagogy The horned serpent serves as a witness to the events that unfold during the Pueblo uprising. Warren Montoya On January 25, President Trump signed…
#AltAc Anthropology Careers – The draw of experiential design firms
Paul Heartly, a Toronto native and anthropologist, gave unique insight into his hiring PhDs for an ‘alternative’ career. In a 2015 interview for Alt-Ac Advisor, Heartly stated: it is interest…
#AltAc Anthropology Careers – The draw of experiential design firms
Paul Heartly, a Toronto native and anthropologist, gave unique insight into his hiring PhDs for an ‘alternative’ career. In a 2015 interview for Alt-Ac Advisor, Heartly stated: it is interest…
Music of Anthropology
Music, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology For the June 2017 issue of Open Anthropology I assembled 15 articles for an issue titled “Music – Anthropology – Life.” Under the new agree…
Recycling Reconsidered: A must-read text for discard studies
If I could only recommend one text in discard studies, it would be Recycling Reconsidered by Samantha MacBride (2011, MIT Press).