The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis’ Double Standard
Watching the war unfold in Ukraine due to the recent Russian invasion, I, like many others, have been gripped by heartbreaking images of refugees arriving to the borders…
Kommentar von Vassilis Tsianos: Ein gesamteuropäisches Solidaritätsterritorium
Kommentar von Vassilis Tsianos, Uni Kiel, Vorsitzender Rat für Migration, zu Flüchtlingsaufnahme aus der Ukraine Link zum Originalartikel auf Seite des Gemeinnütziges Bildungswerk des Deutschen Gewerk…
Hanna Hilbrandt, “Housing in the Margins: Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin’s Allotment Gardens” (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
Housing in the Margins: Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin’s Allotment Gardens (John Wiley & Sons, 2021) offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their…
L’adolescència com a passatge ritual
La foto és d’Eolo Perfido Comentari per Alícia Santamaria, estudiant del Grau d’Antropologia Social de la UB. Enviat el 5 de desembre de 2o14. L’adolescència com a passatge…
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…
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…
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طرح مسکن استیجاری، الگویی برای تامین مسکن اقشار کم درآمد در ایران
مسکن یکی از مهمترین شاخص های سبد هزینه ی خانوارهای ایرانی است که در ارتقاء امنیت انسانی و عدالت اجتماعی، از جایگاه ویژه ای برخوردار است. بر اساس…
پژوهش کتبی‌سازی حافظه قومی، محمداشرف سربازی
منزلت و شأن فرهنگ با کتبی‌سازی حافظۀ قومی، محمداشرف سربازی مقدمه یکی از نخستین کسانی که در راهاندازی موج پژوهش زبان به عنوان یک یادگارکهن فرهنگی در بلوچستان…
„Anti-Russland“? Die Ukraine als politisches Projekt
Vladimir Putin legitimiert seinen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine unter anderem mit dem Kampf gegen den dort vermeintlich weitverbreiteten extremen Nationalismus. Tatsächlich war der ukrainische Natio…
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…
Freiberuflichkeit
Traditionell gehört die Freiberuflichkeit zu den professionellen Optionen von Geisteswissenschaftler*innen. Es gibt unterschiedliche Gründe, aus denen heraus die Entscheidung fällt. Häufig ist es…
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…
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…
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…
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…