My last post on community problems and this post on community collaborative problem solving have unintentionally come together as bookends and an appropriate way to ring out the…
It’s this time of the year again, and Allegra will close shop for a much-needed period of rest (and some […] The post ‘TIS THE SEASON… appeared first…
What provisions does it take to live in temporal and spatial in-betweenness, never quite knowing when, or if, return is possible – or even where to? How do…
In a perhaps misguided effort to preserve love of writing, enthuse about independent critical mental facility, to “exercise the metaphoric muscle”, as Mick Taussig would say, and just…
La fotografia es de Alejandro Reinoso Notas para la entonces doctoranda todavía Alba Marina González, enviadas en noviembre de 2014, sobre su investigación sobre la salsa brava en…
In memory of Akiko Sugase (1971-2025) From March 13 to June 17, 2025, a Thematic Exhibition for the 50th Anniversary […] The post Connecting the Dots: An Exhibition…
As all-out genocidal violence against Palestinians continues in Gaza, an anthropologist calls attention to how the Israeli state operates through quieter, bureaucratic means to displace and dispossess…
Muntatge de Jordi Colomer, un dels artistes de l’exposició, presa de ineselo69.blogspot.com.es/2009/11/jordi-colomer.html Catàleg de l’exposició Escenaris transitables, Museu d’Art de Girona…
Introduction In the Ancient texts of the Vedas and Upanishads, Hindu cosmological thought advocates the theory of Naad-Brahman, translated as the Sound of Brahman. It posits that the…
A linguistic anthropologist explores the queer Ballroom scene in San Juan—and how performers are incorporating critiques of colonialism into the art form. “READING” ABOUT HER FASHION I look…
This blog post is part of the Seminar Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience, April 10, 2025, funded by the WARFUN project. Commenting on my research for the WarFun project,…
Foto de Matt Weber Nota per a Anna Gómez i Ariadna Galiana, estudiants del Grau d’Antropologia Social de la UB, enviat el juliol de 2013 ALGUNES CONSIDERACIONS SOBRE…
Gripping tightly onto a walking stick, I slowly and precariously make my way through the forest. Careful not to catch my prosthetic foot on the exposed roots, I’m…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/six-paintings-from-papunya Jennifer Biddle: As a way of beginning, could you briefly introduce yourselves, and what brought you together on this project. …
“Why do most of the paintings speak of war?” Dima, barely nine-year-old, asked me. This summer, as my Royal Jordanian […] The post Of Home and Ghosts: Notes…
The Eastern edges of the European Union stand as landscapes of transformation and socioeconomic and cultural flux, situated between shifting empires and layered histories. Their in-betweenness mirrors…
Marie Gorm Aabo Even before I started my fieldwork on sound, tinnitus, and soundscapes, I had a feeling that I […] The post Gut Feeling appeared first on…
Niina Oisalo Weather, diary of the body Meri Kytö Weather walking In Venice, there is a habit of “andar sconte” […] The post Weather appeared first on Allegra…
The warm December sun had only recently risen over Miami Beach when I found myself in the bustling halls of Art Basel Miami 2021, one of the world’s…
A few years ago, my friend Caroline Bennett gave me Lynda Barry’s 2014 book Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor and this term I decided to use some…
Many museums are wrestling with returning looted or unethically obtained ancient objects. An archaeologist considers how a shift in public attitudes toward plaster and 3D copies could make…
In this Mad Max–like California landscape, artists and activists are inventing renewable alternatives to the capitalist system that’s developing but also destroying the region. ✽ Dusk at the…
Gogi is a comic strip character who boldly addresses issues of women’s rights in Pakistan and the broader Muslim world. A cultural anthropologist interviews Gogi’s creator, Nigar Nazar,…
In Refugee Voices, Rob Sharp explores how refugees in the UK use creative media to express themselves and their experiences. Through detailed fieldwork in Cardiff and Tyneside, Sharp’s nuanced…