Ordinary Treasures: Objects from Home
I am going to start with breathing what I push out of me and what you push out of you […]
On Censorship and the American Anthropological Association’s Declining Democracy
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is awaiting the results of a membership vote on a resolution to boycott Israeli academic
Summer Break
We have been fighting to make it to the summer break and, look, there it is, the summer holidays are
On Starships and people: Can we rescue the liberatory potentials of technology?
On April 20th, 2023, SpaceX attempted the first integrated flight of its biggest rocket called Starship. SpaceX is a private
Waiting as Productive Fieldwork
Several weeks into my fieldwork at one of the Integrated Tribal Development Agencies (ITDA) in Telangana, a federal state in
Encountering Precarities: The Podcast
Allegra Editor Ian sits down with Thread guest editors Viola Castellano & Olivia Casagrande to discuss ‘Encountering precarities: ethnography, spurious
Building Bodies for Thought: The Podcast
Allegra Editor Ian podcasts together with Thread guest editors Aja Smith & Anne Line Dalsgård as they explore Building Bodies
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Anti-Boycott Laws?
Anthropologists are often quick to decry the law as a fig leaf for the exercise of raw political or economic
Subtractions and Accumulations
The following curated collection of fragments outlines two main strategies used over the last ten years in the creation of
Give a Hand To the Fallen, as Long as You Are Standing: Earthquake Disaster Relief among AfghansÂ
Mullah Yaqub appeared in the doorway of his Quranic school, and smiled when he saw me, shaking my hand firmly.