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 […]
Subtractions and Accumulations
The following curated collection of fragments outlines two main strategies used over the last ten years in the creation of
Worlds of Care
Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities by Aaron J. Jackson is a self-described
Sliding through life
On a chilly afternoon in April of 2016, Lana and I were about to embark on a ride through Saint
Trust: A Pragmatics of Social Life?
Trust exposes and discloses the social. But the heterogeneity and even excessiveness of meaning in the concept—its overdetermination, its multifariousness
“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.
Heritage out of Control: Introduction
Stirring the debates on what is worth preserving, what is dismissible and what needs to be dismantled, heritage has become
Heritage out of Control: Models of Inheriting Spiritual Love
“Muslims go to Mecca once, if they are not unnecessarily wealthy (laughing), but people of all kinds come to visit
Heritage out of Control: Buddhist Material Excess in Depopulating Japan
Inherited Buddhist objects and their associated ritual care connect the dead with the living. Buddhist things are not only material.
Call for reviews: Anthropology of Death and Mourning
The global pandemic has brought death uncomfortably close for many of us. The way our governments, economists, scientists, and fellow