kinship Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/kinship/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:19:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png kinship Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/kinship/ 32 32 A Crisis of Fiduciary Regulation: From ‘Access’ to Foundering Formalisation in South African Property Inheritance https://allegralaboratory.net/a-crisis-of-fiduciary-regulation-from-access-to-foundering-formalisation-in-south-african-property-inheritance/ https://allegralaboratory.net/a-crisis-of-fiduciary-regulation-from-access-to-foundering-formalisation-in-south-african-property-inheritance/#respond Fri, 14 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44167 Administration has a difficult history in South Africa: apartheid was centrally an administrative project, through segregation and exclusion. Areas of […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/a-crisis-of-fiduciary-regulation-from-access-to-foundering-formalisation-in-south-african-property-inheritance/feed/ 0 Afterlives of revolution: Nikkie Wiegink’s comments https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nikkie-wieginks-comments/ https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nikkie-wieginks-comments/#respond Sat, 01 Jun 2024 07:02:28 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41789 “The struggle continues” is a famous and frequently repeated phrase attributed to Eduardo Mondlane, the first President of FRELIMO, the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nikkie-wieginks-comments/feed/ 0 Sticky Relationships at Wartime https://allegralaboratory.net/sticky-relationships-at-wartime/ https://allegralaboratory.net/sticky-relationships-at-wartime/#respond Mon, 17 Apr 2023 08:00:25 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39902 Chimit, a Buryat professional in his late 20s, had been considering moving to Europe for at least a decade, but […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/sticky-relationships-at-wartime/feed/ 0 The intimate life of dissent https://allegralaboratory.net/review-the-intimate-life-of-dissent/ https://allegralaboratory.net/review-the-intimate-life-of-dissent/#respond Tue, 04 Oct 2022 07:00:58 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39453 Book review of Amarasuriya, Harini, et al. The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives. UCL Press, 2020. The Intimate Life […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/review-the-intimate-life-of-dissent/feed/ 0 Trust: A Pragmatics of Social Life? https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-a-pragmatics-of-social-life/ https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-a-pragmatics-of-social-life/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:05:20 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39370 Trust exposes and discloses the social. But the heterogeneity and even excessiveness of meaning in the concept—its overdetermination, its multifariousness […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-a-pragmatics-of-social-life/feed/ 0 Being Like Family: Humanitarian Mobility and Metaphors of Kinship across Asia https://allegralaboratory.net/being-like-family-humanitarian-mobility-and-metaphors-of-kinship-across-asia/ https://allegralaboratory.net/being-like-family-humanitarian-mobility-and-metaphors-of-kinship-across-asia/#respond Mon, 04 Apr 2022 08:00:47 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=38174   In this webinar series, we explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism in the course of four episodes. We […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/being-like-family-humanitarian-mobility-and-metaphors-of-kinship-across-asia/feed/ 0 Heritage out of Control: Buddhist Material Excess in Depopulating Japan https://allegralaboratory.net/heritage-out-of-control-buddhist-material-excess-in-depopulating-japan/ https://allegralaboratory.net/heritage-out-of-control-buddhist-material-excess-in-depopulating-japan/#respond Mon, 24 Jan 2022 06:55:38 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=37225 Inherited Buddhist objects and their associated ritual care connect the dead with the living. Buddhist things are not only material. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/heritage-out-of-control-buddhist-material-excess-in-depopulating-japan/feed/ 0 Animal Intimacies https://allegralaboratory.net/book-review-animal-intimacies/ https://allegralaboratory.net/book-review-animal-intimacies/#respond Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:00:48 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=35454 The creative disentanglement of human-animal relationships in Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas by Radhika Govindrajan is an […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/book-review-animal-intimacies/feed/ 0 Don’t make me laugh: How getting it wrong shapes interspecies entanglements in the Batek’s forest https://allegralaboratory.net/dont-make-me-laugh-how-getting-it-wrong-shapes-interspecies-entanglements-in-the-bateks-forest/ https://allegralaboratory.net/dont-make-me-laugh-how-getting-it-wrong-shapes-interspecies-entanglements-in-the-bateks-forest/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:25:36 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34618 “yeʔ kan plŋal!” “lawac!” “hɛy yeʔ leh!” “Don’t laugh!”, “It’s taboo!”, “We shouldn’t!”   Naʔ Srimjam kept admonishing us one afternoon […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/dont-make-me-laugh-how-getting-it-wrong-shapes-interspecies-entanglements-in-the-bateks-forest/feed/ 0 Animal Intimacies https://allegralaboratory.net/review-animal-intimacies/ https://allegralaboratory.net/review-animal-intimacies/#respond Fri, 03 Jul 2020 06:00:19 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34021 In her book Animal Intimacies Radhika Govindrajan takes us through a series of human-animal relations in India’s Central Himalayas, the […]

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