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It’s been a busy half year at Allegra Lab, and we are now taking some time off for the summer. We had some great…
Read MoreIt’s been a busy half year at Allegra Lab, and we are now taking some time off for the summer. We had some great…
Read MoreInherited Buddhist objects and their associated ritual care connect the dead with the living. Buddhist things are not only material. They contain spiritual and…
Read MoreThe past two years have been marked by an ever-accelerating cascade of global “events”: once in a lifetime events, generational events, unexpected events, catastrophic…
Read MoreIn the search to close the digital divide, which has been even more exposed since the COVID-19 pandemic, the insights about technological use within…
Read MoreIn the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic the optimism of the early days of the world wide web appears to have completely abated. The…
Read MoreEthnographic fieldwork resembles a dance on the wire between distance and closeness, seesawing between participant immersion and analytical retreat that turns the anthropologist into…
Read MoreDying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife (2018), edited by Candi K. Cann, is an interdisciplinary study that cuts across…
Read MoreThis is the second part of the conversation our assistant editor Emilie Thévenoz had with Nika Dubrovsky (Read part 1 here). They chatted…
Read MoreThe Anthropology 4 Kids book “What is a nation?” begins like this: This book is a game. We are going to invent a new…
Read More“Anthropology for kids” as a research project I spent most of my life doing two things – raising children and moving from country to…
Read MoreOn a February Thursday afternoon, Nika Dubrovsky and Allegra assistant editor Emilie Thevenoz sat down together over Zoom. The chat covered the pedagogical concepts…
Read MoreTo kick-off our #AisforAnthropology thread, Nika Dubrovsky will be talking to us throughout the week about her project, A4Kids. Our hope is that this…
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