We go get lost
It’s been a busy half year at Allegra Lab, and we are now taking some time off for the summer. […]
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.
Punctuation and Flow
The past two years have been marked by an ever-accelerating cascade of global “events”: once in a lifetime events, generational
Digital Divisions
In the search to close the digital divide, which has been even more exposed since the COVID-19 pandemic, the insights
Digital Divisions
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic the optimism of the early days of the world wide web appears to
Being a parent in the field
Ethnographic fieldwork resembles a dance on the wire between distance and closeness, seesawing between participant immersion and analytical retreat that
Dying to Eat
Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife (2018), edited by Candi K. Cann, is an interdisciplinary
#AisforAnthropology: In Conversation with Nika Dubrovsky (II)
This is the second part of the conversation our assistant editor Emilie Thévenoz had with Nika Dubrovsky (Read part
A4Kids: A space for experimentation
The Anthropology 4 Kids book “What is a nation?” begins like this: This book is a game. We are going
A4Kids: how it all started
“Anthropology for kids” as a research project I spent most of my life doing two things – raising children and