‘TIS THE SEASON…
It’s this time of the year again, and Allegra will close shop for a much-needed period of rest (and some […]
A Crisis of Fiduciary Regulation: From ‘Access’ to Foundering Formalisation in South African Property Inheritance
Administration has a difficult history in South Africa: apartheid was centrally an administrative project, through segregation and exclusion. Areas of
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