life-cycle Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/life-cycle/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:50:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png life-cycle Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/life-cycle/ 32 32 ‘TIS THE SEASON… https://allegralaboratory.net/tis-the-season/ https://allegralaboratory.net/tis-the-season/#respond Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:38:38 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46354 It’s this time of the year again, and Allegra will close shop for a much-needed period of rest (and some […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/tis-the-season/feed/ 0 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 We go get lost https://allegralaboratory.net/gone-sweatin/ https://allegralaboratory.net/gone-sweatin/#respond Mon, 25 Jul 2022 19:00:26 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39246 It’s been a busy half year at Allegra Lab, and we are now taking some time off for the summer. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/gone-sweatin/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 Punctuation and Flow https://allegralaboratory.net/politicalengagements-punctuation-and-flow/ https://allegralaboratory.net/politicalengagements-punctuation-and-flow/#respond Wed, 22 Sep 2021 07:00:58 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=36659 The past two years have been marked by an ever-accelerating cascade of global “events”: once in a lifetime events, generational […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/politicalengagements-punctuation-and-flow/feed/ 0 Digital Divisions https://allegralaboratory.net/bookreview-digital-divisions/ https://allegralaboratory.net/bookreview-digital-divisions/#respond Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:00:32 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=36505 In the search to close the digital divide, which has been even more exposed since the COVID-19 pandemic, the insights […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/bookreview-digital-divisions/feed/ 0 Digital Divisions https://allegralaboratory.net/book-review-digital-divisions/ https://allegralaboratory.net/book-review-digital-divisions/#respond Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:00:44 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=36344 In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic the optimism of the early days of the world wide web appears to […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/book-review-digital-divisions/feed/ 0 Being a parent in the field https://allegralaboratory.net/bookreview-being-a-parent-in-the-field-2/ https://allegralaboratory.net/bookreview-being-a-parent-in-the-field-2/#respond Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:53:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=36443 Ethnographic fieldwork resembles a dance on the wire between distance and closeness, seesawing between participant immersion and analytical retreat that […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/bookreview-being-a-parent-in-the-field-2/feed/ 0 Dying to Eat https://allegralaboratory.net/bookreview-dying-to-eat/ https://allegralaboratory.net/bookreview-dying-to-eat/#respond Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:24:28 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=36381 Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife (2018), edited by Candi K. Cann, is an interdisciplinary […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/bookreview-dying-to-eat/feed/ 0 #AisforAnthropology: In Conversation with Nika Dubrovsky (II) https://allegralaboratory.net/aisforanthropology-in-conversation-with-nika-dubrovsky-ii/ https://allegralaboratory.net/aisforanthropology-in-conversation-with-nika-dubrovsky-ii/#respond Fri, 26 Mar 2021 08:00:38 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=35936   This is the second part of the conversation our assistant editor Emilie Thévenoz had with Nika Dubrovsky (Read part […]

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