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- Post date 26th May 2020
- Post author By Alberto Acerbi
Category: English
How to teach anthropology in a pandemic? by João Biehl
“… a deadly pestilence is in our town, strikes us and spares not, and the house of Cadmus is emptied of its people while Black Death grows rich…
Purpose of Living Anthropologically
In a time of global convulsion, I’m rethinking the purpose of Living Anthropologically as a blog and website. And yes, that image up there is borrowed from the…
Compassion and sacrifice during COVID-19 by Felix Stein
COVID-19 highlights the limits of compassion and the need for sacrifice in contemporary capitalism Compassion with the leader When the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was hospitalized over…
Defining Wellbeing: Tensions in the World Bank’s approach to Universal Health Coverage by Marlee Tichenor
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
COVID-19 impacts in the Arctic: anthropological research gaps / ideas?
Dear all, I’m contributing to an expert document on the impacts of COVID-19 in the Arctic. I think it is essential that we highlight research gaps that we…
Sabina Perrino on her book, Narrating Migration
https://www.routledge.com/Narrating-Migration-Intimacies-of-Exclusion-in-Northern-Italy-1st-Edition/Perrino/p/book/9781138584679 Interview by Daniela Narvaez Daniela Narvaez: In your book, you reflec…
Quaran-Teens 2020: Materiality and Production in Pandemic: A High School Perspective
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams were cancelled, they decided they would…
How to Make Sense of “Traditional (Chinese) Medicine” In a Time of Covid-19: Cold War Origin Stories and the WHO’s Role in Making Space for Polyglot Therapeutics by Helen Tilley
Note: I wrote this for anyone trying to “teach the virus,” something I will soon be doing myself. The question in the title is meant to signal that…
Ethical inversions due to COVID-19: Pandemic and local ironies in managing responsibilities by Viviana L. Toro Matuk
On Friday March 21th 2020, the Fula men, who live in the town of Gabu, in the northeast of Guinea-Bissau, did not meet to pray in their mosques.…
The power of bingo during COVID-19 by Carrie Ryan
As lockdowns impose physical distancing, communities are imagining new ways to connect, and there is one surprising, shared tactic communities across the world are using to bolster social…
‘Maybe When All This Is Over Jesus Will Come Back’: Crisis, Post-Crisis And Millenarian Time
GARETH BREEN The Pursuit of the Millennium is an influential book by Norman Cohn. In it, Cohn shows quite precisely how in Medieval times millenarian movements periodically rode…
#Afterlives: Tears and Dreams of a Martyr
“When my father went, he knew he let me in safe hands. It means that instead of one hand, I have a million hands; instead of one hug,…
Balancing Acts: An Ethnographer’s Thoughts on Studying Religion
Anthropologists sometimes study sensitive topics and it is therefore not uncommon for ethnographic work to attract serious criticism along such lines. In a recent social media thread, I…
Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19 – Issue 3 by Eugene Raikhel
May 13 -19, 2020 “Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19” is a weekly compilation of COVID-19-related materials across text, audio, and video formats focused on medical anthropology and neighboring…
Anthropology of Wage Theft in Colorado
The theft of immigrant workers’ wages is a growing problem in the United States. In March 2018, University of Denver law student Katie Brown won $15,000 in County…
On Pandemic Prophecy, Unsustainable Lockdowns and the Magic of Numbers: A Conversation with Carlo Caduff #MUHUM
As vast parts of the world went into Covid-19 lockdown over the past months critics of this approach have emerged from a broad spectrum: amongst others, libertarians who…
Blog Post Series: Von der Cyberanthropologie zur Digitalen Anthropologie – Teil 4
Diese Serie von Blogeinträgen beschreibt die Relevanz kultur- und sozialanthropologischer Zugänge in der Untersuchung digitaler Technik und Technologien, dargestellt anhand wissenschaftstheoretischer…
Unearthing the True Toll of the Tulsa Race Massacre
The Booker T. Washington High School parade processes along Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Greenwood Cultural Center Just north of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, Greenwood once had one o…
Links & Contents I Liked 366
Hi all, Oxfam’s bombshell announcement this week to lay of 1450 staff is only the latest concrete development around bigger questions around the future of (I)NGOs & civil…
Connecting through the Layered Traumas of Fieldwork
By CD Green (Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus series) This billboard is part of an ad campaign that began just after the virus arrived. It has continued…
#StayAwake in the Time of Pandemic: A Case of Anti-Government Protests in Slovenia (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Ziga Podgornik Jakil Almost every Saturday afternoon in the past two months, the so called ‘Hygiene-Demo’ takes place at the Rosa…
How Our Behaviour Affects Virus Evolution
DR GUL DENIZ SALALI COVID-19 is caused by the novel coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2), but coronaviruses have been among us for years. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses, and…
Ashley Mears, “Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Ashley Mears’ new book Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit (Princeton University Press, 2020) provides readers with a closer look at the global…