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…
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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…
Catching up with Glenn Shepard: Interview to launch benefit photography sale with Linda Matney Gallery
This interview launches a new partnership with Linda Matney Gallery. Proceeds from the sale of selected photographs will directly support vital health services including emergency Covid-19 prevention …
The Willamette Mission Development
Thanks to Jim Sheppke, former State Librarian for the state of Oregon, I received a digital copy of the thesis“Mill Place” on the Willamette a new Mission house…
Accessibility at the AAA Meeting
Two anthropologists reflect on their experiences and ask what it will take to make our discipline and our Annual Meeting more accessible. Why should you care about accessibility?…
U.S. Coronavirus Advice Is Failing Pregnant Women
Zully, a COVID-19 patient whose last name was withheld for privacy, holds up a photo of her newborn baby, Neysel, on April 24 in Stamford, Connecticut. She gave…
Long Read Review: Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts by Frédéric Keck
In Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts, Frédéric Keck offers a new ethnographic study of how human and animal relations are being reshaped in…
The Significance of Covid-19 as Crisis by Marijn Nieuwenhuis
What is the significance of COVID-19? The honest response is that I don’t know which, however, does not prevent me from thinking that it has something crucial to…
Venezuelans affected twice by COVID-19 actions in Latin America
Rigorous measures against the corona pandemic in Latin America affect the millions of Venezuelan migrants harder than local populations on the continent. The closure of borders with neighbouring…
Naar een antropologie van Nederland
DOOR TOON VAN MEIJL De vraag naar de staat van de Nederlandse antropologie en eventuele veranderingen die zich daarin hebben voltrokken is interessant. In het buitenland wordt mij…
Cowboys and Coronavirus: Protesting Covid-19 in ‘The Land of the Free’
ROSIE MATHERS Over the last couple of weeks protests have broken out across America against lockdown measures imposed to reduce the spread and contraction of Covid-19. Rallies across…
C. M. Driscoll and M. R. Miller, “Method as Identity: Manufacturing Distance in the Academic Study of Religion” (Lexington, 2018)
In the study of religion there are various camps that each approach their subjects in unique ways. Each method is shaped by particular interpretive choices, such as to…
Magical #afterlives in post-genocidal Turkey
One enters the city of Dersim, surrounded by the steep holy Munzur Mountains in central Anatolia, after showing one’s ID at several security check points along the way.…
Roundtable: “COVID-19: Views from the Field”
We’re wrapping up our five-part series, “COVID-19: Views from the Field,” with a pre-recorded roundtable. This roundtable brought our authors into conversation with each other, acros…
Ventilators Alone Won’t Save Us
[no-caption] Juanmonino/Getty Images During an unusually calm shift in the intensive care unit, Barbara (a pseudonym), the experienced doctor on staff, asked me and the resident physician…
Go Suppress Yourself | A Chronicle by Anthony Stavrianakis
In December 2019, reports emerged of a pneumonia of unknown origin in the city of Wuhan, China. A week into 2020, a novel pathogen was identified–– “severe acute…
Co-labouring for Sustainability: the value of transdisciplinary collaboration between mining actors, artists and researchers
Co-labouring in research projects generates new perspectives and creates shared experiences and moments of enjoyment. Reporting on a recent workshop in Ghana, Robert Pijpers and Sabine Luning show…
The management of the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil and necropolitics: An essay on an announced tragedy by Daniel Granada
In recent years, we have seen cuts in budgets for health, education and social security in Brazil. On the other hand, we have also seen an increase in…
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ‘Co-existing with Covid-19: Moving into the post-pandemic world with the social sciences’
NEW UCL MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY BLOG SERIES In the UK, as across much of the world, we find ourselves moving slowly into a new version of reality: post-quarantine, but…
Why Can’t I Walk Your Dog? Not Accepting Help as a Coping Strategy During the Swiss Lockdown (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Martina von Arx “Et nous souhaitons ici lancer un appel à l’ensemble de la population et notamment un appel aussi aux…
#Afterlives: The Afterlife of Impossible Friendships
“My best friend from the army was a unit officer responsible for food and supplies. His name was Đura and he was from Serbia. He was two meters…
Abu Dhabi Soundmarks: Building Community in the Midst of the Pandemic, One Voice at a Time
Editor’s note: Click the links throughout the article to experience the soundscape of Abu Dhabi under COVID-19 In March 2020, I arrived in Abu Dhabi from the island…
Record early river-thaw in Siberia
The warm weather in Siberia seems to have led to an exceptionally early ice-thawing on Siberia’s major rivers. The specific of the river geography here is that all…
Preppers and the Pandemic
[no-caption] Angus Greig With the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, the SAPIENS podcast is going viral. In this first episode of season 3, SAPIENS hosts Chip Colwell and…