How COVID-19 makes us use our bodies differently
COVID-19 has prompted a renewed awareness of how we use our bodies under “normal” circumstances. COVID-19 is also demanding that we change our bodily behaviors to prevent the…
Tag: COVID-19
Equine PPID Connectivities and Covid-19: 2020 Journal Reflections
KIM CROWDER March 8th. I book a routine vet visit for my geriatric rescue pony’s annual vaccinations and hormone-monitoring test. March 22nd. In line with pandemic protocols the…
Video conferencing and the limits of representability
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Christian Elliott, an undergraduate senior majoring in cultural anthropology at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Video conferencing and the limits of re…
“In Beijing They Eat Snakes And Then Pig Out”: Xenophobia, Geopolitics, and the Role of the Italian Far-Right in Covid-19 Constructions of China
FRANCESCO FLORIS Well before the high rate of infections grew and lay citizens became affected by COVID-19 in Italy, fear, news from China, fake news, and the statements…
Very, very mild: Covid-19 symptoms and illness classification by Felicity Callard
Mild ‘[A] large portion won’t notice that they have it’. ‘Another substantial portion will have very, very mild symptoms’. ‘A small portion will have a very significant reaction’.…
What’s in a Mask?
In early March 2020, groups of professional tailors and hobbyists formed to make high quality facsimiles of surgical masks to remedy a shortfall in personal protective equipment (PPE)…
Fieldwork and the Nation Under Threat: Rethinking Critique, Recentering Relationships
by Josh Babcock CNN’s Fareed Zakaria interviews Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in a segment titled, “What the U.S. can learn from Singapore on Covid,” March 30,…
Why do we talk about Eurobonds? Or: The Big Division in the Euro Area
INGA AENNE FELDMANN The corona virus health crisis sent many countries of the world in a lock down to protect their elderly and vulnerable from severe illness and…
Not on the Beach, or Death in Bondi? by Warwick Anderson
Sydney’s Bondi Beach in January 2012. Photo: Alex Proimos As sometimes happens in Sydney in late March, toward the end of summer, that particular Friday was brilliantly hot…
A Lesson In Composure: Learning From Migrants In Times Of Covid-19
CHRISTIAN UNGRUHE The Covid-19 pandemic teaches a number of painful lessons. Many people, persistently deprived from access to adequate health care, housing, education or jobs, pay a devastating…
The Temporal Politics of Ethnography, Heritability, and Contagion in Tanzania During Covid-19
Editor’s note: This post is the fourth in our five-part series “COVID-19: Views from the Field.” Click here to read an introduction written by series organizer Rebekah Ciribassi.…
Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19 – Issue 1 by Eugene Raikhel
Covering mid-April – May 4 In an effort to highlight the vital perspectives of medical anthropology and neighboring disciplines, as well as to help manage the volume of…
“Getting Closer” Through Art: Facebook and Turning to Art in The Time of Covid-19
MANUELA PELLEGRINO How to feel close when physically distant? This is, of course, not a new dilemma in itself; indeed, people who live far from their loved ones…
In The Midst Of COVID 19, The Search For The Missing In Mexico Continues
CAMILA RUIZ SEGOVIA Night had fallen at the coastal state of Veracruz, Mexico, when a group of men kidnapped Luis Guillermo, 29. He was an independent businessman by…
The Impoverishment of the COVID Future
From Wikimedia Commons As I complete this essay, the quarantine imposed on Baltimore stretches into its second month, and I continue teaching online amid terror and despair.&nbs…
Storbykonferansen 2020 ønsker forslag til sesjoner
Er det noe 2020 har lært oss, er det hvor raskt og drastisk byene våre kan endres. Da covid-19-pandemien kom til Norge opplevde vi en nedstenging av byene…
Experiencing Corona Virus in the Andes
LUCIA STAVIG A mix of huaynos, cumbia, and bird song still greet the sun in the Andean community in which I am riding out the month-long quarantine. At…
The Bubble: A New Medical and Public Health Vocabulary For COVID-19 Times by Nayantara Sheoran Appleton
Bubble, bubble, Mum, Mum, give bubble! The task of keeping a two-year-old busy at home during a national ‘Level 4’ lockdown to prevent the spread of global virus,…
Clean in Times of Covid-19: on Hygiene and Pollution by Mandy de Wilde
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, air pollution and greenhouse emissions decrease, or so news reports say. The satellite images of China in lockdown provided a first striking example. In…
The New Public Care: Seeking Coronavirus Truth through Networked Publics
MAGDALENA GÓRALSKA Before the pandemic begun the usual turn of events was like that: Beata, an accountant from a mid-size town in Poland has a health problem, or…
What Does Toilet Paper Teach Us about Our Defecation Habits? by Bicram Rijal
Illustration by Bicram Rijal An Australian photographer embarks on a jungle expedition in search of a “critically endangered species.” With a Canon camera on his shoulder and a…
Africa, Laboratory Equipment and COVID-19 Response by Louise Bezuidenhout
As the world struggles to address the COVID-19 crisis, attention increasingly turns to laboratories and the crucial role that they play in diagnostics and research. A rising number…
Virginia’s story: How the COVID-19 crisis can help us think about older adults who live in perennial abandonment by Chiappori Magdalena Zegarra
V: Oh sweetie, don’t leave me. Magdalena: I have to go home now. But on Monday, I can bring you the Coca-Cola you asked me for. V: I’m…
The Logic of ‘Advanced Deployment’ to Tackle COVID-19 in Taiwan
YI-CHENG WU I was planning to return to the UK to complete my PhD study before the coronavirus swept Europe. The Taiwanese government’s travel ban on medical personnel…