Funding Anthropological Research in the Age of Covid-19
Danilyn Rutherford
On Monday, March 9, 2020 I was on my way to SFO to catch a red eye to New York, where I was scheduled to spend the month, when I [...]
Funding Anthropological Research in the Age of Covid-19
Covid-19 and Student-Focused Concerns: Threats and Possibilities Introduction
Veena Das and Naveeda Khan
The September 11 attacks in 2001 marked an important turning point in the life of universities in the United States and affected the whole project of knowledge production in several [...]
The 25th Anniversary of “On Cultural Anesthesia: From Desert Storm to Rodney King”
by John F. Collins and Allen Feldman AES is pleased to share this interview celebrating our 25th anniversary American Ethnologist article from 1994. John F. Collins, professor of anthropology at Queens College and [...]
India | “Humans are like birds”: On Leaving the Field in Times of Crisis
Silvia Pergetti
Delhi. Friday, March 20, 5.36pm. The sound of a plane. It takes me back to rural Bengal, to the start of my fieldwork, when I would sit on people’s veranda [...]
Honduras, New York | Sirens and Birds and Death: On -Not- Writing A Dissertation During a Pandemic
Amelia Frank-Vitale
“It turns out, writing a dissertation is a lot like being in quarantine!” I joke, frequently, when people ask how I’m doing. But it’s not true. Not exactly. Although I’ve [...]
Pakistan | Photographing the Virus: Visuality, Publics, and Ethnography during Covid-19
Zehra Husain
In the fall of 2019, I began my study of the myriad ways in which one of Pakistan’s commercial port city Karachi’s oldest and largest working class neighborhoods, Lyari Town, [...]
Brazil | “We are in a battlefield”- and I Went Online to Make an Ethnography of Capitalism in Crisis
Ana Flávia Bádue
I moved to Piracicaba, a town in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in November 2019 to study how a network of entrepreneurs, financial investor, corporate executives, and agricultural producers [...]
Cambodia | Everything Isn’t Fine: Chronic Illness and Maintaining the Status Quo in the Time of Covid-19
Jennifer A. Zelnick
I have spent the past year actively trying to convince myself that I am not sick. This is my attempt to try to reconcile feeling fine or mostly fine, with [...]
Michigan | Your Money or Your Life: The Virus, the Economy, and the Trolley Problem
Webb Keane
As the USA moved to stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of covid-19, some conservatives objected to the policies on the grounds that they would harm the economy. In March, [...]
Anthropology and Epidemics, a Quarantine Reading List
Grace A. Carey
The global COVID-19 pandemic is ushering in what's being called a "new normal" leaving us with questions about what's in store as stay-at-home orders continue and reopening processes begin. In [...]
