September 2020

Volume 12 | Number 2 | September 2020 AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AirwaysMary Louise Pratt Making Meat in the Time of COVID-19Donald D. Stull Working Through the Pandemic: What Crises Tell Us About EconomicsDavid Griffith The Habitus of Agglomeration: Crowding and (Non) Compliance in an Indian CityKaren Coelho and Mathangi Krishnamurthy Where Have All […]

Disability and Dismantling: Four Reflections in a Time of COVID-19

Rijul Kochhar To cite this article: Rijul Kochhar (2020) Disability and Dismantling: Four Reflections in a Time of COVID-19, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 73-75, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1761213 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2020.1761213 Four thought formations coalesce in my mind as I witness the unfolding CO- VID-19 pandemic. My personal experience of living with a disability and […]

It’s All Free Speech Until Someone Dies in a Pandemic

Carolyn M. Rouse To cite this article: Carolyn M. Rouse (2020) It’s All Free Speech Until Someone Dies in a Pandemic, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 66-72, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1761212 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2020.1761212 As teens, at the suggestion of something risky or edgy, my friends and I would do our best impersonation of a scolding […]

Are We in the Same Boat? Ethnographic Lessons of Sheltering in Place from International Seafarers and Algerian Harraga in the Age of Global Pandemic

Stephanie Love & Liang Wu To cite this article: Stephanie Love & Liang Wu (2020) Are We in the Same Boat? Ethnographic Lessons of Sheltering in Place from International Seafarers and Algerian Harraga in the Age of Global Pandemic, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 55-65, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1761211 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2020.1761211 As the pandemic of […]

Reconstituting China in a Time of Pandemic

Eric S. Henry To cite this article: Eric S. Henry (2020) Reconstituting China in a Time of Pandemic, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 50-54, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1761210 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2020.1761210 COVID-19 has rapidly reconfigured the lives of people around the world in away that has deconstituted many of our previously familiar social relations. We have […]

COVID-19 Dispatches from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Tram Luong To cite this article: Tram Luong (2020) COVID-19 Dispatches from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 45-49, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1761209 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2020.1761209 March 2, 2020, could have been just another day in Ho Chi Minh City, the economic powerhouse of Vietnam, except it was not. The symbolic skyscraper […]

Editor’s Note

The introduction to this special issue, An Anthropology of the COVID-19 Pandemic, highlights the collective nature of its production. However, two especially important participants in all of this deserve special mention. Maria D. Vesperi and Emily Martin were so central to this project that I would be remiss if I did not comment here on […]

An Anthropology of the Handshake

Bjarke Oxlund To cite this article: Bjarke Oxlund (2020) An Anthropology of the Handshake, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 39-44, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1761216 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2020.1761216 In addition to its mounting health and financial consequences, the current COVID-19 crisis may also fundamentally alter one of the most common human gestures: the handshake. The Shaky Future […]

An Anthropology of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Rylan Higgins, Emily Martin and Maria D. Vesperi To cite this article: Rylan Higgins, Emily Martin & Maria D. Vesperi (2020) An Anthropology of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 2-6, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1760627 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2020.1760627 Scholars from many disciplines, including anthropology, recognize a new epoch related to human impact on the […]

Aging, Vulnerability and Questions of Care in the Time of COVID-19

Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin & Marcia C. Inhorn To cite this article: Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin & Marcia C. Inhorn (2020) Aging, Vulnerability and Questions of Care in the Time of COVID-19, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 17-23, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1760633 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2020.1760633 The 21st century, as we know it, has experienced its fair […]