Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2022.2119753
N. Richards, M. Krawczyk
the COVID-19 global pandemic engendered a new social order, the ultimate shape and permanence of which is still unknown. What is known is that in the short term, experiences of caregiving and dying were profoundly reshaped in reaction to this new contagious threat and the effects of that reshaping are still being felt. though these changes have been unprecedented, foundational anthropology theories continue to have relevance and can aid understanding. Our own expertise is in researching and theorizing how societies organize death and dying — their “death systems” 1 — and the cultural beliefs that emerge to make sense of people’s experiences. Here, we summarize some classic anthropological theories that can contribute to our understanding of how dying, and caring for the dying, was affected during this pandemic. even after the global rollout of vaccines, leading to a decrease in COVID-19-related mortality, we continued to see different countries struggle with how best to care for those with the disease, how to “count” those who died and how to minimize risk through regulating the movement of bodies locally and internationally. We believe that a postpandemic world will continue to contain similar or novel infectious disease outbreaks, either regionally or globally, and that the classic theories we outline here can help us to navigate the future terrain of end-of-life care in the Global North.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2022.2119774
G. A. Clark
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2022.2119788
Zuzana Terry
From May 2020 to June 2021, I did a year-long study at the youth drama club in the capital of the Czech republic, Prague. I used participant observation methods at the rehearsals and performances, and I conducted 10 semistructured, in-person interviews with the youth actors and two with their teachers. the interviews were held during the first part of the research. In October 2020 I was forced to switch to remote participation because of COVID-19 restrictions. the online observation was harder; the conversations were flatter, in part because they were confined to one-on-one interactions rather than group discussions. I prolonged the project because these remote interactions were less productive. Fortunately, I had already established connections with the youth theater. I knew the club and the director, adam, even before my ethnographic research because my daughter went there. I had always wondered what she felt among those children with parents from all over the world. I wondered if the other kids who attended had the same feelings. My daughter is from a mixed Czech/english family, but I was born and have spent most of my life in Prague. I would say that I am “Czech as a log,” as the proverb goes. However, my daughter would never say she is Czech, but neither would she describe herself as english. she might identify herself as european if she had to. the children of migrants from countries such as the united states or the united Kingdom are envied in Czechia. they are seen as having privileges that are specific to them; they have connections to other countries and they travel there frequently. Privilege, according to Peggy McIntosh,1 is an unearned advantage — not received due to individual talent or special effort. Instead, it involves rights or entitlements related to a preferred status or rank, benefiting the recipient and excluding others. Privileged persons might not realize their privilege. Indeed, the anglophone teens in the Czech republic have certain attributes of privilege; one is that english as their mother tongue is a global lingua franca; anglophone migrants speak the language as natives. according to Cecilia serra, in many parts of the world where english is not the first language, knowledge of english is very often linked to professional success as
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2022.2123197
A. Waterston
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2022.2117976
M. Blakey
I first worked at the smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in 1968. It was a project I designed on the dental pathology and masticatory musculature of 50 Hawiku and suruque skulls, under the kind supervision of biological anthropologist Donald Ortner. I was 15 years old and attending Larry angel’s and Lucille st. Hoyme’s summer paleopathology seminar at the museum. One could still smell smoke and mold wafting from riot-torn 7th street after Martin Luther King’s murder only a couple of months before. I was the only african american and the youngest person in the seminar, a situation to which I had already become accustomed as a member of the Maryland archaeological society.1
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2022.2123194
Krishantha Fedricks, F. Haniffa, Anushka Kahandagamage, Chulani Kodikara, K. Kumarasinghe, J. Spencer
In the opening months of 2022, sri Lanka found itself plunged into a profound economic and political crisis. spiraling inflation and drastic shortage of foreign currency made everyday life almost unendurable for all sections of sri Lankan society. three-wheeler drivers waited in line for hours for ever scarcer supplies of fuel. Households suffered long daily power cuts. the poor struggled to feed their families. as the economic situation worsened, people responded with a wave of ever more imaginative and confident protests, directed at the government but especially at the president, Gotabaya rajapaksa, and his family, which has dominated the last two decades of sri Lankan politics. the crisis can be traced to particular economic choices made by the country’s leaders as well as the unequal determinants of global trade and financialization. the immediate causes of the crisis lie in the accumulation of unsustainable levels of sovereign debt — a problem soon to be felt more widely across the global south. However, the personalistic focus of the protests fell on the rajapaksa ruling family for good reason. Mahinda rajapaksa served as president from 2005 to 2015. He combined strategic appeals to majoritarian sinhala Buddhist nationalism, with high-visibility vanity projects. He also inserted family members into positions of authority, accompanied by accusations of graft and corruption. His brother, Gotabaya rajapaksa, defense secretary when the decades-long ethnic war was “won,” was elected president in late 2019. this followed four years of internal squabbles among the opposition coalition that had replaced the rajapaksas in 2015. Gotabaya presented himself as a non-politician, a good administrator with a technocratic team who would “get things done” — in contrast to the self-serving and incompetent politicians he would replace. In practice, the opposite happened. the new president combined political incompetence with spectacular errors of judgment, like the sudden banning of imported fertilizer in 2021, which crippled much of the country’s agricultural
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2022.2123209
Carole McGranahan
{"title":"Flash Ethnography: Writing the World, in Brief","authors":"Carole McGranahan","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2123209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2123209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47081229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2022.2123192
R. Sewell
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2022.2119765
M. Sharma
researchers, activists and artists have demonstrated the devastating intergenerational effects of gun violence, among them trauma and disability/debilitation among survivors and kin of persons shot or killed. Following in the footsteps of work done by Jodi rios,1 Keona ervin2 and Barbara ransby,3 I conducted fieldwork in st. Louis, Missouri, between March 2018 and October 2019 on organizational forms, political subjectivities and transformative processes led by a Black-led coalition of organizations, actors and movements. I volunteered for the campaign “Close the Workhouse” and for the Bail Project. During this time, I attended protests, meetings among activists, public events, informal get-togethers, city hall interventions and, in 2020, a range of online events developed by a Black-led coalition of organizers in st. Louis. although the focus of my research was not gun violence, the issue appeared prominently throughout the time I spent in the st. Louis area. Contrary to the near-exclusive emphasis on mass shootings I found in national media coverage, I became interested in how Black organizers in st. Louis had been working to address broader problems of violence and reframe the debate to foreground the problems facing their neighborhoods, thereby providing an anti-racist intervention for how the issue of gun violence and its attendant structural conditions were discussed, analyzed and ultimately addressed.
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