Overview
- Offers a new format wherein authors write distinct, compact dispatches, allowing each writer's perspectives
- Forms a collective of ethnographers to ask important questions
- Provides critical reading for students and researchers of medical anthropology and sociocultural anthropology
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology (PSLA)
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About this book
Such first-person reflections touch on a plurality of themes brought on by the pandemic, forces and dynamics of pressing concern to many, such as contagion, safety, health inequalities, societal injustices, loss and separation, displacement, phantasmal imaginings and possibilities, the uncertain arts of calculating risk and protection, limits on movement and travel, and the biopolitical operations of sovereign powers. The various writings—spun from diverse situations and global locations—proceed within a temporal flow, starting in March 2020, with the first alerts and cases of viral infection, and then move on to various currents of caution, concern, infection, despair, hope, and connection that have unfolded since those early days. The writings then move into 2021, with events and moods associated with the global distribution of potentially effective vaccines and the promise and hope these immunizations bring. The written record of these multiform dispatches involves traces of a series of lives, as the authors of those lives tried to make do, and write, in trying times.
A timely ethnography of an event that has changed all our lives, this book is critical reading for students and researchers of medical anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, contemporary anthropological theory, and ethnographic writing.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Sabina M. Perrino is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University, USA.
Joshua Reno is Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University, USA.
Nicholas Bartlett is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University, USA.
Aurora Donzelli is Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College, USA, and the University of Bologna, Italy.
Margaux Fitoussi is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Columbia University, USA.
Alexa Hagerty is Associate Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, UK, and a Senior Researcher in JUST AI network of the Ada Lovelace Institute, UK.
Rafadi Hakim is a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago, USA.
Parthiban Muniandy is a faculty member of Sociology at Sarah Lawrence College, USA.
Emily Ng is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Robert Desjarlais, Sabina M. Perrino, Joshua O. Reno, Nicholas Bartlett, Aurora Donzelli, Margaux Fitoussi, Alexa Hagerty, Rafadi Hakim, Parthiban Muniandy, … Emily Ng
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19193-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19192-3Published: 31 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19195-4Published: 01 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19193-0Published: 30 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-4218
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4226
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 191
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethnography, Social Anthropology, Anthropology, Medical Anthropology