Articles about "covid-19"

Realidades socioculturales

Notes on conspiracy theories about The reptilians and other beliefs in times of covid-19. A look from the implausible imaginaries in castoridian key.

  • Enriqueta Lerma Rodríguez

A sociological reflection is offered on the origin, meaning and scope of implausible conspiracy theories in the context of the emergence of covid-19. The analytical proposal of Cornelius Castoriadis' social imaginaries is used to problematize the difference between "plausible imaginaries": the origin of covid as a bacteriological weapon, and "implausible imaginaries": the extraterrestrial origin of covid, in order to interpret how it has been possible the increase of certain beliefs, among others, in reptilians, illuminati and extraterrestrials, who are accused of trying to dominate the world.

Reseñas críticas

Reptilians and other beliefs in covid-19 times: a written ethnography in Chiapas.

Enriqueta Lerma RodríguezCoordinación de Humanidades, Dirección General de Divulgación de las Humanidades, Centro de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias sobre Chiapas y la Frontera Sur, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, 289 pp.

Religion, conspiracy theories and pandemic in southern Mexico

  • Alejandro Rodríguez López

The Reptilians is an ethnographic study that explores in detail how the pandemic intensified the circulation of explanations based on complex narratives that either distanced or articulated religious beliefs, scientific information and intergalactic conspiracies, all seen from the crucible of contemporary global culture, which mobilizes multiple symbolic goods through digital communication channels.

EncArtes multimedia

Altars for the Dead: The Changing Heritage of a Mexican Tradition

https://youtu.be/prN7997stxs

  • Cristina Gutierrez Zuniga
  • Renée de la Torre Castellanos

The video is the result of an investigation into the effects, adaptations and displacements experienced by the Day of the Dead tradition in Mexico during the month of November of the first year of the covid-19 pandemic. By this time, public Day of the Dead ceremonies valued as intangible national heritage had been cancelled. We undertook an online survey to find out what would be the effects of isolation on the Day of the Dead tradition: would the tradition cease or would it shift or mutate to new uses, places and expressions? And what new creative uses of the tradition would emerge and in what new media would it be carried out? With the data obtained from 720 questionnaires and 280 photographs received from the altars of the dead, we made a video to explain the spatial displacements, the aesthetic changes and the new senses with which the practice of this ancestral Mexican tradition was renewed.

Discrepancias

Pandemic, Year 2. Different Experiences, Shared Dilemmas and Multiple Reflections from Medical Anthropology Around Covid 19

  • Mark Nichter
  • Rosa Maria Osorio
  • Sahra Gibbon

  • moderator Lina Rosa Berrio
  • moderator Paola Maria Sesia

We have invited three specialists from the field of medical anthropology to reflect on their respective experiences and knowledge of Mexico, Great Britain, the United States and India, all of them countries deeply affected by the pandemic, even if in very different ways, and whose management of the pandemic has been oriented in different directions. This allows us to contrast the diversity of official responses to the health and economic crisis.