Articles about "pandemic"

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.

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.

Entrevistas

Anthropology under the eye of COVID-19

Interview with
  • Virginia Garcia Acosta

  • Olivia Teresa Ruiz Marrujo
  • Renée de la Torre Castellanos

O n June 16, 2020, we had a conversation with Virginia García Acosta about the importance that history and anthropology should have for the planning of public policies implemented during the covid -19 pandemic. García Acosta has a wide and recognized trajectory in the historical study of different catastrophic events.