Anthropological analysis
This class has played out during an unprecedented time amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic. Reflect on our course concepts and themes, and on the current world events we see ourselves in. Please choose three to four (3-4) concepts from the following list and discuss how each one can be related to the COVID-19 crisis. You can approach this either as reflecting on how the concept helps us understand COVID-19, or how COVID-19 helps illuminate the significance of the concept. Either way, be sure youve defined the concept in your own terms.
Options :
false consciousness
double binds
medical pluralism
emotion vs economics as motivator
mana
agency
intersectionality
kinship disease
cultural technology
reifying culture (or, culturalist accounts)
importance of history
denaturalizing inequality
liminality
embodied protest repertoires
frames of seeing
thin description