As stars around the world petition Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to protect Indigenous peoples from the COVID-19 pandemic, anthropologists debate whether the call for action reproduces longstanding racist claims.
Archaeological research is unearthing Venice’s quarantine history to illuminate how the Italian city created a vast public health response 700 years ago and helped lay the modern foundation for coping with pandemics.
The coronavirus pandemic is robbing some people of a chance to come together to mourn: a practice deeply embedded in many animal species.
Anthropologists often study people who have died. Can the field provide context and comfort during a pandemic?
One of the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis is taking serious action against a threat that seems so abstract and intangible.
The coronavirus has swept away a generation of wisdom-keepers, WWII survivors, storytellers, parents, and grandparents in Bergamo, Italy. An anthropologist mourns with her community—the hardest hit in the country—and asks all of us the most difficult questions of this pandemic.
