The global pandemic is generating a great deal of thinking among scholars broadly interested in the social and cultural implications of Covid-19. In order to provide a forum for early observations and reflections on the pandemic as it unfolds, the editors of Cultural Anthropology—Christopher Nelson, Heather Paxson, and Brad Weiss—are editing an open-ended collection on the global pandemic.

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The Comfort of Things? A Meditation from Coronaland

The Comfort of Things? A Meditation from Coronaland

About a decade ago, Daniel Miller (2008) published an ethnography of objects in a London neighborhood, entitling it The Comfort of Things. I leafed through it (... More

Coming Clean

Coming Clean

The first time I learned to wash my hands “properly” was nearly seven years ago: I was twenty-six.1 It was in an NGO in Delhi, India, one of the organizations i... More

Virtual Virulence and Metabolic Life

Virtual Virulence and Metabolic Life

In early February 2020, three days after the first Covid-19 case was detected in India, a message went viral on social media. “BOILER CHICKEN HAS BEEN FOUND TO ... More

Seeing Indigenous Land Struggles in the “Multispecies Cloud” of Covid-19

Seeing Indigenous Land Struggles in the “Multispecies Cloud” of Covid-19

Amid ongoing debates over where and how Covid-19 emerged, a “multispecies cloud” of zoonotic speculation has gathered over the wildlife markets of Wuhan in cent... More