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VIDEO DOI: https://doi.org/10.48448/ssxz-5c94

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AAA Annual Meeting 2021

November 18, 2021

Baltimore, United States

Knowing Better, Losing Even More: The 2020 Corona Virus Pandemic in Anthropological Perspective as Discussed by a Panel of Risk Disaster Anthropologist Experts

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critical anthropology

disaster

covid-19

Over the past sixty years a great deal of knowledge about every kind of cataclysm and the risks leading to them has been acquired through systematic research to which disaster anthropologists have contributed a great deal. Illuminated have been the causes of mishaps, the horrors yet commonalities within events, and the many quagmires of recovery. Since the beginning of 2020, the entire world has been engulfed a profound global calamity that has affected people of every nation, race, gender, and social class. What has unfolded during the coronavirus pandemic is not unique, quite the opposite. It has involved a pattern of features present in virtually every sort of disaster: issues of risk perception, vulnerability, chronology, disparity, division, politics, economics, governance, law, unity, contestation, religion, symbolism, and subsistence. Most of all, it has functioned as with other disasters as a revealer. Here, manifested have been issues of systemic structure and the hidden outgrowths of certain human pursuits, ranging from social to material, polity, and environmental Many of which have continued as vaccines distribution has begun. At this round table a set of expert anthropologists from the field of disaster studies discuss and analyze the many facets of the COVID 19 pandemic

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