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17
Jun
2020

Interactional Rituals: Covidiotism

Before we venture into a detailed analysis of interactional rituals and distance keeping, an interesting phenomenon worth considering is ‘covidiotism’ and its relationship with interactional rituals....
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10
Jun
2020

Interactional Rituals: The typology of...

When we examine the relationship between interactional rituals and social distancing, we need to ask ourselves what type of ritual we are dealing with. Dániel Kádár (2013) distinguished 4 types of...
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10
Jun
2020

Interactional Rituals: COVID-19 – The Historical...

Why are interactional rituals such an integral part of our daily lives? This is a particularly interesting question and one which is worth investigating. Rituals have existed since the dawn of humanity...
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3
Jun
2020

Introduction: What are Rituals?

Successful social distancing is, in our view, of equal importance in the fight against the coronavirus as the development of a vaccine. It raises difficulties from both an academic and a practical point...
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27
May
2020

Rapid ethnographies in a changing world

The COVID-19 pandemic that has shaken our globe to its core has highlighted the need for rapid, responsive and relevant research, now more than ever. The field of rapid research is not new and different...
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22
May
2020

Language differences as shibboleths in a pandemic

In times of crisis, when people experience fear, they often express hostility toward others. They discriminate against people who look like “enemies”. The well-known and shameful internment of Japanese-Americans...
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8
May
2020

“The ‘Invisible Enemy’: Language, Trump, and...

MIt’s remarkable how Trump can make an unprecedented situation seem so familiar by cranking it through the language grinder he’s been using all along. Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, we have...
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16
Dec
2019

Make Strange Familiar Evidence

In this book, Cathy Willermet and Sang-Hee Lee reflect that the “steadfast obsession with the scientific approach that characterized biological anthropology, like no other subfield in American anth...
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