학술논문

Zooming in on COVID: The Intimacies of Screens, Homes and Learning Hierarchies.
Document Type
Article
Source
Anthropology in Action. Spring2021, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p1-72. 6p.
Subject
*COVID-19
*HIERARCHIES
*COVID-19 pandemic
*LEARNING
*ANTHROPOLOGISTS
*ZOOARCHAEOLOGY
Language
ISSN
0967-201X
Abstract
This article is a result of the way in which the design of a fi rst-year anthropology course attempted to undo stern structural hierarchies between students and teachers. Instead, the participants regarded one another as fellow anthropologists undertaking ethnographic research on the university context. This article examines the intimate relations that came available to participants when the course moved from in-person to Zoom format. Participants moved into homes to document the unfurling COVID-19 crisis, (back) into intimate familial relations. But this was not the only intimacy with which participants had to grapple anthropologically. The lecture materials, too, connected themselves to things and experiences in immediacy as they arrived into homes through laptop screens. The screens themselves off ered up new insights into the lives of others -- something newly minted anthropologists had to account for as they completed the course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]