Urmila Mohan

Masking in Pandemic U.S. (eBook, PDF)

Beliefs and Practices of Containment and Connection

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This anthropological study explores the beliefs and practices that emerged around masking in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000774788
• Artikelnr.: 65701746

Autorenporträt

Urmila Mohan is an anthropologist of material culture and religion with a focus on bodily practices. She is associated with the Matière à Penser group, is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK, and is the founder/editor of the open-access digital journal The Jugaad Project. She has researched and theorized materiality, praxis, and aesthetics in diverse contexts including religious communities and maker groups in India, Indonesia, and the U.S.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Imaginaries, embodiment and the U.S. Covidscape
1 Practices of containment and connection
2 Sewing cloth masks and making do with uncertainty
3 Performing care and worldmaking
4 Response-ability and transformation of religious subjects
5 Conclusion: Imaginaries of masking and unmasking