The Anthropology of Epidemics

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Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a transformational impact on social life whilst at the same time functioning as catalysts of shifts and ruptures as regards human/non-human relations. Bearing a particular mark on subject areas and questions which have recently come to shape developments in anthropological thinking, the volume brings epidemics to the forefront of anthropological debate, as an exemplary arena for social scientific study and analysis. Contents List of figures Notes on contributors Introduction: the anthropology of epidemics • Frédéric Keck, Ann H. Kelly, and Christos Lynteris 1 Simulations of epidemics: techniques of global health and neo-liberal government • Frédéric Keck and Guillaume Lachenal 2 Great anticipations • Carlo Caduff 3 What is an epidemic emergency? • Andrew Lakoff 4 Migrant birds or migrant labour? Money, mobility, and the emergence of poultry epidemics in Vietnam • Natalie Porter 5 Photography, zoonosis and epistemic suspension after the end of epidemics • Christos Lynteris 6 The multispecies infrastructure of zoonosis • Genese Marie Sodikoff 7 Complexity, anthropology, and epidemics • Hannah Brown 8 Pandemic publics: how epidemics transform social and political collectives of public health • Ruth Prince 9 Of what are epidemics the symptom? Speed, interlinkage, and infrastructure in molecular anthropology • Vinh-Kim Nguyen Index