Viral Loads:
Anthropologies
of urgency in
the time of Covid-19

Writings on the Pandemic

Covid Responses

A growing collection of articles, essays, and blogs on Covid 19
from Lenore Manderson, her colleagues, and students.

Books, Articles

and Online Writings
Books

Lenore Manderson, Nancy J. Burke, & Ayo Wahlberg, 2021.

Viral Loads: Anthropologies of urgency in the time of Covid-19

https://www.lenoremanderson.com/viral-loads

Viral Loads

Articles / Online

Manderson, L. and Levine, S. 2020.

COVID-19, risk, fear, and fall-out. Medical Anthropology 39, 5:  367-370.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2020.1746301

Manderson, L. and Wahlberg, A. 2020.

Chronic living in a communicable world. Medical Anthropology 39, 5: 428-439.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2020.1761352

Sambala, E.Z., Manderson, L. and Cooper, S. 2020.

“Can the philosophy of ubuntu help provide a way to face health crises? The Conversation Africa, April 29.

https://theconversation.com/can-the-philosophy-of-ubuntu-help-provide-a-way-to-face-health-crises-135997

Levine, S. and Manderson, L. 2020.

The militarisation of the COVID-19 response in South Africa. #Witnessing Corona, August 24.

https://boasblogs.org/witnessingcorona/the-militarisation-of-the-covid-19-response-in-south-africa/

Manderson, L. and Levine, S. 2020.
Ageing, care, and isolation in the time of COVID-19. Anthropology and Aging 41, 2: 132-140.

http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/article/view/314/353

Team, V. and Manderson, L. 2020.

How COVID-19 Reveals Structures of Vulnerability. Medical Anthropology 39, 8: 671-674.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01459740.2020.1830281

Hinchliffe, S., Manderson, L. and Moore, M. 2021.

Public health and (un)healthy planetary publics after COVID-19. Lancet Planetary Health.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00050-4/fulltext

Levine, S. and Manderson, L. 2021. 

Proxemics, COVID-19 and the ethics of care in South Africa.
Colloquy on COVID-19, ed. Strong, R.,  Trnka, S. and Wynn, L.L. Cultural Anthropology 36,3: 391-399.

https://doi.org/10.14506/ca36.3.06

Student Blogs

My 2020 Medical Anthropology class:

https://medanthucl.com/2020/04/10/how-a-pandemic-shapes-the-city-ethnographic-voices-from-south-africa/

and my 2021 Medical anthropology class:

https://medanthucl.com/2021/06/01/covid-19-and-vaccine-inequalities-in-south-africa-the-second-year/