Introduction: The Challenge of the Epidemic Corpse

Lynteris, Christos; Evans, Nicholas H. A.

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“…Kenya followed suit, closing schools and suspending religious services (in churches, mosques, temples and other places of worship), weddings, funerals and Harambees (communal fundraisers). Prior research finds that social events such funerals and weddings impact contagion (Lynteris & Evans 2018). African societies are keen adherents of traditions and religion, yet the performance thereof was undoubtedly going to impact transmission.…”

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To Starve or to Catch Covid-19? Emergency Management of a Public Health Crisis and Impact on Economically Distressed Communities

Ibrahim¹,

Magu²,

Ibrahim³

2021

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When the novel coronavirus-2 (or SARS-CoV-2) extruded upon the world, it spread quickly. Africa appeared to avoid contagion; but the first case was reported in Egypt on February 14th, 2020. On March 14th 2020, Kenya recorded its first case. By then, most countries had shut down air travel, borders, and most human-to-human contact. Kenya then shut down schools, government offices, business and social gatherings. It articulated quarantine protocols and facilities at user cost and imposed a 7pm -5am curfew. Kenya has no social welfare system and makes no provisions for citizens to meet their physiological needs. For Nairobi"s four million plus population, this had deleterious impacts; the myriad small businesses and the 60 percent GDP derived from an agricultural economy also buffeted by 70-year locust infestation and seasonal flooding. Analyzing government responses to COVID-19 reveals a disconnect between elites and every-day citizens, the former unable/unwilling to synthesize the impact of shutdowns on daily wage-earners. The government"s solutions to reduce the spread of Covid-19 were also selfdefeating. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of COVID-19 in Kenya. The analysis shows significant outcomes in health, education and the economy, increased levels of poverty and malnutrition.

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To Starve or to Catch Covid-19? Emergency Management of a Public Health Crisis and Impact on Economically Distressed Communities

Ibrahim¹,

Magu²,

Ibrahim³

2021

JSSW

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Mahamari Plague: Rats, Colonial Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge in Kumaon and Garhwal, India

Lynteris

2022

Medical Anthropology

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Colonial approaches to animal and zoonotic diseases are often scrutinized in terms of their recognition or dismissal of indigenous knowledge. In this article I examine British colonial approaches to “Mahamari plague” in mid-nineteenth century Kumaon and Garhwal, in the Indian Himalayas. Discussing two key colonial medical expeditions in the region, I argue that the eventual recognition of the validity of Kumaoni and Garhwali knowledge of Mahamari and its relation to rats intensified intrusive colonial intervention on indigenous lifeways. I examine this neglected impact of the colonial recognition of indigenous knowledge and urge for approaches that place more emphasis on the practical impact of colonial epistemologies.

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Performing death in medieval Iberia: an introduction to the end of life

Silleras-Fernandez

2024

Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies

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Introduction: The Challenge of the Epidemic Corpse

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To Starve or to Catch Covid-19? Emergency Management of a Public Health Crisis and Impact on Economically Distressed Communities

To Starve or to Catch Covid-19? Emergency Management of a Public Health Crisis and Impact on Economically Distressed Communities

Mahamari Plague: Rats, Colonial Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge in Kumaon and Garhwal, India

Performing death in medieval Iberia: an introduction to the end of life

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