Curare Corona Diaries

When the World Health Organization classified the spread of the coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2 as a pandemic in March 2020, the Curare editorial team sent out a call for (auto-)ethnographic diaries via various mailing lists (see full call in the Introduction to the Special Issue). We hoped for a handful of “correspondents” who would write diaries in the strict Malinowskian sense of the word to record the unfolding pandemic times on a daily basis. The number of participants exceeded by far our expectations. Having been overwhelmed by the large response, we were unable to edit the dozens of diary entries we received daily. The large quantity and variable length of the entries led us to decide to publish all the diaries of those authors who agreed to it on boasblogs.org, where all the diaries are freely available in full length. The 2020 and the 2021 issues of Curare are both devoted to our collective diary project. We asked selected authors to revisit parts of their diaries and to comment on individual aspects from an analytical, anthropological perspective.

Corona Diaries I. Curare 43 (2020) 1–4. Thematic Focus ed by KATRIN AMELANG, CLEMENS EISENMANN, JANINA KEHR, HELMAR KURZ, MIRKO UHLIG & EHLER VOSS .

Corona Diaries II. Curare 44 (2021) 1–4. Thematic Focus ed by KATRIN AMELANG, CLEMENS EISENMANN, JANINA KEHR, HELMAR KURZ, MIRKO UHLIG & EHLER VOSS .