This part of my web site is intended to accompany some of my s concerning my anthropological responses to what I name here “the Corona epoch.” It will also complement the course I teach in the Fall. This course is designed as an introduction to anthropological theory and will be organized, in the Fall 2020, as a framework for anthropological research into all forms of responses to Corona, that is to the transformation of the C19 (COVID-19) virus into a human event. The course will move through classical analytic issues about culture and social structure towards an attention to what applied anthropologists of education might contribute to public policy.

General considerations

• General warning: on authorship, responsibility, and limitations
• A message from Prof. Varenne (e-mail to students on March 24, 2020)
• on ethnography at a distance (e-mail to students on April 6, 2020)
• on Corona privilege
• on "getting caught" by Corona
• on "officals," "they..." and the speech act "we don't know"
• Seeing C19 as Corona
• Naming the event
• on translation

Blog entries

• Educating into Corona, in life (March 20, 2020)
• Ignorant school masters (March 21, 2020)
• On the speech acts making Corona ( March 28, 2020)
• Corona as 'culture' ( April 8, 2020)
• on "Corona" ( April 14, 2020)
• Modeling Corona's pathways ( April 19, 2020)
• on reponding to Corona: modeling consent and resistance ( April 24, 2020)
• on walls and the people who bump into them ( April 28, 2020)
• a message to students graduating under Corona ( May 23, 2020)
• Corona as trigger ( May 29, 2020)
• Anthropology for epidemiology? ( June 17, 2020)
• More on culturing Corona ( July 23, 2020)
• Ongoing local culturings of Corona ( August 12, 2020)
• Motivation as causes? ( September 9, 2020)
• The ages of Corona ( January 18, 2021)
• Constructing the defenses against the Virus (March 10, 2021)