Masking in Pandemic U.S.: Beliefs and Practices of Containment and Connection Mohan Urmila
Masking in Pandemic U.S.: Beliefs and Practices of Containment and Connection Mohan Urmila This anthropological study explores the beliefs and practices that emerged around masking in the U.S.…
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Masking in Pandemic U.S.: Beliefs and Practices of Containment and Connection Mohan Urmila
This anthropological study explores the beliefs and practices that emerged around masking in the U.S. Americans responded to this illness as unique subjects navigating the flux of social and corporeal boundaries, supporting certain beliefs and acting to shape them as compelling realities. during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Contrasting approaches to practices marked the limits and possibilities of imaginaries, signaling differences and similarities between groups, and how actions could be passageways between people and possibilities. Debates over health and safety mandates indicated that responses were fractured with varied subjectivities in play-people lived in different worlds and bodies were central in conflicts over breathing, masking and social distancing. During a time of uncertainty and loss, the "efficacious intimacy" of bodies and materials embedded beliefs, values, and emotions