Without coming close and from inside our homes

notes on anthropology, ethnography and its crafts in times of social isolation

Abstract

In this brief article I comment how, despite paradigmatic changes in the concept of anthropological fieldwork, the context of social isolation during the covid-19 pandemic rises questions on the conduction of anthropological craft, changing plans, spaces and temporalities of the research, as well as bringing institutional and personal challenges to the researchers. I sign that the demands of the persons with which we carry on our researchers have been a source of action to anthropologists in such context, as well as the several debate forums stablished or attracted to the pandemic issue, offering situated gazes from previous research fields. Lastly, I mention suggestions to ethnography during the isolation offered by Daniel Miller and present the initiative I am carrying on with my Social Sciences students from UFAC, besides the possibility of a dialogical work with social actors that are still inside our fields and/or engaged on facing the pandemic, with whom is possible to stablish rich collaborations.