How Long to Read Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic

How Long Does it Take to Read Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Robert Desjarlais

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than an edited volume with dedicated chapters, this book thus offers a new format wherein authors write several, distinct dispatches, each short and compact, allowing each writer's perspectives and stories to grow, in tandem with the pandemic itself, over the course of the book. Leaving behind the trope of the lonely anthropologist, these authors come together to form a collective of ethnographers to ask important questions, such as: What does it mean to live and write amid an unfolding and unstoppable global health and economic crisis? What are the intensities of the everyday? How do the isolated find connection in the face of catastrophe? Such first-person reflections touch on a plurality of themes brought on by the pandemic, forces and dynamics of pressing concern to many, such as contagion, safety, health inequalities, societal injustices, loss and separation, displacement, phantasmal imaginings and possibilities, the uncertain arts of calculating risk and protection, limits on movement and travel, and the biopolitical operations of sovereign powers. The various writings—spun from diverse situations and global locations—proceed within a temporal flow, starting in March 2020, with the first alerts and cases of viral infection, and then move on to various currents of caution, concern, infection, despair, hope, and connection that have unfolded since those early days. The writings then move into 2021, with events and moods associated with the global distribution of potentially effective vaccines and the promise and hope these immunizations bring. The written record of these multiform dispatches involves traces of a series of lives, as the authors of those lives tried to make do, and write, in trying times. A timely ethnography of an event that has changed all our lives, this book is critical reading for students and researchers of medical anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, contemporary anthropological theory, and ethnographic writing.

How long is Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Robert Desjarlais is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic aloud.

What Reading Level is Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

Where Can I Buy Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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