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- Title
A chimeric being from Kyushu, Japan: Amabie's revival during Covid‐19.
- Authors
MERLI, CLAUDIA
- Abstract
This article explores how the resurgence of a forgotten chimeric figure from the Japanese history of disasters and epidemics intersects with some central ecological and political discourses in the context of the Covid‐19 pandemic, especially those associated with culinary practices, human rights and relations with other historical epidemics. Presented as a mascot but viewed as an icon of protection, this uncanny little yōkai from southern Japan in the pre‐modern Edo period addresses our lives as they are caught in a suspension of our usual temporal and spatial dimensions. A monster, a hyperobject and an art effigy of our pandemic present.
- Subjects
KYUSHU Region (Japan); YOKAI (Japanese folklore); MYTHICAL animals; COVID-19 pandemic; HUMAN rights; EFFIGIES
- Publication
Anthropology Today, 2020, Vol 36, Issue 5, p6
- ISSN
0268-540X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8322.12602