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- Title
From the Bubble to the Hearth: Social Co‐Presence in the Era of COVID‐19 in Asmat, Indonesian Papua.
- Authors
Powell Davies, Tom
- Abstract
For Asmat people in Indonesian Papua - hunter gatherers who live in and around approximately 220 village settlements in the mangrove swamps of Papua's coastal and lowland southwest - the spatio-temporal organization of social co-presence is a key problematic of everyday life. Indigenous approaches to social distancing In the Sawa Erma region of Asmat in which I have conducted fieldwork, the local response to the threat of pandemic spread has pivoted around indigenous approaches to the spatio-temporal organization of social co-presence. Although it is unthinkable to isolate people singly, Asmat kinship seems to offer a good base for "social distancing" at the level of kin groups, and from the point of view of land ownership and food gathering patterns. Asmat people from Sa village, where I conducted fieldwork, timed the inter-clan work of renovating their village feast house so that it coincided with the national holiday.
- Subjects
NEW Guinea (Island); COVID-19; INDONESIANS; COVID-19 pandemic; SOCIAL distancing
- Publication
Oceania, 2020, Vol 90, p14
- ISSN
0029-8077
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ocea.5259