The Peruvian Amazon is being hard-hit by the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. Among the most affected groups are the indigenous peoples, in particular the elderly, who in some cases may be the last speakers of the…
The research focuses on the migration of people who have moved from the urban centres to rural communities as a result of unemployment and physical, social and economic distress caused by the current pandemic. This…
Amy Penfield The first confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the UK were reported on January 29th 2020. In the early days it spread rapidly around Europe, but it was a little while before it reached South America. Not long…
Anthropologists and other researchers studying reproductive issues in Latin America have been alarmed by the effects of the pandemic on their interlocutors. Our research on abortion in Brazil affords some insights into…