| Title: |
Spoiled by COVID-19: Geontology, Pathogenesis, and Resistance among the Akawaio |
| Authors: |
Andrew Whitaker, J; G. Cooper, D |
| Publisher Information: |
Oxford Anthropology |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Collection: |
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) |
| Description: |
This article examines notions of disease and geontology among the Akawaio people of Guyana within the context of COVID-19. It begins with an ethnographic encounter that one of the authors experienced at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and examines its ramifications through an in-depth analysis of Akawaio concepts concerning pathogenesis in contexts of malevolent human and other-than-human agency, as well as Akawaio histories of resisting encroachments and predations by Europeans and other outsiders in the broader region. Centred around local notions of ‘spoiling’ through sorcery-related interventions or infractions against certain ethical norms, the article considers ontologies that framed and contextualised the COVID-19 pandemic for many Akawaio people in the Upper Mazaruni River basin of Guyana. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://doi.org/10.82256/jaso.v17i1.408 |
| DOI: |
10.82256/jaso.v17i1.408 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.82256/jaso.v17i1.408; https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:23367301-130c-43f7-a95a-1af05289b5f5 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.21833B2 |
| Database: |
BASE |