Speed and acceleration in cultural anthropology (introduction to the special theme)
The article presents the journal’s special theme ‘Speed and acceleration in cultural anthropology’. It gives a glimpse of some of the contributions made to the topic by the authors, who have written extensively on the anthropology of movement, modernity and globalisation. Most of the articles in this section were written during the COVID-19 pandemic and reflect the global lockdown, slowdown, and other measures taken by the governments worldwide to stop the spread of the virus.
Keywords
антропологическая скорость, антропология движения, пандемия, COVID-19, акселерация, экспериментальная антропология, anthropological speed, anthropology of movement, pandemic, COVID-19, acceleration, experimental anthropologyAuthors
Name | Organization | |
Nikitin Maksim A. | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences | proisel@gmail.com |
References

Speed and acceleration in cultural anthropology (introduction to the special theme) | Sibirskie Istoricheskie Issledovaniia – Siberian Historical Research. 2020. № 2. DOI: 10.17223/2312461X/28/2