‘What is anthropology good for?’ Anthropologists working in public health interstices

So the present is a silent spring of sorts.Especially for the elderly, keepers of collective memory, sacrificed for those who are clearing the forest to make way for the future.Sacrificed along with refugees, the homeless and those in faraway places whose memories we wish not to share.Events in remote places are too easily imputed to the local situation.So we must look for ways to become responsible without the burden of guilt (Rose 2004).And not try to save the world when 'saving' and 'the world' are miserable metaphors (Solnit 2016).I take from anthropology that it is sensitive to memory and wants its writing to be contagious.Not all contagion is bad.Curiosity is contagion.Enlarging the scope of what our memories may hold as moral beings

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