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   * Issue 1: Witnessing
   * Issue 2: Worldviews
   * Issue 3: Relationships
   * Issue 4: Time
   * Issue 5: Movement
   * Issue 6: Power
   * Issue 7: Water
   * Issue 8: Best of Culturally Modified
   * Issue 9: Change*
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ISSUE 9: CHANGE*

Change is good. But mostly if it’s at the right time, in the right place, and at
the right dose. Predictable change, like a soft new sweater, is the most
comfortable. The change created by a global pandemic is accelerated and
unpredictable…

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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated cultural changes across the world. Photo
by Shownen Kang/Unsplash.


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STORIES IN THIS ISSUE


CROSS-CULTURAL AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE PANDEMIC

Issue 9

Many Aboriginal communities in Australia had been closed to outsiders before a
pandemic was called…

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THE POLITICS OF HABITS AND CITIZENSHIP DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Issue 9

Government attempts to control the spread of COVID-19 have changed personal
hygiene from mundane habits to essential acts…

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CURATION AND THE CORONAVIRUS: COLLECTING PANDEMIC ARTIFACTS (Q&A)

Issue 9

Culturally Modified interviews Royal Alberta Museum curator Pat Myers about
collecting items in a pandemic…

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FUNERARY RITES: HOW WE MOURN AND BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC

Issue 9

Funerals, burials and communally commemorating those who have died have always
been part of human history…

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A CHANGE OF SPACE: HOW COVID-19 AFFECTS PERSONAL SPACE

Issue 9

COVID-19 presents us with a way of cultivating awareness around physical
distancing and personal space…

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BREATHE. COLLECTIVE: TRADITIONAL ARTISTS ON PANDEMIC MASKS

Issue 9

For many Indigenous people in North America, the COVID-19 pandemic has carried
echoes of a not-so-distant past…

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HOW COVID-19 IS CHANGING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY

Issue 9

Despite scientific evidence that currency does not transmit COVID-19, there is
wariness around the use of cash…

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THE MEDICINE OF BELIEF: HEALTH FROM THE VIKING AGE AND ONWARDS

Issue 9

Before the existence of germ theory, people in the past found different
explanations to understand death and disease…

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AMERICA UNRAVELING: WADE DAVIS AND AMERICA’S UNDOING

Issue 9

Wade Davis suggests that COVID-19 pandemic signals the beginning of the end of
the American empire…

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CHANGE*: INEVITABLE, BUT ACCELERATED

Change is good. But mostly if it’s at the right time, in the right place, and at
the right dose. Predictable change, like a soft new sweater, is the most
comfortable. But the change created by a global pandemic is both accelerated and
unpredictable.

Most of us haven’t experienced rapid change of this magnitude, so we find
metaphors to explain COVID-19: we’re waging a war against it, or it’s leading us
through a portal, or we’re bracing for each of its waves as if sheltering from a
natural disaster.

In the past, pandemics have led to some surprising outcomes. They’ve often
revealed areas in our society where we need to improve. After the outbreak of
the bubonic plague in the 14th century, the diets of survivors got better, and
people became more resilient to the disease. After an outbreak of cholera,
British Doctor John Snow was able to link the illness to contaminated drinking
water, which prompted investments in water sanitation. The Spanish Flu led to
awareness around inadequate housing and overcrowding, which enabled countries
like Sweden to fight social inequality through welfare.

COVID-19 presents us with similar awareness and opportunities for innovation
through technology, communication, and collaboration.

Our world is changing. We contend with new regulations, we spend more time at
home, we stomach the strong scent of hand sanitizer on a daily basis. Yet, as
human beings, we’re always in conversation with our world. So, while the
coronavirus changes our world, our world changes us, too.

> Change is everywhere. It’s unsettling, groundless, shaky. But it can also lead
> to improvements and innovation.

In our ninth issue, we’re featuring cultural experts to understand just how
COVID-19 is shaping us. First, Terje Oestigaard takes us to the Viking Age and
beyond, so that we can understand how beliefs, spirituality, and superstitions
affect our approach to medicine.

Pat Myers, from the Royal Alberta Museum, helps us understand how our experience
will impact people in the future. We caught up with Pat about what it’s like to
collect objects from the pandemic, and how the face mask has become emblematic.

Our Social Media Spotlight showcases how two Métis women, Nathalie Bertin and
Lisa Shepherd, created an online space where traditional artists and artisans
share handmade face masks, combining the traditional with the contemporary, in
an article by Connie Kulhavy.

Change is felt in our day-to-day lives. Rick Budhwa reveals how our personal
space bubbles are shifting, and how culture can determine how we deal with
physical distancing. Bicram Rijal explores the politics of handwashing, and how
directives from the government aren’t one-size-fits-all when different
populations have different needs.

The coronavirus may even be affecting the loose change in our pockets. Anwar
Sheluchin examines how COVID-19 is affecting our relationship with money.

Sweeping change inhabits all spheres, including our ability to grieve. Stephanie
Parker interviews Anthropologist Matthew Engelke about how the coronavirus has
upended funerary and burial rituals across the world.

Like the pandemics that came before it, COVID-19 is exposing systemic
inequalities around the world. We take a look at Australian perspectives on the
pandemic with Phil Hunt and Liesa Clague. And in North America, we look at an
article by Culturally Modified favourite Wade Davis, in an analysis of his
ground-breaking article about the unraveling of America.

Change is everywhere. It’s unsettling, groundless, shaky. But it can also lead
to improvements and innovation. To use a metaphor, this pandemic is a lens
through which one might see the world more clearly. A new way of seeing the
world leads to new choices and new ways of being.


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ISSUE 3: RELATIONSHIPS

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ISSUE 4: TIME

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ISSUE 5: MOVEMENT

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ISSUE 6: POWER

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ISSUE 7: WATER

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ISSUE 8: THE BEST OF CULTURALLY MODIFIED

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