[Xmca-l] Fwd: Researcher help during Covid-19

Fri Apr 17 10:17:04 PDT 2020

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> Subject: Researcher help during Covid-19
> Date: April 17, 2020 at 7:39:59 AM GMT-5
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> A call to researchers to help small-scale communities facing coronavirus
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> This message is sent on behalf of the organising committees of the Cultural Evolution Society (CES), European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA) and Evolutionary Anthropology Society (EAS).
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> We request researchers working among small-scale societies, particularly remote communities, provide information about the coronavirus global pandemic to the communities with whom they work and offer any help they can. Such communities may lack access to both information and medical facilities, and contain many elderly people living in close proximity to others.
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> We are not suggesting that researchers physically visit the communities with whom they work, given the risk of spreading the virus. However, we encourage you to explain to your communities, via SMS, phone or other means, what the disease is, how it is transmitted, and its key characteristics, for example that it disproportionately affects older people and that children can be silent carriers. This should allow communities to think about how they can organise themselves within their particular contexts during the epidemic. Official do / don't lists may be geared towards urban populations and may not always be relevant to these communities. Therefore, if people understand the symptoms, transmission and features of the disease then they can adapt based on their context. In addition, researchers may be able to help identify hurdles communities may face in their specific ecological and social contexts (e.g. transmission from shared handpumps and well buckets; absence of soap), and offer potential solutions.
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> To aid in this effort, some of our members have put together information sheets describing how they have communicated information about coronavirus to their communities within their ecological and social context. These can be found here on the CES website <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://culturalevolutionsociety.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e95fcd4f82dcb3c4b2c63b0b2&id=614e7a0b5a&e=ed088ee7c2__;!!Mih3wA!QYDgaRPyw6diitICj9AF06kvoODiQ2nAOJhZ7giSJR2daS9jCGLGwbvcTdYPv5fu9KZhTQ$ >. If you are a researcher and would like to contribute an information sheet you have used in your community to put up on this site, please email Alex Mesoudi (a.mesoudi@exeter.ac.uk <mailto:a.mesoudi@exeter.ac.uk>).
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> We have also created an editable Excel sheet where researchers can identify issues faced by their communities and leave questions for other researchers. This will help to share information/ideas on how these problems are being dealt with in different parts of the world. If you would like to contribute to this sheet, please email Lotty Brand (c.brand@exeter.ac.uk <mailto:c.brand@exeter.ac.uk>).
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> Note from the CES Exec: We are tremendously grateful to our members who have been so proactive putting materials together and acting as contact points. Thank you all, but especially Shakti Lamba, Alex Mesoudi, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, and Lottie Brand.
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> We hope you all keep well,
> Fiona Jordan, Secretary
> on behalf of the CES Executive
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