Narrazioni della pandemia di Covid-19: voci dal Marocco

Abstract

Narratives of the Covid-19 pandemic: voices from Morocco ----- Abstract --- The author, moving into the critical perspective of medical anthropology, after having discussed the Moroccan health crisis management model of Covid-19, reports some narratives of the pandemic in this Maghreb country. These voices are collected in Marrakech, in the framework of a wider research project on the study of the social and cultural components of the chronic disease already started in 2018 and recognized as ‘Italian Ethnological Mission in Morocco’ by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in 2020. Due to the health crisis with the consequent limitations imposed on the movements and the impossibility to continue in loco the research started and developed in the two previous years, the narratives here examined have been collected at a distance, within the field already outlined, but with a digital ethnography approach, by web and social media.

Keywords

• narratives
• pandemic
• marocco
• medical anthropology
• digital ethnografy