ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an autoethnographic account of living in and living with the pandemic, in which the author also reflect on what he/she had learned about anthropology and how he/she had learned it. The debate about “objectivity” and “subjectivity” in the social sciences has long remained a prime area of academic inquiry. Autoethnography, formerly considered too “subjective,” has now become an accepted source of first-hand data and is also considered to be pivotal for extending sociocultural understandings. Synthesizing evocative and analytical autoethnographic approaches, the author have presented embodied stories about myself, (hopefully) evoked “conversations” with the author's readers, and analyzed these stories via Geertzian “thick description” to create theoretical understandings of broader social phenomena.
