EP #359 - 10.18.2021 - The Origins of COVID-19 w/Frederic Keck

Today I discuss the origins of COVID-19 w/Frederic Keck, author of Avian Reservoirs. Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts.

Frédéric Keck is a Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Social Anthropology (CNRS-Collège de France-EHESS). After working on the history of social anthropology and contemporary biopolitical questions raised by avian influenza, he was the head of the research department of the musée du quai KAY Branly between 2014 and 2018. He published Avian Reservoirs. Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts  (Duke University Press, 2020) and (with A. Kelly and C. Lynteris) Anthropology of Epidemics (Routledge, 2019).