methods certainly, and we also need to think about changing ethics as well!

Of course, we are using virtual scenaries in cultural Anthropology and archaeology

Professor (Assistant)Diana Rocío: Yes, but I'm talking about other "entries" in field studies "Empircism studies especially in the study of small communities Such as markets, prisons, ... etc.

Covid-19 has changed the dynamics of 'Field' as we now reimagine community in virtual spaces as well, so there is now virtual field. Anthropology which is a subject based on field studies and explorations has indeed transformed due to covid. For instance, digital ethnographies are becoming common these days.

I'm going to provide what may be an unsatisfactory answer ––– yes and no. Yes to the increasing use of technologies such as drones, VR, and digital communication, etc. No to losing the core of our profession ... fieldwork, where one can establish personal relationships with those we hope to better understand. Fieldwork, in order to be truly productive, will always require interaction and feedback between the anthropologist and members of the culture.

Dear Islam Abdullah El-Ghani Ghanem thank you for this excellent technical question. As a chemist I'm certainly not a proven expert in the field of anthropology. However, I'm convinced that this disciplines will be severely affected and changed by the corona pandemic. In this context pleas have a look at the following relevant articles:

1. The (Im)possibility of Ethnographic Research during Corona

https://www.eth.mpg.de/5478478/news-2020-06-11-01

and

2. The Future of Anthropological Research: Ethics, Questions, and Methods in the Age of COVID-19: Part I

http://blog.wennergren.org/2020/06/the-future-of-anthropological-research-ethics-questions-and-methods-in-the-age-of-covid-19-part-i/

The method has indeed changed to digital ethnography, but it is complemented by coming to the location of the research setting at least once. It is necessary to add additional analytical paradigms, for example, hermeneutic, discourse analysis, semiotics, and similar paradigms that are appropriate for solving problems in research formulations.

I am completely agree with you Professor Douglas Raybeck

Thank you Frank T. Edelmann The two researches are useful.

Of course, the Covid-19 has completely changed our lives. In anthropology, both the traditional field work and the perspective of thinking will change.

Latin America focused scholars please note that The international Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) is having a latin america focused discussion on June 1-4 which will include a web session discussing how research methods have already changed in the region. So if you are interested in common property and latin america you may want to join the discussion. http:/iasc-commons.org

Those of us in IASC are convinced that research will change even for local scholars and researchers

I have been thinking a lot about this. Maybe even writing a paper if I get the time... It seems to me some things will change, as Douglas notes, but the core being PO fieldwork ought to remain the same. What is really going to kill anthropology is the slavish commitment to 'area studies', as a kind of 19 CE hangover, when everyone is finally waking up to multispecies, interconnected, Anthropocene. Though maybe the area I get pigeon holed into 'Japanese Studies', is particularly entrenched in this conservative mode of thinking. Japan is uniquely unique ad infinitum...but the whole culture - social structure in contained location (or even practices) needs to die its already too slow death. And the new commitment to anthropology = activism (noble in the past...perhaps...but condescending in the present) will likely marginalize anthropology more than it already is. So fieldwork changing or conferences being remote are less worries to me than the direction the discipline is heading, as a sort of competition of who can represent who, who can prove themselves (and 'their' informants) as the most maligned, rooted in ideas of belonging that themselves belong in the 1950s...

Thank you so much again.prof Paul Hansen

Also, some institutes must stop the conditions for getting a doctorate degree by studying other societies" empirical research study"(The situation does not bear)

Doctor Augusta Molnar: Of course we want to see the results and recommendations after it's over

of course event will be happy to share with all -- hoping to capture creative approaches by community and local researchers who also have been forced to curtail field visits. I think many creative things are happening now.

and I'm sure that Seminar of Royal Anthropological Institute Creativity during the Covid lockdown: Life and Renewal During the Pandemic’ It'll be good and useful.

https://mailchi.mp/therai/3mcrh6piw9-1048618?e=6707865ce0