Jeffrey H. Cohen

Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University

The Conversation
Jeffrey H. Cohen is a professor of anthropology at The Ohio State University. This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to unlocking ideas from academia, under a Creative Commons license.

Two men walk on a street surrounded by hills. One man is riding a donkey and the other is walking alongside two cows.

Indigenous Mexicans turn inward to survive COVID-19, barricading villages and growing their own food

The Zapotec people of southern Mexico have always relied on each other to solve problems when the government can’t, or won’t, help. That’s proving to be a pretty effective pandemic response.