The articles in this special issue demonstrate, through ethnographic fi eldwork and observations, how anthropologists and the methodological tools of their discipline became a means of understanding the Ebola outbreak in West Africa during 2014 and 2015. The examples, from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, show how anthropologists were involved in the Ebola outbreak at diff erent points during the crisis and the contributions their work made. Discussing issues including health promotion, gender, quarantine and Ebola survivors, the authors show the diverse roles played by anthropologists and the diff erent ways in which they made use of the tools of their discipline. The case studies draw upon the ethical, methodological and logistical challenges of conducting fi eldwork during a crisis such as this one and off er refl ections upon the role of anthropology in this context.

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将人类学纳入埃博拉疫情：西非的案例研究

通过人种志领域和观察，本期特刊中的文章展示了人类学家及其学科的方法论工具如何成为理解2014年和2015年西非埃博拉疫情的手段。这些例子来自利比里亚，几内亚和塞拉利昂，展示了人类学家如何在危机期间的不同时间参与埃博拉疫情及其工作。在讨论健康促进，性别，检疫和埃博拉幸存者等问题时，作者们展示了人类学家所扮演的不同角色，以及他们利用其学科工具的不同方式。案例研究借鉴了道德，