In India, the ‘unlock’ period has allowed some domestic workers to return to work; this comes amidst government advisories of greater risk of contagion generally. Drawing on ethnographic work with women domestic workers in the city of Delhi, the article delineates how formalities of social distancing and mask-wearing have begun to inflect personalised labour relationships in ways that entrench existing hierarchies enabled by caste practices. This can be evidenced from a doubling of the idea of contagion – a culturally polluted person rendered even more pestilential because of contagion, but whose service/s are, nonetheless, needed to disinfect the space of the employer’s home. With no data set available for assessing whether caste has been a variable in the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, anthropology will have to take up the responsibility of demonstrating that the latter is indeed a social phenomenon.

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亲密和个人劳动的不正当经济

在印度，“解锁”期允许一些家政工人重返工作岗位；这是在政府建议普遍存在更大传染风险的情况下发生的。这篇文章借鉴了德里市女性家庭佣工的民族志研究，描述了社交距离和戴口罩的形式如何开始影响个性化的劳资关系，从而巩固由种姓做法促成的现有等级制度。这可以从传染概念的加倍中得到证明——一个受文化污染的人由于传染而变得更加瘟疫，但仍然需要他们的服务来对雇主家的空间进行消毒。由于没有可用于评估种姓是否是冠状病毒大流行传播的变量的数据集，