Abstract

With all that the COVID-19 pandemic has entailed, the recent months have occasioned an unusual amount of reflection on the nature of human interaction. When considered in light of this journal—which is nothing if not an interaction, though thankfully not of the sort that a pandemic can easily disrupt—the question of what it means to interact opens up some compelling lines of inquiry. Of particular interest is the relationship between interaction and tradition. As our previous issue demonstrated, traditions are in some sense patterned interactions across time. Yet how might traditions shape interactions that occur within a common moment? This is a question the present issue is well suited to address.This issue...