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AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal : A Kinship of Bones / Patricia C. Henderson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Care and Welfare SeriesPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789089643599
  • 9789048514977
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.19697920068
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Vertiginous Body And Social Metamorphosis -- 2. Mortality And The Ethics Of Ethnographic Research -- 3. Children And Youth In Pursuit Of Care -- 4. Healers Negotiating The Local And The Global -- 5. Love In A Time Of Adversity -- 6. On Accompanying The Ill -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Interlocutors And Research Methods -- Acronyms -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Patricia C. Henderson, a South African anthropologist, resided from March 2003 to February 2006 in Okhahlamba, a municipality in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. In this book, she recounts her experience among this rural population who lived under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Spanning a period that starts before antiretrovirals were readily available to a time when these treatments were finally used to care for the ill, this powerful account of a terrible disease and the communities which it affects focuses on the ties between suffering and kinship in South Africa.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9789048514977

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Vertiginous Body And Social Metamorphosis -- 2. Mortality And The Ethics Of Ethnographic Research -- 3. Children And Youth In Pursuit Of Care -- 4. Healers Negotiating The Local And The Global -- 5. Love In A Time Of Adversity -- 6. On Accompanying The Ill -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Interlocutors And Research Methods -- Acronyms -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Patricia C. Henderson, a South African anthropologist, resided from March 2003 to February 2006 in Okhahlamba, a municipality in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. In this book, she recounts her experience among this rural population who lived under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Spanning a period that starts before antiretrovirals were readily available to a time when these treatments were finally used to care for the ill, this powerful account of a terrible disease and the communities which it affects focuses on the ties between suffering and kinship in South Africa.

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In English.

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