Overview

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses. This volume however, focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment and death in order to offer innovative insights into the complex processes that shape individual and community responses to AIDS. The contributions describe the dilemmas that families, communities and health professionals face and shed new light on the transformation of social and moral orders in African societies, which have been increasingly marginalised in the context of global modernity.

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Author:   Hansjoerg Dilger ,  Ute Luig
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   v. 7
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.685kg
ISBN:  

9781845456634

ISBN 10:   1845456637
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   01 May 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Morality, Hope and Grief: Towards an Ethnographic Perspective in HIV/AIDS Research Hansjoerg Dilger PART I: GIVING HOPE? NETWORKS OF HEALING, TREATMENT AND CARE Chapter 1. Beyond Bare Life: AIDS, (Bio)Politics, and the Neoliberal Order Jean Comaroff Chapter2. Spiritual Insecurity and AIDS in South Africa Adam Ashforth Chapter 3. New Hopes and New Dilemmas: Disclosure and Recognition in the Time of Antiretroviral Treatment Hanne O. Mogensen Chapter 4. Health Workers Entangled: Confidentiality and Certification Susan R. Whyte, Michael A. Whyte and David Kyaddondo Chapter 5. 'My Relatives Are Running Away From Me!' Kinship and Care in the Wake of Structural Adjustment, Privatization and HIV/AIDS in Tanzania Hansjoerg Dilger PART II: MORALITIES AT STAKE Chapter 6. The Social History of an Epidemic: HIV/AIDS in Gwembe Valley, Zambia, 1982-2004 Elizabeth Colson Chapter 7. Living beyond AIDS in Maasailand: Discourses of Contagion and Cultural Identity Aud Talle Chapter 8. Politics of Blame: Clashing Moralities and the AIDS Epidemic in Nso' (North-West Province, Cameroon) Ivo Quaranta Chapter 9. Gossip, Rumour and Scandal: the Circulation of AIDS Narratives in a Climate of Silence and Secrecy Graeme Reid PART III: EXPERIENCES OF GRIEF, DEATH AND PAIN Chapter 10. 'We are tired of mourning!' The Economy of Death and Bereavement in a Time of AIDS Liv Haram Chapter 11. Purity is Danger: Ambiguities of Touch around Sickness and Death in Western Kenya P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince Chapter 12. Diseased and Dangerous: Images of Widows' Bodies in the Context of the HIV epidemic in Northern Zambia Johanna A. Offe Chapter 13. Orphans' Ties - Belonging and Relatedness in Child Headed Households in Malawi Angelika Wolf Chapter 14. The Widow in Blue: Blood and the Morality of Remembering in Botswana's Time of AIDS Frederick Klaits Notes on Contributors Index

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[This book offers] a set of reports on how a whole range of issues in daily social life in Africa have been shaped by the presence of AIDS. Even more powerfully, these chapters about experience in the age of AIDS tell us about how ordinary people have re-created their social and cultural worlds under the threat of a new disease, and also in the face of extremely challenging economic conditions...an extremely valuable book.A * Steven Feierman, University of Pennsylvania

Author Information

Hansjoerg Dilger is Junior Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universitat Berlin. Between 1995 and 2003, he carried out long-term fieldwork on AIDS and social relationships in rural and urban Tanzania. He is the author of Living with Aids. Illness, Death and Social Relationships in Africa. An Ethnography (Campus, 2005 in German). His recent research has focused on histories of social and religious inequality and the growing presence of Christian and Muslim schools in Dar es Salaam.

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