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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Patricia C. HendersonPublisher: Amsterdam University Press Imprint: Amsterdam University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9789089643599ISBN 10: 9089643591 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 30 December 2011 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsTaking the reader through landscapes of disease, devastation and hope, Henderson's book is theoretically erudite without her philosophical observations overwriting the words of her respondents. She shows what fidelity in the fields anthropologists cultivate means within the practice of anthropology. Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University In a most personal and ethically informed narrative, Henderson develops a carnal anthropology of the decaying and dying body of HIV/AIDS patients that may trigger love and care as well as stress and rejection. Her work will be of immense benefit to medics, social workers, and home-based care organisations confronted with this disease. Jean-Pierre Warnier, Professor of Anthropology, African Studies Centre, Paris Taking the reader through landscapes of disease, devastation and hope, Henderson's book is theoretically erudite without her philosophical observations overwriting the words of her respondents. She shows what fidelity in the fields anthropologists cultivate means within the practice of anthropology. Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University In a most personal and ethically informed narrative, Henderson develops a carnal anthropology of the decaying and dying body of HIV/AIDS patients that may trigger love and care as well as stress and rejection. Her work will be of immense benefit to medics, social workers, and home-based care organisations confronted with this disease. Jean-Pierre Warnier, Professor of Anthropology, African Studies Centre, Paris [...] a beautiful, messy-with-life book. I am awed by Henderson's protracted ethnographicwork, and her storytelling, that at once sprawls out into a community and spills inwards, closely grained, looking steadily (and respectfully) at the minutiae of how illness, griefand healing is experienced in mutual, inter-subjective gestures. There is something astute, fierce and intimate that we take away from reading A Kinship of Bones - like touching and being touched, we see and care about people in a different way. Linda Wilbraham, Rhodes University, South Africa Author InformationPatricia C. Henderson is a lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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