Aids, intimacy and care in rural KwaZulu-Natal : a kinship of bones / Patricia C. Henderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henderson, Patricia C.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Care & welfare

Care and Welfare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal.

AIDS (Disease).

HIV-positive persons--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal.

HIV-positive persons.

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal.

Physical Description:

254 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2011]

Summary:

This book describes how HIV/AIDS became part of the lives of the people of the mountainous Okhahlamba in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. Based on extensive research in the area between 2003 and 2006, the author shows what impact the disease had - and still does - for adults and children, and the different ways people tried to find answers to the devastating presence of HIV / AIDS. Henderson focuses on informal care by family members and volunteers at a time when anti-retroviral drugs were not yet available. She also shows what it meant to the community once the drugs became available.

Contents:

1 The Vertiginous Body and Social Metamorphosis 41

The life and death of Nkosinathi Dladla 44

Symbolic investments in the body 51

Conclusion 56

2 Mortality and the Ethics of Ethnographic Research 59

In the presence of death 59

Theoretical pathways 64

Accompanying Mandla Shabalala in his illness 70

Conclusion 80

3 Children and Youth in Pursuit of Care 83

Introduction 83

The variable riving circumstances of the children and youth of Amatikwe 87

The pain of mobility 95

Expressive genres 99

Conclusion 102

4 Healers Negotiating the Local and the Global 105

Exploring healer narratives: Ntuthuko Hadebe 108

Nonhlanhla Duma 113

Ties between the living and the dead, a conduit of knowledge 116

The politics of illness 119

Conclusion 125

5 Love in a Time of Adversity 127

Part one 129

Part two 144

Conclusion 150

6 On Accompanying the Ill 153

Zinhle Vilikazi 157

Life experience and philosophy in relation to becoming a volunteer 162

Home-based carers as brokers 167

The illegal sale of medication from a public health facility 170

Beginning a journey with antketroviral therapies 172

Conclusion 176.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9089643591

9789089643599

OCLC:

754711882

Publisher Number:

99947643966