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AIDS, intimacy and care in rural KwaZulu-Natal : a kinship of bones / Patricia C. Henderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henderson, Patricia C., author.
- Series:
- Care & welfare.
- Care & 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)
- ISBN:
- 1-04-078564-6
- 1-003-69061-0
- 1-04-079162-X
- 1-280-11828-8
- 9786613522573
- 90-485-1497-5
- 9781003690610
- OCLC:
- 782878262
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