Patricia C. Henderson

AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal

A Kinship of Bones

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 2003-2006, Patricia Henderson lived in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal where she recorded the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS. In this illuminating study, she recounts the concerns of rural people and explores local repertoires through which illness was folded into everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9789089643599
• ISBN-10: 9089643591
• Artikelnr.: 35185811

Autorenporträt

Patricia C. Henderson is a lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Appendix: Interlocutors and Research Methods
Bibliography
Index