Morality, Hope and Grief : : Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa / / ed. by Hansjörg Dilger, Ute Luig.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ashforth, Adam,; Colson, Elizabeth,; Comaroff, Jean,; Dilger, Hansjörg,; Geissler, P. Wenzel,; Haram, Liv,; Klaits, Frederick,; Kyaddondo, David,; Mogensen, Hanne O.,; Offe, Johanna A.,; Prince, Ruth J.,; Quaranta, Ivo,; Reid, Graeme,; Talle, Aud,; Whyte, Michael A.,; Whyte, Susan R.,; Wolf, Angelika,
• HerausgeberIn: Dilger, Hansjörg,; Luig, Ute,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Epistemologies of Healing ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Morality, Hope and Grief: Towards an Ethnographic Perspective in HIV/AIDS Research -- I Giving Hope? Networks of Healing, Treatment and Care -- Chapter 1 Beyond Bare Life: AIDS, (Bio)Politics, and the Neoliberal Order -- Chapter 2 Spiritual Insecurity and AIDS in South Africa -- Chapter 3 New Hopes and New Dilemmas: Disclosure and Recognition in the Time of Antiretroviral Treatment -- Chapter 4 Health Workers Entangled: Confi dentiality and Certifi cation -- Chapter 5 ‘My Relatives Are Running Away from Me!’ Kinship and Care in the Wake of Structural Adjustment, Privatisation and HIV/AIDS in Tanzania -- II Moralities at Stake -- Chapter 6 The Social History of an Epidemic: HIV/AIDS in Gwembe Valley, Zambia, 1982–2004 -- Chapter 7 Living beyond AIDS in Maasailand: Discourses of Contagion and Cultural Identity -- Chapter 8 Politics of Blame: Clashing Moralities and the AIDS Epidemic in Nso’ (North-West Province, Cameroon) -- Chapter 9 Gossip, Rumour and Scandal: The Circulation of AIDS Narratives in a Climate of Silence and Secrecy -- 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 -- Chapter 11 Purity Is Danger: Ambiguities of Touch around Sickness and Death in Western Kenya -- Chapter 12 Diseased and Dangerous: Images of Widows’ Bodies in the Context of the HIV Epidemic in Northern Zambia -- Chapter 13 Orphans’ Ties – Belonging and Relatedness in Child-Headed Households in Malawi -- Chapter 14 The Widow in Blue: Blood and the Morality of Remembering in Botswana’s Time of AIDS -- Contributors -- Index