AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal : : A Kinship of Bones / / Patricia C. Henderson.

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• VerfasserIn: Henderson, Patricia C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Care and Welfare Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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.

Table of 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