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

• Superior document: Care & welfare
• VerfasserIn: Henderson, Patricia C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Care & welfare.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).

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.