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

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 perio...

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Superior document:Care & welfare
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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).
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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.