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

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"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 ev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henderson, Patricia C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2011]
Colección:Care & welfare.
Temas:
AIDS (Disease) > South Africa.
AIDS (Disease)
HIV infections.
Social history.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Infections
Social Conditions
Sida > Afrique du Sud.
Sida.
Infections à VIH.
Histoire sociale.
social history.
Medicine.
Clinical and internal medicine.
Diseases and disorders.
Infectious and contagious diseases.
Medicine: general issues.
Public health and preventive medicine.
Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Social history
HIV infections
Aids
Africa, Southern > ethnology
South Africa
KwaZulu-Natal
Anthropology
Sociology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The vertiginous body and social metamorphosis
  • The life and death of Nkosinathi Dladla
  • Symbolic investments in the body
  • Mortality and the ethics of ethnographic research
  • In the presence of death
  • Theoretical pathways
  • Accompanying Mandla Shabalala in his illness
  • Children and youth in pursuit of care
  • The variable living circumstances of the children and youth of Amatikwe
  • The pain of mobility
  • Expressive genres
  • Healers negotiating the local and the global
  • Exploring healer narratives: Ntuthuko Hadebe
  • Nonhlanhla Duma
  • Ties between the living and the dead, a conduit of knowledge
  • The politics of illness
  • Love in a time of adversity
  • On accompanying the ill
  • Zinhle Vilikazi
  • Life experience and philosophy in relation to becoming a volunteer
  • Home-based carers as brokers
  • The illegal sale of medication from a public health facility
  • Beginning a journey with antiretroviral therapies
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Interlocutors and research methods.

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