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Berghahn Books Morality Hope and Grief Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa 2010 Edition by Hansjoerg Dilger, Ute Luig
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 vividly describe the dilemmas that families, communities, and health professionals face as they attempt to make sense of the AIDS crisis and develop socially and morally acceptable strategies in dealing with the death, suffering and consequent disruption of social and reproductive relationships. The authors shed new light on the transformation of social and moral orders in African societies, which have been increasingly marginalized in the context of global modernity. Table of contents :- List of Illustration Acknowledgements Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa: Hope, Morality and Grief. An Introduction Hansjorg Dilger Part I. Giving Hope? Networks of Healing, Treatment and Care Chapter 1. Beyond Bare Life: AIDS, (Bio)Politics, and the Neoliberal Order Jean Comaroff Chapter 2. Spiritual Insecurity and AIDS in South Africa Adam Ashforth Chapter 3. New Hopes and New Dilemmas: Disclosure and Recognition in the Time of Antiretroviral Treatment Hanne Mogensen Chapter 4. Health Workers Entangled: Confidentiality and Certification Susan Reynolds Whyte, Michael A. Whyte, David Kyaddondo Chapter 5. \'My Relatives Are Running Away From Me!\' Kinship and Care in the Wake of Structural Adjustment, Privatization and HIV/AIDS in Tanzania Hansjorg Dilger Part II. Moralities at Stake Chapter 6. The Social History of an Epidemic: HIV/AIDS in Gwembe Valley, Zambia, 1982-2004 Elizabeth Colson Chapter 7. Living beyond AIDS in Maasailand: Discourses of Contagion and Cultural Identity Aud Talle Chapter 8. Politics of Blame: Clashing Moralities and the AIDS Epidemic in Nso\' (North-West Province, Cameroon) Ivo Quaranta Chapter 9. Gossip, Rumour and Scandal: the Circulation of AIDS Narratives in a Climate of Silence and Secrecy Graeme Reid Part 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 Liv Haram Chapter 11. Purity is Danger: Ambiguities of Touch around Sickness and Death in Western Kenya Ruth Prince and Wenzel Geissler Chapter 12. Diseased and Dangerous: Images of Widows\' Bodies in the Context of the HIV epidemic in Northern Zambia Johanna Offe Chapter 13. Orphans\' Ties - Belonging and Relatedness in Child Headed Households in Malawi Angelika Wolf Chapter 14. The Widow in Blue: Blood and the Morality of Remembering in Botswana\'s Time of AIDS Frederick Klaits Notes on Contributors Index