Morality, Hope and Grief: Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa
"We have come to expect that an emergent disease, once the initial hysteria it sparks has died down, will either be eradicated by money and medicine, or it will settle into the prosaic landscape of ordinary maladies with attendant routines, inconveniences, and bureaucratic exasperations. In Africa, AIDS has not followed either pathway. This outstanding collection of essays takes explicit aim at the tensions that this 'non-resolution' has generated in the world region that has felt the...
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"This series in medical anthropology publishes monographs and edited volumes on indigenous (so-called traditional) medical knowledge and practice, alternative and complementary medicine, and ethnobiological studies that relate to health and illness. The emphasis of the series is on the way indigenous epistemologies inform healing, against a background of comparison with other practices, and in recognition of the fluidity between them." "á[S]ome of the best, most thoughtful scholarship on AIDS in Africa.'---Julie Livingston, Rutgers University" "á[T]hese chapters... tell us about how ordinary people have re-created their social and cultural worlds under the threat of a new disease, and also in the face of extremely challenging economic conditions...an extremely valuable book.'---Steven Feierman, University of Pennsylvania" "áIn this outstanding collection...we see vividly how the potential death warrant that AIDS presents to couples, households, children, has institutionalized new forms of social stigma and, at the same time, new levels of collective resilience and courage.'---Caroline Bledsoe, Northeastern University" The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Sahaian 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 describe the dilemmas that families, communities and health professionals face and shed new light on the transformation of social and moral orders in African societies, which have been increasingly marginalised in the context of global modernity.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction. Morality, Hope and Grief: Towards an Ethnographic Perspective in HIV/AIDS Research Hansjorg Dilger Dilger, Hansjorg 1I Giving Hope? Networks of Healing, Treatment and Care1 Beyond Bare Life: AIDS, (Bio) Politics, and the Neoliberal Order Jean Comaroff Comaroff, Jean 212 Spiritual Insecurity and AIDS in South Africa Adam Ashforth Ashforth, Adam 433 New Hopes and New Dilemmas: Disclosure and Recognition in the Time of Antiretroviral Treatment Hanne O. Mogensen Mogensen, Hanne O. 614 Health Workers Entangled: Confidentiality and Certification David Kyaddondo Kyaddondo, David 805 áMy Relatives are Running Away from Me!' Kinship and Care in the Wake of Structural Adjustment, Privatisation and HIV/AIDS in Tanzania Hansjorg Dilger Dilger, Hansjorg 102II Moralities at Stake6 The Social History of an Epidemic: HIV/AIDS in Gwembe Valley, Zambia, 1982-2004 Elizabeth Colson Colson, Elizabeth 1277 Living beyond AIDS in Maasailand: Discourses of Contagion and Cultural Identity Aud Talle Talle, Aud 1488 Politics of Blame: Clashing Moralities and the AIDS Epidemic in Nso' (North-West Province, Cameroon) Ivo Quaranta Quaranta, Ivo 1739 Gossip, Rumour and Scandal: The Circulation of AIDS Narratives in a Climate of Silence and Secrecy Graeme Reid Reid, Graeme 192III Experiences of Grief, Death and Pain10 áWe are Tired of Mourning!' The Economy of Death and Bereavement in a Time of AIDS Liv Haram Haram, Liv 21911 Purity is Danger: Ambiguities of Touch around Sickness and Death in Western Kenya Ruth J. Prince Prince, Ruth J. 24012 Diseased and Dangerous: Images of Widows' Bodies in the Context of the HIV Epidemic in Northern Zambia Johanna A. Offe Offe, Johanna A. 27013 Orphans' Ties---Belonging and Relatedness in Child-Headed Households in Malawi Angelika Wolf Wolf, Angelika 29214 The Widow in Blue: Blood and the Morality of Remembering in Botswana's Time of AIDS Frederick Klaits Klaits, Frederick 312Notes on Contributors 332Index 337
