AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal: A Kinship of Bones

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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Main Author: Henderson, Patricia C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2012]
Series:Care and Welfare Series
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Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9789048514977
DOI:10.1515/9789048514977

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