AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine
«A brilliant and vivid ethnographic account of how people’s understanding and treatment of HIV/AIDS intersects with existing social and symbolic meanings around disease, death, witchcraft, healing strategies and everyday social interactions in Bushbuckridge, South Africa.»
Alcinda Honwana, author of Youth and Revolution in Tunisia
An in-depth ethnographic exploration of how the AIDs pandemic has played out at a local level in South Africa, revealing the importance of understanding culture for shaping effective strategies of AIDs treatment. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Zed Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 212
- ISBN
- 9781786994745
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
Anmeldelser
«A brilliant and vivid ethnographic account of how people’s understanding and treatment of HIV/AIDS intersects with existing social and symbolic meanings around disease, death, witchcraft, healing strategies and everyday social interactions in Bushbuckridge, South Africa.»
Alcinda Honwana, author of Youth and Revolution in Tunisia
«Building on some three decades of experience, Niehaus offers a superb analysis of the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic. A necessary reminder of how anthropological questions of kinship and misfortune remain highly significant to any understanding of HIV/AIDS.»
Julie Livingston, New York University
«Niehaus returns us to the fundamentals of anthropology, offering a subtle but sharp critique of the Foucauldian turn in health. This is a superb ethnography – among its contributions the best critique of mainstream views on AIDS orphans I have seen.»
Mark Hunter, author of Love in the Time of AIDS
«Niehaus captures the diversity of experiences of those living with HIV/AIDS in Bushbuckridge, South Africa. He reminds us that effective community engagement and efforts to counter stigma must be at the forefront of the global response to HIV/AIDS.»
Peter Piot, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine