AIDS, intimacy and care in rural KwaZulu-Natal : a kinship of bones /
"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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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | Care & welfare.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.