Morality, Hope and Grief

Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84545-663-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 710 g

Reihe: Epistemologies of Healing

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 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dilger, Hansjörg

Luig, Ute

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin HIV, AIDS
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Morality, Hope and Grief: Towards an Ethnographic Perspective in HIV/AIDS Research

Hansjörg 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

Chapter2. 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 O. Mogensen

Chapter 4. Health Workers Entangled: Confidentiality and Certification

Susan R. Whyte, Michael A. Whyte and 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

Hansjörg 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

P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince

Chapter 12. Diseased and Dangerous: Images of Widows’ Bodies in the Context of the HIV epidemic in Northern Zambia

Johanna A. 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

Über Autor(innen)

Dilger, Hansjörg
Hansjörg Dilger is Junior Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Between 1995 and 2003, he carried out long-term fieldwork on AIDS and social relationships in rural and urban Tanzania. He is the author of Living with Aids. Illness, Death and Social Relationships in Africa. An Ethnography (Campus, 2005 in German). His recent research has focused on histories of social and religious inequality and the growing presence of Christian and Muslim schools in Dar es Salaam.

Luig, Ute
Ute Luig is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. She has conducted long-term field work in Uganda, Ivory Coast and Zambia on gender, AIDS, religion and modernity. She is co-editor of Spirit Possession, Modernity and Power in Africa (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999). At present she is involved in a project analysing the role of Buddhism in the reconciliation process in Cambodia after the civil war.

Hansjörg Dilger is Junior Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Between 1995 and 2003, he carried out long-term fieldwork on AIDS and social relationships in rural and urban Tanzania. He is the author of Living with Aids. Illness, Death and Social Relationships in Africa. An Ethnography (Campus, 2005 in German). His recent research has focused on histories of social and religious inequality and the growing presence of Christian and Muslim schools in Dar es Salaam.