AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal : A Kinship of Bones
ISBN: 9789089643599 | 9089643591
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Pub. Date: 3/15/2012
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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 everyday life. The book spans a period when antiretroviral medication was not available, and moves on to a time when the treatment became accessible. Hope gradually became manifest in the recovery of a number of people through antiretroviral therapies and 'the return' of bodies they could recognise as their own. This research implies that protracted interaction with people over time, offers insights into the unfolding textures of everyday life, in particular in its focus on suffering, social and structural inequality, illness, violence, mourning, sensibility, care and intimacy.
| Acknowledgements | p. 9 |
| Preface | p. 13 |
| Introduction | p. 17 |
| The Vertiginous Body and Social Metamorphosis | p. 41 |
| The life and death of Nkosinathi Dladla | p. 44 |
| Symbolic investments in the body | p. 51 |
| Conclusion | p. 56 |
| Mortality and the Ethics of Ethnographic Research | p. 59 |
| In the presence of death | p. 59 |
| Theoretical pa... MORE | p. 64 |
| Accompanying Mandla Shabalala in his illness | p. 70 |
| Conclusion | p. 80 |
| Children and Youth in Pursuit of Care | p. 83 |
| Introduction | p. 83 |
| The variable riving circumstances of the children and youth of Amatikwe | p. 87 |
| The pain of mobility | p. 95 |
| Expressive genres | p. 99 |
| Conclusion | p. 102 |
| Healers Negotiating the Local and the Global | p. 105 |
| Exploring healer narratives: Ntuthuko Hadebe | p. 108 |
| Nonhlanhla Duma | p. 113 |
| Ties between the living and the dead, a conduit of knowledge | p. 116 |
| The politics of illness | p. 119 |
| Conclusion | p. 125 |
| Love in a Time of Adversity | p. 127 |
| Part one | p. 129 |
| Part two | p. 144 |
| Conclusion | p. 150 |
| On Accompanying the Ill | p. 153 |
| Zinhle Vilikazi | p. 157 |
| Life experience and philosophy in relation to becoming a volunteer | p. 162 |
| Home-based carers as brokers | p. 167 |
| The illegal sale of medication from a public health facility | p. 170 |
| Beginning a journey with antketroviral therapies | p. 172 |
| Conclusion | p. 176 |
| Epilogue | p. 181 |
| Appendix: Interlocutors and Research Methods | p. 187 |
| Acronyms | p. 193 |
| Glossary | p. 195 |
| Notes | p. 201 |
| Bibliography | p. 225 |
| Index | p. 243 |
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Patricia C. Henderson is a lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.
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