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Zusatztext 68829023 Informationen zum Autor 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. 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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...
