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Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours and community, this offers an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana's time of AIDS. It tackles questions relevant to scholars and practitioners of anthropology, public health, social work, and development. This title is available Open Access on Cambridge Core.
List of contents
Introduction; Part I. 'Where are you from? Where are you going?': The Geographies of Kinship: 1. Going up and down; 2. 'Ke a Aga': lorato, building; 3. Geographies of intervention; Part II. 'Who is taking care of your things?': Care, Conflict, and the Economies of Kinship: 4. Children of one womb; 5. Taking what belongs to you; 6. Supplementary care; Part III. 'We are seeing things': Recognition, Risk, and reproducing Kinship: 7. Recognising pregnancy; 8. Recognising marriage; 9. Managing recognition in a time of AIDS; Part IV. 'They were far family': Child circulation and the limits of Kinship: 10. Far family; 11. Living outside; 12. Children in need of care; Part V. 'We show people we are together': Making selves, Families, Villages, and Nations: 13. The village in the home: A party; 14. 'Lifting up culture': A homecoming; 15. A global family.
About the author
Koreen M. Reece is Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. She has over fifteen years' experience working in Botswana, first as an advisor to NGO and government responses to the AIDS epidemic, and later as an anthropologist.
