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AIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,574
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AIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa (Hardcover): Fraser G. McNeill

AIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa (Hardcover)

Fraser G. McNeill

Series: The International African Library

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This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Based on a more than fifteen years association with the region, it demonstrates why AIDS interventions in the former homeland of Venda have failed and possibly even been counterproductive. It does so through a series of ethnographic encounters, from kings to condoms, which expose the ways in which biomedical understanding of the virus have been rejected by and incorporated into local understandings of health, illness, sex, and death. Through the songs of female initiation, AIDS education, and wandering minstrels, the book argues that music is central to understanding how AIDS interventions operate. This book elucidates a hidden world of meaning in which people sing about what they cannot talk about, where educators are blamed for spreading the virus, and in which condoms are often thought to cause AIDS. The policy implications are clear: African worldviews must be taken seriously if AIDS interventions in Africa are to become successful.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: The International African Library
Release date: October 2011
First published: October 2011
Authors: Fraser G. McNeill
Dimensions: 234 x 158 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-00991-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > AIDS: social aspects
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LSN: 1-107-00991-X
Barcode: 9781107009912

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