"We have come to expect that an emergent disease, once the initial
hysteria it sparks has died down, will either be eradicated by
money and medicine, or it will settle into the prosaic landscape of
ordinary maladies with attendant routines, inconveniences, and
bureaucratic exasperations. In Africa, AIDS has not followed either
pathway. This outstanding collection of essays takes explicit aim
at the tensions that this 'non-resolution' has generated in the
world region that has felt the greatest impact of the disease:
eastern and southern Africa. In these papers, we see vividly how
the potential death warrant that AIDS presents to couples,
households, children, has institutionalized new forms of social
stigma and, at the same time, new levels of collective resilience
and courage." . Caroline Bledsoe, Northwestern University
"This volume brings together some of the best, most thoughtful
scholarship on AIDS in Africa. The essays are grounded in the
troubling economic realities and intimate moral politics of daily
life amid widespread existential angst. Together they offer novel
insights into contemporary African social processes and
experiences. Paying careful attention to the ways people create and
tend to local moral worlds, Dilger and Luig have made a compelling,
important book." . Julie Livingston, Rutgers University
" This book offers] a set of reports on how a whole range of
issues in daily social life in Africa have been shaped by the
presence of AIDS. Even more powerfully, these chapters about
experience in the age of AIDS tell us about how ordinary people
have re-created their social and cultural worlds under the threat
of a new disease, and also in the face of extremely challenging
economic conditions...an extremely valuable book." . Steven
Feierman, University of Pennsylvania
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.
Hansjorg Dilger is Junior Professor of Social and Cultural
Anthropology at the Freie Universitat 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 Ute Luig is Professor of Social Anthropology at the
Freie Universitat 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."
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