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Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa - Culture, Healthcare and the State (Paperback)
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Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa - Culture, Healthcare and the State (Paperback)
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This book explores the impact of Covid-19, and the associated state
lockdown, on rural lives in a former homeland in South Africa. The
2020 Disaster Management Act saw the state sweep through rural
areas, targeting funerals and other customary practices as
potential 'super-spreader' events. This unprecedented clampdown
produced widespread disruption, fear and anxiety. The authors build
on path-breaking work concerning local responses to West Africa's
Ebola epidemic, and examine the HIV/AIDS pandemic, to understand
the impact of the Covid crisis on these communities, and on rural
Africa more broadly. To shed light on the role of custom and ritual
in rural social change during the pandemic, Covid and Custom in
Rural South Africa applies long-term historical and ethnographic
research; theories of people's science, local knowledge and the
human economy; and fieldwork conducted in ten rural South African
communities during lockdown. The volume highlights differences
between developments in Southern Africa and elsewhere on the
continent, while exploring how the former apartheid
homelands-commonly, yet problematically, represented as former
'labour reserves'-have since been reconstituted as new home-spaces.
In short, it explains why rural people have been so angered by the
state's assault on their cultural practices and institutions in the
time of Covid.
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