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A Plague of Paradoxes - AIDS, Culture and Demography in Northern Tanzania (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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A Plague of Paradoxes - AIDS, Culture and Demography in Northern Tanzania (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
Series: Worlds of Desire Series
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Since recording its first AIDS cases in 1983, Tanzania has reported
nearly 90,000 more to the World Health Organization--more than any
other country in Africa. As AIDS spread, the devastating syndrome
came to be known simply as "ugonjwa huo: " "that disease."
The AIDS epidemic has forced Africans to reflect upon the meaning
of traditional ideas and practices related to sexuality and
fertility, and upon modernity and biomedicine. In "A Plague of
Paradoxes, " anthropologist Philip Setel observes Tanzania's Chagga
people and their attempts to cope with and understand AIDS--the
latest in a series of crises over which they feel they have little,
if any, control.
Timely and well-researched, "A Plague of Paradoxes" is an extended
case study of the most serious epidemic of the twentieth century
and the cultural circumstances out of which it emerged. It is a
unique book that brings together anthropology, demography, and
epidemiology to explain how a particular community in Africa
experiences AIDS.
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