When bodies remember: experiences and politics of AIDS in South Africa

✍ Scribed by Jacobs, Amy;Fassin, Didier

Publisher: Univ. of California Press
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 391
Series: California series in public anthropology
Edition: Nachdr.
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: Political Anesthesia and Anthropological Concern 1. As If Nothing Ever Happened The Controversy A Life Proposition 1: The Structures of Time 2. An Epidemic of Disputes Beginnings Heresy Proposition 2: The Configuration of the Polemics 3. Anatomy of the Controversies Ordeals Arenas Proposition 3: The Figures of Denial 4. The Imprint of the Past Long Memory Bared History Proposition 4: The History of the Vanquished 5. The Embodiment of the World Behind the Landscapes Within the Narratives Proposition 5: The Forms of Experience 6. Living with Death Dying Born Again Proposition 6: Politics of Life Conclusion: This World We Live In Notes Brief Chronology of South African History Maps Bibliography Index

✦ Subjects

AIDS (Disease)--Government policy--South Africa;AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--South Africa;AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--South Africa;AIDS ; IND: s ; SWD-ID: 41124704;Politik ; SWD-ID: 40465147;Südafrika <Staat> ; IND: g ; SWD-ID: 40780120;AIDS (Disease)--Government policy;AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects;AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects;AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- South Africa;AIDS (Disease) -- Political aspects -- South Africa;AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- South Africa;A

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