AIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa

AIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa - The International African Library

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, demonstrating 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.

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Cambridge University Press

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Book information

ISBN: 9781139125079
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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Weight: -1g