Pandemic kinship : families, intervention, and social change in Botswana's time of AIDS /

Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours, and community, Pandemic Kinship provides an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana's time of AIDS. It challenges assumptions about a 'crisis of care' unfolding in the wake of the pandemic, showing tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reece, Koreen M., 1977- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Series:International African library ; 67.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009150200
Table of Contents:
  • Going up and down
  • 'Ke a aga' : Lorato, building
  • Geographies of intervention
  • Children of one womb
  • Taking what belongs to you
  • Supplementary care
  • Recognising pregnancy
  • Recognising marriage
  • Managing recognition in a time of AIDS
  • Far family
  • Living outside
  • Children in need of care
  • The village in the home : a party
  • 'Lifting up culture' : a homecoming
  • A global family
  • Conclusion: 'We have a problem at home' : the ordinary crisis of kinship
  • An epidemic epilogue.