Thornton Unimagined Community

Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-520-94265-3
Verlag: University of California Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 20, 304 Seiten

Reihe: California Series in Public Anthropology

This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990s in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while during the same period HIV prevalence rose in South Africa, the country with Africa's lowest fertility rate. Thornton finds that culturally and socially determined differences in the structure of sexual networks—rather than changes in individual behavior—were responsible for these radical differences in HIV prevalence. Incorporating such factors as property, mobility, social status, and political authority into our understanding of AIDS transmission, Thornton's analysis also suggests new avenues for fighting the disease worldwide.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thornton, Robert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Ethnic Names and Languages

Preface


1. Introduction: Meaning and Structure in the Study of AIDS

2. Comparing Uganda and South Africa: Sexual Networks, Family Structure, and Property

3. The Social Determinants of Sexual Network Configuration

4. The Tightening Chain: Civil Society and Uganda’s Response to HIV/AIDS

5. AIDS in Uganda: Years of Chaos and Recovery

6. Siliimu as Native Category: AIDS as Local Knowledge in Uganda

7. The Indigenization of AIDS: Governance and the Political Response in Uganda

8. South Africa’s Struggle: The Omission and Commission of Truth about AIDS

9. Imagining AIDS: South Africa’s Viral Politics

10. Flows of Sexual Substance: The Sexual Network in South Africa

11. Preventing AIDS: A New Paradigm for a New Strategy


Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Thornton, Robert
Robert J. Thornton is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and author of The Early Writings of Bronislaw Malinowski and Space, Time, and Culture among the Iraqw of Tanzania. His articles have appeared in Current Anthropology and American Ethnologist.