Paul Wenzel Geissler, Ruth Jane Prince

Broschiertes Buch

The Land Is Dying

Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya

Beschreibung

Explores conflicts and concerns about personhoood, gender relations, memory and sociality that take shape under the shadow of the HIV/AIDS epidemic but that have deeper historical roots relating to Christianity, neo-traditionalism, and growing economic inequality. Links study of ritual and religion with that of history and memory and that of AIDS and crisis. Situates body, person, and social relations in the broader context of material engagements with the world and the historical changes affecting both.

Autor

After studying social anthropology in London and Copenhagen, Ruth Jane Prince is presently Smuts Fellow at the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in western Kenya since 1997 focusing on medical anthropology, kinship and Christianity. Her current research deals with HIV interventions and antiretroviral treatment programmes in Kenya, and related issues of global health, the political-economy of knowledge, transnationalism and the state. The authors have co-published articles on kinship and ethics, religion and social change, and the anthropology of the body, healing and science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 639g
• ISBN-13: 9780857457936
• ISBN-10: 0857457934
• Artikelnr.: 36834041