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Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa(20 California Series in Public Anthropology)

Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa(20 California Series in Public Anthropology)

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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.

Table of Contents:
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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520255524
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Series Title: 20 California Series in Public Anthropology
  • Weight: 467 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0520255526
  • Publisher Date: 02 Sep 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa
  • Width: 152 mm


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