Unimagined community : sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa / Robert J. Thornton

Author:: Thornton, Robert J.
Published:: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
Copyright Date:: ©2008
Physical Description:: xxi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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California series in public anthropology ; 20

Contents:

Introduction: meaning and structure in the study of AIDS -- Comparing Uganda and South Africa: sexual networks, family structure, and property -- The social determinants of sexual network configuration -- The tightening chain: civil society and Uganda's response to HIV/AIDS -- AIDS in Uganda: years of chaos and recovery -- Siliimu as native category: AIDS as local knowledge in Uganda -- Uganda"s indigenization of AIDS: governance and the political response in Uganda -- South Africa's struggle: the omission and commission of truth about AIDS -- Imagining AIDS: South Africa's viral politics -- Flows of sexual substance: the sexual network in South Africa -- Preventing AIDS: a new paradigm for a new strategy.

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ISBN:

9780520255524 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520255526 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520255531 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520255534 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274) and index.

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