Title Pandemic kinship : families, intervention, and social change in Botswana's time of AIDS / Koreen M. Reece

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 308 pages) : illustrations Series The international African library ; 67 International African library ; 67. 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 Summary 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 that care - like other aspects of Tswana kinship - is routinely in crisis, and that the creative ways families navigate such crises make them kin. In Setswana, conflict and crisis are glossed as dikgang, and negotiating dikgang is an ethical practice that generates and reorients kin relations over time. Governmental and non-governmental organisations often misread the creativity of crisis, intervening in ways that may prove more harmful than the problems they set out to solve. Moving between family discussions, community events, and the daily work of orphan care projects and social work offices, Pandemic Kinship provides provocative insights into how we manage change in pandemic times Analysis African studies social and cultural anthropology Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 24, 2022) Subject Families -- Botswana Kinship -- Botswana Community life -- Botswana Crisis management -- Botswana Epidemics -- Social aspects -- Botswana AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Botswana HISTORY / Africa / General. AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects Community life Crisis management Epidemics -- Social aspects Families Kinship Social conditions SUBJECT Botswana -- Social conditions -- 21st century Subject Botswana Form Electronic book LC no. 2021045130 ISBN 9781009150200 1009150200

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