AIDS and religious practice in Africa /
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This volume explores how AIDS is understood, confronted and lived with through religious ideas and practices, and how these, in turn, are reinterpreted and changed by the experience of AIDS. Examining the social production, and productivity, of AIDS - linking bodily and spiritual experiences, and religious, medical, political and economic discourses - the papers counter simplified notions of causal effects of AIDS on religion (or vice versa). Instead, they display people's resourcefulness in their struggle to move ahead in spite of adversity. This relativises the vision of doom widely associated with the African AIDS epidemic; and it allows to see AIDS, instead of a singular event, as the culmination of a century-long process of changing livelihoods, bodily well-being and spiritual imaginaries.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047442691 :
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Parasitic diseases in Africa and the Western Hemisphere : early documentation and transmission by the slave trade /
: "The investigation on which this book is based was supported by the Public Health Service, research grant no. AI-05556, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, United States Public Health Service, to the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine." : xii, 240 pages, [23] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : .alaa-sweed