| Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic: Letters from Uganda 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030475255 ISBN-13: 9783030475253 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Physical |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.80 lbs) 246 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A narrative ethnography about a Ugandan woman and her relatives, this novelistic, fine-grained volume shows how global questions of responsibility and inequity travel in family networks and confront people with decisions about life and death. It is a story of existence under extremely challenging conditions, about belonging and marginalization, about the opacity and ambiguity of social relations, and about growing up in a country haunted by violence and civil war only to be later lifted by optimism and devastated anew by the AIDS epidemic. The story draws on long-term fieldwork and letters from the woman who takes centre stage in the story, while at once providing unique and privileged insight into the ethical challenges of a research method that demands personal involvement that is ultimately withdrawn for scholarly analysis. |