AIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa

by Fraser G. McNeill

Book Overview

This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Based on a more than fifteen years association with the region, it demonstrates why AIDS interventions in the former homeland of Venda have failed - and possibly even been counterproductive. It does so through a series of ethnographic encounters, from kings to condoms, which expose the ways in which biomedical understanding of the virus have been rejected by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107417562
• ISBN13: 9781107417564
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"