Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS

by Kristen Cheney

Book Overview

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation. Over the past twenty years, international NGOs and charities have devoted immense attention to the millions of African children orphaned by the disease. But in Crying for Our Elders, anthropologist Kristen E. Cheney argues that these humanitarian groups have misread the 'orphan crisis'. She explains how the global humanitarian focus on orphanhood often elides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022643754X
• ISBN13: 9780226437545
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"