By Robert Thornton
This groundbreaking paintings, with its exact anthropological strategy, sheds new gentle on a critical conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV occurrence fell through the Nineteen Nineties in Uganda regardless of that country's having considered one of Africa's maximum fertility charges, whereas throughout the related interval HIV occurrence rose in South Africa, the rustic with Africa's lowest fertility expense. Thornton unearths that Read more...
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Extra resources for Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa
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Indeed, entry into sexual activity is a life crisis handled in many different ways by different cultures and different ages. These features have scarcely been theorized in cultural terms, primarily because the field has been monopolized by psychological, medical, and biological understandings of sex. In order to intervene effectively and where necessary, we must first understand the cultural value of sex. What we seek in the case of AIDS is an understanding of how the meaningful act of sex — quintessentially private, personal, intimate, local, and familial — is magnified by the presence of a new lethal virus to worldwide historical proportions.
For instance, the early development of an indigenous cultural category for AIDS in Uganda, slim or siliimu, went a long way toward making it possible for Uganda to develop an early indigenous response. In South Africa, deep cultural values of what I call flows of sexual substance provide an alternative way of seeing HIV in the body for traditionalists in South Africa (especially traditional healers, sangomas, and their clients). The central problem of this book, then, concerns the structure of the social and cultural context of HIV transmission.
It also is a social disease like no other because it moves through and by means of social structures and because only social and cultural measures can (so far) prevent it or slow its progress. Thus, the sexual network, although largely invisible, is unlike the invisible networks that link people in other epidemics. The networks through which the virus flows are not easily disrupted by public health initiatives, and wealth alone has no impact on its spread. Only humans are potential threats to others, and only, for the most part, when engaging in what is among the most fundamental and valuable of human pursuits.
