000			02037nam a22003257a 4500
999			_c57118 _d57118
003			IN-MiVU
005			20190904114945.0
006			m|||||o||d| 00| 0
007			cr uuu---uuuuu
008			180503s2011 xxu||||go|||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780511842580 ( e-book )
040			_aMAIN _beng _cIN-MiVU
041	0		_aeng
100	1		_aMcNeill, Fraser G.
245	0	0	_aAIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa [ electronic resource ] / _cby Fraser G. McNeill.
260			_bCambridge University Press, _c2011
440		0	_aThe International African Library (42)
520			_aThis book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, demonstrating 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 - and incorporated into - local understandings of health, illness, sex and death. Through the songs of female initiation, AIDS education and wandering minstrels, the book argues that music is central to understanding how AIDS interventions operate. This book elucidates a hidden world of meaning in which people sing about what they cannot talk about, where educators are blamed for spreading the virus, and in which condoms are often thought to cause AIDS. The policy implications are clear: African worldviews must be taken seriously if AIDS interventions in Africa are to become successful.
650	1	0	_aPolitics and International Relations
650	1	0	_aSocial and Cultural Anthropology
650		0	_aAnthropology
650	1	0	_aAfrican Government
650	1	0	_aPolitics and Policy
650	1	0	_aArea Studies
650	1	0	_aAfrican Studies
650	1	0	_aAnthropology: General Interest
655		4	_aElectronic books
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511842580 _yhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511842580 _zView to click
942			_2ddc _cEB