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This collection of essays examines the relatively new, and frequently overlooked, political phenomenon in post-colonial Africa of chieftaincy "re-inventing" itself. The traditional authority of chiefs has been one of Africa's missing voices who are now bringing new resources to the challenges that AIDS, gender, governance, and development pose to the peoples of Africa. Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance, and Development presents new research in Ghana, Botswana, and South Africa, providing the broadest geographic African coverage on the topic of African chieftaincy. The nineteen authors, many of them emerging scholars from Africa, are all members of the Traditional Authority Applied Research Network (TAARN). Their essays give critical insight into the transformation processes of chieftaincy from the end of the colonial/apartheid periods to the present. They also examine the realities of male and female traditional leaders in reinventing their legitimacy and their political offices in the age of great social and political unrest, health issues and governance and development challenges. With contribtutions by: Kusi Ankra Sherri A. Brown Wilhelmina J. Donkoh Gaelle Eizlini Brian Keating Kereng Daniel Lebogang Kgotleng Mogopodi H. Lekorwe Sibongiseni Mkhize Mpho F. Moloma Morgan Nyendu Christiane Owusu-Sarpong Donald I. Ray Kimberley Schoon Keshav C. Sharma Mpilo Pearl Sithole Robert Thornton Shahid Vawda.

Chiefdoms --- Tribal government --- Ghana --- South Africa --- Botswana --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions --- Political science --- Tribes --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Political anthropology --- Batsvana --- Bociwana --- Bocvana --- Bocvano --- Botsouana --- Botsuana --- Botsuwana --- Botsvana --- Botsvana Cumhuriyeti --- Botsvana Respublikası --- Botsvanas Republika --- Botsvanos Respublika --- Botswana Vabariik --- Botswanako Errepublika --- Botswanan tasavalta --- Botswanská republika --- Cộng hoà Botswana --- Dēmokratia tēs Botsouanas --- GOB --- Gweriniaeth Botswana --- Jamhuri ya Botswana --- Lefatshe la Botswana --- Lýðveldið Botsvana --- Repaboliki ya Botswana --- Repubblica del Botswana --- Republic of Botswana --- Republica de Botsuana --- República do Botsuana --- República do Botswana --- Republiek Botswana --- Republiek van Botswana --- Republik Botsuana --- Republik Botswana --- Republika Bocvana --- Republika Botswany --- Republika ng Botswana --- Republiken Botswana --- Republikken Botswana --- République du Botswana --- Rėspublika Batsvana --- Respublika Botsvana --- Respubliko Bocvano --- Μποτσουάνα --- Δημοκρατία της Μποτσουάνας --- Рэспубліка Батсвана --- Республика Ботсвана --- Республіка Ботсвана --- Република Боцвана --- Батсвана --- Ботсвана --- Боцвана --- ボツワナ --- 博茨瓦纳 --- Bechuanaland Protectorate

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Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours, and community, Pandemic Kinship provides an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana's time of AIDS. It challenges assumptions about a 'crisis of care' unfolding in the wake of the pandemic, showing that care - like other aspects of Tswana kinship - is routinely in crisis, and that the creative ways families navigate such crises make them kin. In Setswana, conflict and crisis are glossed as dikgang, and negotiating dikgang is an ethical practice that generates and reorients kin relations over time. Governmental and non-governmental organisations often misread the creativity of crisis, intervening in ways that may prove more harmful than the problems they set out to solve. Moving between family discussions, community events, and the daily work of orphan care projects and social work offices, Pandemic Kinship provides provocative insights into how we manage change in pandemic times.

Families --- AIDS (Disease) --- Epidemics --- Crisis management --- Community life --- Kinship --- Social aspects --- Botswana --- Social conditions --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Kin recognition --- Management --- Problem solving --- Conflict management --- Crises --- Management of crises --- Communicable diseases --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Outbreaks --- Batsvana --- Bociwana --- Bocvana --- Bocvano --- Botsouana --- Botsuana --- Botsuwana --- Botsvana --- Botsvana Cumhuriyeti --- Botsvana Respublikası --- Botsvanas Republika --- Botsvanos Respublika --- Botswana Vabariik --- Botswanako Errepublika --- Botswanan tasavalta --- Botswanská republika --- Cộng hoà Botswana --- Dēmokratia tēs Botsouanas --- GOB --- Gweriniaeth Botswana --- Jamhuri ya Botswana --- Lefatshe la Botswana --- Lýðveldið Botsvana --- Repaboliki ya Botswana --- Repubblica del Botswana --- Republic of Botswana --- Republica de Botsuana --- República do Botsuana --- República do Botswana --- Republiek Botswana --- Republiek van Botswana --- Republik Botsuana --- Republik Botswana --- Republika Bocvana --- Republika Botswany --- Republika ng Botswana --- Republiken Botswana --- Republikken Botswana --- République du Botswana --- Rėspublika Batsvana --- Respublika Botsvana --- Respubliko Bocvano --- Μποτσουάνα --- Δημοκρατία της Μποτσουάνας --- Рэспубліка Батсвана --- Республика Ботсвана --- Республіка Ботсвана --- Република Боцвана --- Батсвана --- Ботсвана --- Боцвана --- ボツワナ --- 博茨瓦纳 --- Bechuanaland Protectorate --- African studies --- social and cultural anthropology