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Iraqw (African people) --- Human geography --- Space and time --- Espace et temps --- Folklore --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- -Iraqw (African people) --- -Space and time --- Space of more than three dimensions --- Space-time --- Space-time continuum --- Space-times --- Spacetime --- Time and space --- Fourth dimension --- Infinite --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Space sciences --- Time --- Beginning --- Hyperspace --- Relativity (Physics) --- Erokh (African people) --- Irakov (African people) --- Mbulu (African people) --- Wambulu (African tribe) --- Ethnology --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Space and time. --- Folklore. --- Iraqw (African people).
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This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990's in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while during the same period HIV prevalence rose in South Africa, the country with Africa's lowest fertility rate. Thornton finds that culturally and socially determined differences in the structure of sexual networks-rather than changes in individual behavior-were responsible for these radical differences in HIV prevalence. Incorporating such factors as property, mobility, social status, and political authority into our understanding of AIDS transmission, Thornton's analysis also suggests new avenues for fighting the disease worldwide.
AIDS (Disease) --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Epidemiology. --- Social aspects --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A9 --- Epidemiology --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Sida --- Epidémiologie --- Aspect social --- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Health Policy --- Sexual Behavior --- Socioeconomic Factors --- epidemiology --- prevention & control --- methods --- 20th century south african history. --- 20th century ugandan history. --- african history. --- aids in africa. --- aids prevention. --- aids transmission. --- aids. --- anthropology. --- civil society. --- disease. --- doctor. --- family structure. --- fertility rate. --- global disaster. --- healthcare. --- hiv prevalence. --- hiv. --- individual behavior. --- local knowledge. --- medicine. --- mobility. --- omission. --- political authority. --- political response. --- politics. --- property. --- sex. --- sexual networks. --- sexual transmission. --- social status. --- south africa. --- uganda.
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This ethnography explores the Ngoma healing tradition as practiced in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa. 'Bungoma' is an active philosophical system and healing practice consisting of multiple strands, based on the notion that humans are intrinsically exposed to each other and that this is the cause of illness, but also the condition for the possibility of healing. This healing seeks to protect the 'exposed being' from harm through augmenting the self. Unlike Western medicine, it does not seek to cure physical ailments but aims to prevent suffering by allowing patients to transform their personal narratives of Self. Like Western medicine, it is empirical and is presented as a 'local knowledge' that amounts to a practical anthropology of human conflict and the environment. The book seeks to bring this anthropology and its therapeutic applications into relation with global academic anthropology by explaining it through political, economic, interpretive, and environmental lenses.
Rites and ceremonies --- Healing --- Traditional medicine --- Ethnic medicine --- Ethnomedicine --- Folk medicine --- Home cures --- Home medicine --- Home remedies --- Indigenous medicine --- Medical folklore --- Medicine, Primitive --- Primitive medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Alternative medicine --- Folklore --- Medical anthropology --- Ethnopharmacology --- Curing (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual
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