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UNINA9910411922703321 |
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Autore |
Mogensen Hanne Overgaard |
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Titolo |
Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic : Letters from Uganda / / by Hanne Overgaard Mogensen |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology, , 2946-4226 |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnology |
Medical anthropology |
Ethnology - Africa |
Culture |
Sociocultural Anthropology |
Medical Anthropology |
Ethnography |
African Culture |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface -- Chapter 1: The Missing Letters -- Chapter 2: Girls with Fast Legs -- Chapter 3: Women on the Move -- Chapter 4: Intersecting Trajectories -- Chapter 5: Questions of Belonging -- Chapter 6: Stories that Alter Life -- Chapter 7: Dying Poor -- Chapter 8: Feeling Stuck -- Chapter 9: Closeness and Distance -- Chapter 10: Knowing what to Hide -- Chapter 11: The Order of Secrecy -- Chapter 12: Shifting Secrets -- Chapter 13: Whose Responsibility - and what Happened to the Letters? -- Chapter 14: Moving on. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'This is a beautiful, sad, hopeful, thought-provoking book that reads like a novel and is one of the best texts I know on the intricacies of doing close-in ethnographic fieldwork. It is rare to find such rich ethnography together with such a superb account of how it was assembled. It sensitively considers ethical dilemmas of doing fieldwork |
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with people who are poor, sick and concerned with maintaining control over knowledge about their lives.' -Susan Reynolds Whyte, Professor of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark A narrative ethnography about a Ugandan woman and her relatives, this novelistic, fine-grained volume shows how global questions of responsibility and inequity travel in family networks and confront people with decisions about life and death. It is a story of existence under extremely challenging conditions, about belonging and marginalization, about the opacity and ambiguity of social relations, and about growing up in a country haunted by violence and civil war only to be later lifted by optimism and devastated anew by the AIDS epidemic. The story draws on long-term fieldwork and letters from the woman who takes centre stage in the story, while at once providing unique and privileged insight into the ethical challenges of a research method that demands personal involvement that is ultimately withdrawn for scholarly analysis. . |
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