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Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic: Letters from Uganda

Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic: Letters from Uganda

Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 3030475220
ISBN13: 9783030475222
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 30 2020
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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insight into the ethical challenges of a research method that demands personal involvement that is ultimately withdrawn for scholarly analysis.

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