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This 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

Preliminary Material /S.R. Blanshei -- Introduction /S.R. Blanshei -- Chapter One /S.R. Blanshei -- Chapter Two. Oligarchy: Councils Of The Commune /S.R. Blanshei -- Chapter Three. Oligarchy: Councils Of The Popolo /S.R. Blanshei -- Chapter Four /S.R. Blanshei -- Chapter Five. The Politicization Of Criminal Justice /S.R. Blanshei -- Epilogue /S.R. Blanshei -- Map Of Bologna /S.R. Blanshei -- Appendices /S.R. Blanshei -- Bibliography /S.R. Blanshei -- Index /S.R. Blanshei.

Christianity: Orthodoxy and others -- Islam: Sunnis and Shi'ites in cultural perspective -- Judaism: from persecution to revival -- Buddhism: cultural variations -- Old and new religious movements: Burkhanism and Falun Gong -- Shamanism: syncretism and revival of traditional worldviews

Introduction -- Transition and the performance of retroactive justice -- From Antigone to Orpheus : alternative myths and figures of mourning -- Performing confessions onstage and on the stand -- Argentina's postdictatorial stages : resting places and places of unrest -- Argentina's middle class : paradigm of crisis and renewal -- Intergenerational memory and performative acts of recovery -- Conclusion