Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic: Letters from Uganda (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology) - Softcover

Buch 12 von 17: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology

Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard

 
9783030475253: Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic: Letters from Uganda (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3030475255 ISBN 13: 9783030475253
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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insight into the ethical challenges of a research method that demands personal involvement that is ultimately withdrawn for scholarly analysis. 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hanne Overgaard Mogensen is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. She has published broadly on international health, poverty and access to health care in Africa, as well as on the moral world of anthropologists both inside and outside of academia.

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<p>‘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 with people who are poor, sick and concerned with maintaining control over knowledge about their lives.'&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p>—Susan Reynolds Whyte, Professor of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark</p><p>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.&nbsp;<br></p>

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3030475255
ISBN 13 
9783030475253
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Auflage
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