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Reece, Koreen:
Telling Families, Telling AIDS : Narratives of Crisis in Botswana.
In: Ethnos : Journal of Anthropology.
Bd. 88
(2023)
Heft 5
.
- S. 972-993.
ISSN 1469-588X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2021.1965640
Abstract
This article examines how families tell crisis, how non-governmental organisations tell it, and what a comparison offers for ethnographers of crisis. In Botswana’s time of AIDS, families tell the stories of those they’ve lost in collaborative, fragmented, and mediated ways. Where words have risky intersubjective effects – especially among kin – family stories both produce and contain their danger, thereby generating selves and relationships. Tales told by orphan care NGOs draw on different language ideologies, to different ends: they focus on the crisis of AIDS, its causes and effects, to generate solutions and legitimacy – potentially disrupting family tellings. I argue that ethnographies of crisis deploy a similar, EuroAmerican, narrative logic: they focus on crisis in order to generate change. But this approach may obscure the lived experience of crisis, and foreclose creative response. I propose specific ways that anthropologists might experiment with ‘non-crisis narrations’ [Roitman, Janet. 2013. Anti-Crisis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.] instead, taking family tales as inspiration.
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| Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Keywords: | Kinship; stories; crisis; HIV; AIDS; Botswana |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Sozialanthropologie Profilfelder > Advanced Fields > Afrikastudien Fakultäten Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Profilfelder Profilfelder > Advanced Fields |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| Eingestellt am: | 21 Jul 2022 09:38 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 21 Nov 2023 13:23 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/70685 |