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Reece, Koreen:
Telling Families, Telling AIDS : Narratives of Crisis in Botswana.
In: Ethnos : Journal of Anthropology.
Vol. 88
(2023)
Issue 5
.
- pp. 972-993.
ISSN 1469-588X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2021.1965640
Abstract in another language
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.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | Kinship; stories; crisis; HIV; AIDS; Botswana |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Social Anthropology Profile Fields > Advanced Fields > African Studies Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies Profile Fields Profile Fields > Advanced Fields |
| Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2022 09:38 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2023 13:23 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/70685 |