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A Plague of Paradoxes: AIDS, Culture, and Demography in Northern Tanzania (Worlds of Desire Pdf

A Plague of Paradoxes: AIDS, Culture, and Demography in Northern Tanzania (Worlds of Desire
Author: Philip W. Setel
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0226748863

Since recording its first AIDS cases in 1983, Tanzania has reported nearly 90,000 more to the World Health Organization-more than any other country in Africa. Download A Plague of Paradoxes: AIDS, Culture, and Demography in Northern Tanzania (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. As AIDS spread, the devastating syndrome came to be known simply as ugonjwa huo: "that disease."

The AIDS epidemic has forced Africans to reflect upon the meaning of traditional ideas and practices related to sexuality and fertility, and upon modernity and biomedicine. In A Plague of Paradoxes, anthropologist Philip Setel observes Tanzania's Chagga people and their attempts to cope with and understand AIDS-the latest in a series of crises over which they feel they have little, if any, control.

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