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- catalog abstract "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. 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. Timely and well-researched, A Plague of Paradoxes is an extended case study of the most serious epidemic of the twentieth century and the cultural circumstances out of which it emerged. It is a unique book that brings together anthropology, demography, and epidemiology to explain how a particular community in Africa experiences AIDS.".
- catalog alternative "Paradoxes".
- catalog contributor b11328723.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Hey, Listen!" -- Not a Promised Land: Historical Instabilities in Social Reproduction -- Population, Men, and Movement: (M)oral Demographies of Desire and Risk -- Personhood and the Pragmatics of Desire -- The "Acquired Income Deficiency Syndrome" -- An Epidemic of Clarity, a Disease of Confusion: Profession and Popular Epidemiologies of AIDS -- Conclusions without Closure.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-294) and index.".
- catalog description "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. 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. Timely and well-researched, A Plague of Paradoxes is an extended case study of the most serious epidemic of the twentieth century and the cultural circumstances out of which it emerged. It is a unique book that brings together anthropology, demography, and epidemiology to explain how a particular community in Africa experiences AIDS.".
- catalog extent "x, 308 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226748855 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226748863 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Worlds of desire".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog spatial "Tanzania.".
- catalog subject "2000 B-386".
- catalog subject "362.1/969792/00967826 21".
- catalog subject "AIDS (Disease) Tanzania.".
- catalog subject "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Tanzania.".
- catalog subject "Chaga (African people)".
- catalog subject "Ethnic Groups Tanzania.".
- catalog subject "RA644.A25 S378 1999".
- catalog subject "WC 503 S495p 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents ""Hey, Listen!" -- Not a Promised Land: Historical Instabilities in Social Reproduction -- Population, Men, and Movement: (M)oral Demographies of Desire and Risk -- Personhood and the Pragmatics of Desire -- The "Acquired Income Deficiency Syndrome" -- An Epidemic of Clarity, a Disease of Confusion: Profession and Popular Epidemiologies of AIDS -- Conclusions without Closure.".
- catalog title "A plague of paradoxes : AIDS, culture, and demography in northern Tanzania / Philip W. Setel.".
- catalog title "Paradoxes".
- catalog type "text".