A Kinship of Bones: AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal by Patricia Henderson [New]

ISBN: 9781869142469 / 1869142462 - A Kinship of Bones: AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal by Patricia Henderson. Published by UKZN Press, 2012. Softcover. New. 256 pp.

From 2003 to 2006 Patricia Henderson lived in Okhahlamba in the region of the Northern Drakensberg, where she recorded the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS. In this illuminating study, she explores the local repertoires through which illness was folded into everyday life.

The book spans a period when anti-retroviral medication was not available, and moves on to a time when the treatment became accessible. Hope gradually became manifest in the recovery of a number of people through anti-retroviral therapies and ‘the return’ of bodies they could recognise as their own. The research implies the protracted interaction with people over time, and offers insights into the unfolding textures of everyday life, in particular its focus on suffering, social and structural inequality, illness, violence, mourning, sensibility, care and intimacy.

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