Ensnared by AIDS: Cultural Contexts of HIV and AIDS In Nepal by David K. Beine PDF

By David K. Beine

How humans make experience of disorder is, partially, culturally decided. latest group ideals and presuppositions are prepared as cultural versions, which “make which means” of recent events resembling the HIV/AIDS epidemic. those cultural buildings may also give a contribution to the unfold of the epidemic. This quantity examines the that means and cultural contexts of HIV/AIDS in Nepal, the place AIDS is comparatively new and swiftly growing to be. formerly little has been identified approximately how Nepalis comprehend the ailment in the neighborhood often called “AIDS rog.” This publication offers the 1st long term box examine of the cultural dimensions of HIV/AIDS in South Asia. It examines how Nepalese cultural types of HIV/AIDS are constructing, in addition to sickness schemata that underlie those types. it truly is one of many few ethnographies of HIV/AIDS to stress the intensity and variety of the people’s view and building of the rising disease. it's also the single HIV/AIDS ethnography to make use of a discourse research (linguistic) process. it's going to be of targeted curiosity to scientific anthropologists, social epidemiologists, and public healthiness execs. it is going to even be of curiosity to cognitive anthropologists, cognitive linguists, and mental anthropologists, since it addresses how humans contain new rules into tested cognitive systems.

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