Human Rights Protected?
Human Rights Protected?

Author: University of Pretoria. AIDS and Human Rights Research Unit

Publisher: PULP

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 0980265878

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The book covers the following topics: access to health care, privacy, non discrimination, labour rights, womens rights, childrens rights, and prisoners rights.

Crossroads of Culture
Crossroads of Culture

Author: Lindland, Eric

Publisher: Mzuni Press

Published: 2020-02-27

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 9996060411

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Combining history, ethnography, and culture theory, this book explores how residents in northwestern Malawi have responded over time to the early missionary assertion that local religious and healing practices were incompatible with Christianity and western medicine. It details how local agents, in the past and today, have constructed new cultural forms that weave facets of ancestral spiritualism and divination with Christianity and biomedicine. Alongside a rich historical review of the late-19th century encounter between Tumbuka-speakers and the Scottish Presbyterians of the Livingstonia Mission, the book explores the contemporary therapeutic dance complex known as Vimbuza and considers two case studies, each the story of a man confronting illness and struggling to understand the roots and meaning of his affliction. In the process, the book considers the enduring missiological and anthropological topics of conversion and syncretism, and questions the assertion by some scholars that Western missionaries in Africa have been successful agents of religious hegemony.

Development, Sexual Cultural Practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa
Development, Sexual Cultural Practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa

Author: Samantha Page

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-12-19

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 3030041190

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This open access book introduces the theoretical frameworks and academic debates concerning sexual cultural practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa. It shows how these frameworks have been applied in a practical sense in Africa to investigate sexual cultural practices and their link with HIV/AIDS. The author provides an overview of both the field of study and the methods used during fieldwork. Finally, it assesses the implications of the findings for the conceptualization and provision of current and future HIV/AIDS policies and programs in Africa. This monograph will appeal to policy makers and practitioners working in the field of HIV/AIDS in the Global South as well as academics and students.