| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages) |
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New African histories series |
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New African histories series
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| Contents |
A puzzling blindspot, a troubling silence, a strange consensus: reflections on the heterosexual norm in "African AIDS" -- The ethnography of African straightness -- Ethnopsychiatry and the making of gay Shaka -- Slim disease and the science of silence -- Alternatives and ambiguities : African voices in literature and film |
| Summary |
Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc Epprecht's previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same-sex desire in southern Africa), to explore the historical processes by which a singular, heterosexual identity for Africa was constructed-by anthropologists, ethnopsychologists, colonial officials, African elites, and most recently, health care workers seeking to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This is an eloquently written, accessible book, based on a rich and diverse range of sources, that will find enthu |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-218) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Homosexuality -- Africa -- History
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Gay people -- Africa -- History
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AIDS (Disease) -- Africa
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HIV infections -- Africa
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HIV infections.
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Homosexuality -- history
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Ethnopsychology
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HIV Infections
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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AIDS (Disease)
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Gay people
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HIV infections
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Homosexuality
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Manners and customs
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Politics and government
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Homosexualität
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Aids
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Homosexualität.
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Homosexueller.
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Soziale Situation.
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Aids.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Social life and customs
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Africa -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001570
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Africa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001531
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Africa |
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Africa
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Afrika
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Afrika.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008009908 |
| ISBN |
9780821442982 |
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0821442988 |
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