Collective Care: Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS Contributor(s): Downe, Pamela (Author) |
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ISBN: 1487587635 ISBN-13: 9781487587635 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Physical - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6" W x 9" (0.50 lbs) 176 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Collective Care provides an ethnographic account of urban Indigenous life and caregiving practices in the face of Saskatchewan's HIV epidemic. Based on a five-year study conducted in partnership with AIDS Saskatoon, the book focuses on the contrast between Indigenous values of collective kin-care and non-Indigenous models of intensive maternal care. It explores how women and men negotiate the forces of HIV to render motherhood a site of cultural meaning, personal and collective well-being, and, sometimes, individual and community despair. It also introduces readers to how HIV is Indigenized in western Canada and how all HIV-affected and -infected mothers must negotiate this cultural and racialized terrain. Featuring in-depth narrative interviews, notes from participant observation in AIDS Saskatoon's drop-in centre, and a photovoice component, this book offers an accessible account of an engaged anthropologist's work with a community that is both vulnerable and resilient. Each chapter begins with an ethnographic vignette that introduces central concepts, including medical anthropology, syndemics, kinship, and Indigeneity, with the overall aim of humanizing those affected by HIV in western Canada and beyond. |