Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic Letters from Uganda

‘This is a beautiful, sad, hopeful, thought-provoking book that reads like a novel and is one of the best texts I know on the intricacies of doing close-in ethnographic fieldwork. It is rare to find such rich ethnography together with such a superb account of how it was assembled. It sensitively con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2020, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
Series:Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: The Missing Letters
  • Chapter 2: Girls with Fast Legs
  • Chapter 3: Women on the Move
  • Chapter 4: Intersecting Trajectories
  • Chapter 5: Questions of Belonging
  • Chapter 6: Stories that Alter Life
  • Chapter 7: Dying Poor
  • Chapter 8: Feeling Stuck
  • Chapter 9: Closeness and Distance
  • Chapter 10: Knowing what to Hide
  • Chapter 11: The Order of Secrecy
  • Chapter 12: Shifting Secrets
  • Chapter 13: Whose Responsibility – and what Happened to the Letters?
  • Chapter 14: Moving on