Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Unseen Things offers a host of fascinating and touching insights into the intimate lives of women living with HIV in Northern Nigeria. Rhine uses women's own words to convey their yearning for mutually supportive relationships, children and respectability. Her graceful theoretical interventions are nuanced without overpowering the ethnographic material. Because of its accessible style, this affordable text should be of interest not only to anthropologists and historians of medicine, but also to health practitioners and students.
* Africa *
The Unseen Things is a carefully researched and beautifully presented account of personal experiences which are oft en hidden. As such, beyond a general anthropology readership, it is a helpful resource for HIV and other professionals working in the Nigerian or West African context.
* Anthropology in Action *
Rhine's exceptionally clear writing and sensitivity to her interlocutors' views of themselves, their own actions, and their world lend themselves to a text that can readily serve as a gateway for the discipline. Readers more familiar with Rhine's objects of study, on the other hand, will find she provides a more nuanced and sustained engagement with the key elements of her argument and relevant anthropological literature in the notes.
* American Anthropologist *
This book is highly recommended to help understand the cultural, economic, social, and religious factors that interfere with the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS globally.
* Choice *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Things Unseen
1. First Loves
2. Twice Married
3. Dilemmas of Disclosure
4. Intimate Ethics
5. Hope
Conclusion: Evidence and Substance
Notes
Bibliography
Index
