Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa e-bog
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This book explores the impact of Covid-19, and the associated state lockdown, on rural lives in a former homeland in South Africa. The 2020 Disaster Management Act saw the state sweep through rural areas, targeting funerals and other customary practices as potential super-spreader events. This unprecedented clampdown produced widespread disruption, fear and anxiety. The authors build on path-br...
E-bog
165,78 DKK
Forlag
Hurst Publishers
Udgivet
9 juni 2022
Længde
320 sider
Genrer
Anthropology
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781787388727
This book explores the impact of Covid-19, and the associated state lockdown, on rural lives in a former homeland in South Africa. The 2020 Disaster Management Act saw the state sweep through rural areas, targeting funerals and other customary practices as potential super-spreader events. This unprecedented clampdown produced widespread disruption, fear and anxiety. The authors build on path-breaking work concerning local responses to West Africas Ebola epidemic, and examine the HIV/AIDS pandemic, to understand the impact of the Covid crisis on these communities, and on rural Africa more broadly.To shed light on the role of custom and ritual in rural social change during the pandemic,Covid and Custom in Rural South Africaapplies long-term historical and ethnographic research; theories of peoples science, local knowledge and the human economy; and fieldwork conducted in ten rural South African communities during lockdown. The volume highlights differences between developments in Southern Africa and elsewhere on the continent, while exploring how the former apartheid homelandscommonly, yet problematically, represented as former labour reserveshave since been reconstituted as new home-spaces. In short, it explains why rural people have been so angered by the states assault on their cultural practices and institutions in the time of Covid.