Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa: Culture, Healthcare and the State by Bank, Leslie
Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa: Culture, Healthcare and the State by Bank, Leslie

Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa: Culture, Healthcare and the State

This book explores the impact of Covid-19, and the associated state lockdown, on rural lives in a...
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Author: Leslie Bank
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Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa: Culture, Healthcare and the State by Bank, Leslie

Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa: Culture, Healthcare and the State

$562.17
Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa: Culture, Healthcare and the State by Bank, Leslie

Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa: Culture, Healthcare and the State

$562.17
Author: Leslie Bank
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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 Africa's 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 Africa applies long-term historical and ethnographic research; theories of people's 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 homelands-commonly, yet problematically, represented as former labor reserves-have since been reconstituted as new home-spaces. In short, it explains why rural people have been so angered by the state's assault on their cultural practices and institutions in the time of Covid.


Author: Leslie Bank, Nelly Sharpley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/15/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.60w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780197659618
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