Pandemic Kinship

Koreen M. Reece is Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. She has over fifteen years' experience working in Botswana, first as an advisor to NGO and government responses to the AIDS epidemic, and later as an anthropologist.

• Introduction; Part I. 'Where are you from? Where are you going?': The Geographies of Kinship: 1. Going up and down; 2. 'Ke a Aga': lorato, building; 3. Geographies of intervention; Part II. 'Who is taking care of your things?': Care, Conflict, and the Economies of Kinship: 4. Children of one womb; 5. Taking what belongs to you; 6. Supplementary care; Part III. 'We are seeing things': Recognition, Risk, and reproducing Kinship: 7. Recognising pregnancy; 8. Recognising marriage; 9. Managing recognition in a time of AIDS; Part IV. 'They were far family': Child circulation and the limits of Kinship: 10. Far family; 11. Living outside; 12. Children in need of care; Part V. 'We show people we are together': Making selves, Families, Villages, and Nations: 13. The village in the home: A party; 14. 'Lifting up culture': A homecoming; 15. A global family.

'Drawing on years of intimate involvement with a family in southeastern Botswana, Koreen Reece provides a compelling portrait of how well-intended humanitarian interventions fail to engage with local imperatives to work out conflicts among kin. This is a signal contribution to the literature on kinship and humanitarianism in southern Africa.' Frederick Klaits, University at Buffalo