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  1. ‘She's just like my mother’: measuring motherhood in the context of the HIV epidemic in South Africa

    ‘She's just like my mother’: measuring motherhood in the context of the HIV epidemic in South Africa

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Naomi Marshak --- Department of Social Anthropology,
    This paper emerges from an ethnographic study conducted in Kwazulu-Natal in 2010 that explored the practices of a humanitarian intervention providing psychosocial support for and strengthening of the bonds between orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV and their non-biological...
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  2. Marriage, kinship and childcare in the aftermath of AIDS: rethinking “orphanhood” in the South African lowveld

    Marriage, kinship and childcare in the aftermath of AIDS: rethinking “orphanhood” in the South African lowveld

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Isak Niehaus --- Anthropology Division, United Kingdom
    In this article I consider the significance of marriage from the vantage point of children’s affiliation to domestic units during the era of South Africa’s AIDS pandemic. Drawing on multi-temporal fieldwork in Impalahoek, a village in the Bushbuckridge municipality of...
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