Patricia Henderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Henderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Henderson |
| SIGNATURE | HENDERSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Adaptation of a brief smoke-free homes intervention for American Indian and Alaska Native families
Adaptation of an intervention to create smoke-free homes in AI/AN families necessitated both surface structure changes such as appearance of role models and deep structure changes that addressed core values, and beliefs and traditions
Cloth as a membrane of the imagination in the artwork of Mary Sibande
This paper brings future-orientated theories of becoming to bear on the work of artist Mary Sibande. Contemporary social theory is increasingly interested in how human life and matter join in vital forms of assemblage. In relation to Sibande’s work in particular, I explore her sculptures and images in terms of the interplay between body, skin, cloth and the world. I suggest that these interminglings enable forms of transfer between inner longings…
Ancestors and antiretrovirals
2015). Ancestors and antiretrovirals: the biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in post-apartheid South Africa. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 38, No. 1-2, pp. 154-157
Exit/Exist
The paper explores life-giving qualities of creativity and self-stylisation in the performance art and dance of contemporary South African choreographer Gregory Maqoma. Placing his performance Exit/Exist in conversation with social theories of becoming, desire and futurity explored in the work of anthropologists Elizabeth Povinelli and Henrietta Moore, and the philosopher Elizabeth Grosz, the paper gestures towards a vitalist understanding of soc…
Not knowing endings
As part of thinking about how life materialises in our work, four contributors — Fiona Ross (FR), Patricia Henderson (PH), Kathleen Lorne McDougall (KLM) and Thomas Cousins (TC) — met at a two-day workshop in June 2014. From our recorded discussion, we've crafted an epilogue that explores connections and points of productive divergence in the papers. It traces our engagement with the history of political-economic understandings of social life in …
Aids, metaphor and ritual
Based on a two-year study of 31 young people aged 14-20 who had lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS, in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the article draws on an in-depth ethnographic account of a 17-year-old girl's life process. It traces forms of care between adults and children within her family across several generations, exploring how social repertoires and forms of ritual pre-dating the HIV/AIDS epidemic are brought to bear on relationshi…
Aids, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal
The illegal sale of medication from a public health facility Beginning a journey with antiretroviral therapies Conclusion * Note that ingculaza, the Zulu word for AIDS, is also sometimes spelt with an 'i' as the last letter of the word.(See, for example, Roman Khumalo's poem in Chapter Two.) ** In isiZulu, gciwane is the word used to translate the English word, germ.It is also the term used for the human immunodeficiency virus.Its everyday meanin…
South African Aids Orphans
The article examines assumptions circulating in development or interventionist discourse concerning the vulnerabilities of AIDS orphans in South Africa. Ongoing ethnographic research, begun in March 2003, with 31 rural children and youth between the ages of 14 and 22, in Magangangozi, KwaZulu-Natal, points to the ways in which global terms may fail to describe local particularities. Too narrow a focus on the vulnerabilities of AIDS orphans obscur…
A Gift without Shortcomings
The paper will examine the idea of citizenship from the point of view of two healers, an inyanga and isangoma, one of whom is HIV positive, who live in the remote Okhahlamba region of South Africa. It will therefore provide a view of citizenship from below. The ways in which both healers explore their relationship with the world beyond Okhahlamba illustrates their personal wanderings beyond local environments and the ambivalence with which the wi…
Mortality and the ethics of qualitative research in a context of HIV/Aids
Utilising the story of one man suffering' from HIV/AIDS, the article explores ethical relationship between researchers and an interlocutor over a two-year period in Okhahlamba, the Drakensberg—a remote region populated by Zulu-speakers. Drawing on the philosophical work of Emmanuel Levinas, and Alphonso Lingis, the paper argues for the importance of pre-empting too quick an understanding of illness and suffering, for allowing space for the ill to…
The vertiginous body and social metamorphosis in a context of HIV/Aids
Ethnographic research for this paper was undertaken in the Okhahlamba District in the Drakensberg of South Africa and formed part of an on-going five-year project focussing on people's everyday experience of living with HIV/AIDS in rural communities. The paper explores metamorphoses of the body in relation to HIV/AIDS, showing how the experience of bodily disintegration is expressed, but also how the falling away of the body is linked to social f…
Curriculum Guide for Training Counseling Supervisors
A standardized curriculum that can be applied to a variety of supervisor training programs is presented. Suggestions for implementation and research are included
Aids, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal
The illegal sale of medication from a public health facility Beginning a journey with antiretroviral therapies Conclusion * Note that ingculaza, the Zulu word for AIDS, is also sometimes spelt with an 'i' as the last letter of the word.(See, for example, Roman Khumalo's poem in Chapter Two.) ** In isiZulu, gciwane is the word used to translate the English word, germ.It is also the term used for the human immunodeficiency virus.Its everyday meanin…
Curriculum Guide for Training Counseling Supervisors
A standardized curriculum that can be applied to a variety of supervisor training programs is presented. Suggestions for implementation and research are included
South African Aids Orphans
The article examines assumptions circulating in development or interventionist discourse concerning the vulnerabilities of AIDS orphans in South Africa. Ongoing ethnographic research, begun in March 2003, with 31 rural children and youth between the ages of 14 and 22, in Magangangozi, KwaZulu-Natal, points to the ways in which global terms may fail to describe local particularities. Too narrow a focus on the vulnerabilities of AIDS orphans obscur…
A Gift without Shortcomings
The paper will examine the idea of citizenship from the point of view of two healers, an inyanga and isangoma, one of whom is HIV positive, who live in the remote Okhahlamba region of South Africa. It will therefore provide a view of citizenship from below. The ways in which both healers explore their relationship with the world beyond Okhahlamba illustrates their personal wanderings beyond local environments and the ambivalence with which the wi…
Mortality and the ethics of qualitative research in a context of HIV/Aids
Utilising the story of one man suffering' from HIV/AIDS, the article explores ethical relationship between researchers and an interlocutor over a two-year period in Okhahlamba, the Drakensberg—a remote region populated by Zulu-speakers. Drawing on the philosophical work of Emmanuel Levinas, and Alphonso Lingis, the paper argues for the importance of pre-empting too quick an understanding of illness and suffering, for allowing space for the ill to…
The vertiginous body and social metamorphosis in a context of HIV/Aids
Ethnographic research for this paper was undertaken in the Okhahlamba District in the Drakensberg of South Africa and formed part of an on-going five-year project focussing on people's everyday experience of living with HIV/AIDS in rural communities. The paper explores metamorphoses of the body in relation to HIV/AIDS, showing how the experience of bodily disintegration is expressed, but also how the falling away of the body is linked to social f…
Aids, metaphor and ritual
Based on a two-year study of 31 young people aged 14-20 who had lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS, in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the article draws on an in-depth ethnographic account of a 17-year-old girl's life process. It traces forms of care between adults and children within her family across several generations, exploring how social repertoires and forms of ritual pre-dating the HIV/AIDS epidemic are brought to bear on relationshi…
Ancestors and antiretrovirals
2015). Ancestors and antiretrovirals: the biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in post-apartheid South Africa. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 38, No. 1-2, pp. 154-157
Curriculum Guide for Training Counseling Supervisors
A standardized curriculum that can be applied to a variety of supervisor training programs is presented. Suggestions for implementation and research are included
The vertiginous body and social metamorphosis in a context of HIV/Aids
Ethnographic research for this paper was undertaken in the Okhahlamba District in the Drakensberg of South Africa and formed part of an on-going five-year project focussing on people's everyday experience of living with HIV/AIDS in rural communities. The paper explores metamorphoses of the body in relation to HIV/AIDS, showing how the experience of bodily disintegration is expressed, but also how the falling away of the body is linked to social f…
A Gift without Shortcomings
The paper will examine the idea of citizenship from the point of view of two healers, an inyanga and isangoma, one of whom is HIV positive, who live in the remote Okhahlamba region of South Africa. It will therefore provide a view of citizenship from below. The ways in which both healers explore their relationship with the world beyond Okhahlamba illustrates their personal wanderings beyond local environments and the ambivalence with which the wi…
Mortality and the ethics of qualitative research in a context of HIV/Aids
Utilising the story of one man suffering' from HIV/AIDS, the article explores ethical relationship between researchers and an interlocutor over a two-year period in Okhahlamba, the Drakensberg—a remote region populated by Zulu-speakers. Drawing on the philosophical work of Emmanuel Levinas, and Alphonso Lingis, the paper argues for the importance of pre-empting too quick an understanding of illness and suffering, for allowing space for the ill to…
South African Aids Orphans
The article examines assumptions circulating in development or interventionist discourse concerning the vulnerabilities of AIDS orphans in South Africa. Ongoing ethnographic research, begun in March 2003, with 31 rural children and youth between the ages of 14 and 22, in Magangangozi, KwaZulu-Natal, points to the ways in which global terms may fail to describe local particularities. Too narrow a focus on the vulnerabilities of AIDS orphans obscur…
Aids, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal
The illegal sale of medication from a public health facility Beginning a journey with antiretroviral therapies Conclusion * Note that ingculaza, the Zulu word for AIDS, is also sometimes spelt with an 'i' as the last letter of the word.(See, for example, Roman Khumalo's poem in Chapter Two.) ** In isiZulu, gciwane is the word used to translate the English word, germ.It is also the term used for the human immunodeficiency virus.Its everyday meanin…
Aids, metaphor and ritual
Based on a two-year study of 31 young people aged 14-20 who had lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS, in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the article draws on an in-depth ethnographic account of a 17-year-old girl's life process. It traces forms of care between adults and children within her family across several generations, exploring how social repertoires and forms of ritual pre-dating the HIV/AIDS epidemic are brought to bear on relationshi…
Exit/Exist
The paper explores life-giving qualities of creativity and self-stylisation in the performance art and dance of contemporary South African choreographer Gregory Maqoma. Placing his performance Exit/Exist in conversation with social theories of becoming, desire and futurity explored in the work of anthropologists Elizabeth Povinelli and Henrietta Moore, and the philosopher Elizabeth Grosz, the paper gestures towards a vitalist understanding of soc…
Not knowing endings
As part of thinking about how life materialises in our work, four contributors — Fiona Ross (FR), Patricia Henderson (PH), Kathleen Lorne McDougall (KLM) and Thomas Cousins (TC) — met at a two-day workshop in June 2014. From our recorded discussion, we've crafted an epilogue that explores connections and points of productive divergence in the papers. It traces our engagement with the history of political-economic understandings of social life in …
Ancestors and antiretrovirals
2015). Ancestors and antiretrovirals: the biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in post-apartheid South Africa. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 38, No. 1-2, pp. 154-157
Cloth as a membrane of the imagination in the artwork of Mary Sibande
This paper brings future-orientated theories of becoming to bear on the work of artist Mary Sibande. Contemporary social theory is increasingly interested in how human life and matter join in vital forms of assemblage. In relation to Sibande’s work in particular, I explore her sculptures and images in terms of the interplay between body, skin, cloth and the world. I suggest that these interminglings enable forms of transfer between inner longings…
Adaptation of a brief smoke-free homes intervention for American Indian and Alaska Native families
Adaptation of an intervention to create smoke-free homes in AI/AN families necessitated both surface structure changes such as appearance of role models and deep structure changes that addressed core values, and beliefs and traditions
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