I Gave My Child Life but I Also Gave Her Death

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ID11618798
AutoresA Irving (0000-0002-5213-8234, University of Manchester, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume22
Fascículo3
Páginas332-350
Data de publicação2011-09-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Australian Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1035-8811 • E-ISSN: 1757-6547
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1757-6547.2011.00149.x
OpenAlexW1861529379
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas22

The capacity for a complex inner life—encompassing inner speech, imaginative reverie and unarticulated moods—is an essential feature of living with illness and a principal means through which people interpret, understand and manage their condition. Nevertheless, as Nigel Rapport has pointed out in a recent edition of The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2008: 19 (3)), interiority largely remains a ‘terra‐incognita’ for social science, while anthropology lacks a generally accepted theory or methodological framework for understanding how interiority relates to people’s public actions and expressions. Moreover, as conventional social‐scientific methods are often too static to understand the fluidity of perception among people living with illness or bodily instability, I argue we need to develop new, practical approaches to knowing. By placing the problem of interiority directly into the field and turning it into an ethnographic, practice‐based question to be addressed through fieldwork in collaboration with informants, this article works alongside women living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda with the aim of capturing the unvoiced but sometimes radical changes in being, belief and perception that accompany terminal illness

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