AIDS Rumour, Intellectual Anxiety, and Discursive Empowerment among Cameroonian Tradipractitioners
| Autor: | Elizabeth Durham |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Archeology
060101 anthropology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Gender studies Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts medicine.disease 050701 cultural studies Terminology Power (social and political) Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) State (polity) Anthropology medicine Anxiety 0601 history and archaeology Narrative Sociology Social science medicine.symptom Empowerment media_common |
| Zdroj: | Ethnos. 83:119-135 |
| ISSN: | 1469-588X 0014-1844 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00141844.2016.1152281 |
| Popis: | This article refines established notions of rumour as a strategy of discursive empowerment by differentiating typologies of empowerment. Specifically, I employ terminology from the anthropological literature on witchcraft to distinguish between ‘levelling’ rumour, which seeks to attack the power of others, and ‘accumulative’ rumour, which seeks to increase the power of rumour-tellers. To exemplify this, I explore a rumour that circulated in 2012 and 2013 among practitioners of traditional medicine in West Cameroon, which claimed that the state would kill tradipractitioners working to cure HIV/AIDS. I first outline the likely sociopolitical roots of practitioners’ anxiety regarding their intellectual labour. I then argue that this narrative was simultaneously levelling and accumulative in a national context, yet became accumulative in the more international context of practitioner–anthropologist relations. Ultimately, both forms of empowerment were key to understanding the rumour's favourable posit... |
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