The widow in blue: Blood and the morality of remembering in Botswana's time of AIDS

Africa

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 46-62

  Klaits, Frederick ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; KINSHIP; MORALITY; WOMENS STATUS;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 22244492010     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/afr.2005.75.1.46     Document Type: Article

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