The "failures of culture": Christianity, kinship, and moral discourses about orphans during Botswana's AIDS crisis

Africa Today

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-43

  Dahl, Bianca ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHILD CARE; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ORPHAN; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 70350336676     PISSN: 00019887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/aft.2009.56.1.22     Document Type: Article

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