AIDS and AIDS: anthropological analysis of opinions relative to the death of AIDS patients in a district of Bangui (June 1994)
Epelboin, A.; Gourna, S.
Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique 89(1): 48-56
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-9085 PMID: 8765959 Document Number: 382101
Anthropological analysis and presentation of a corpus of information gathered during an ethnological survey on aids led in June 1994 in the district Jean XXIII, Bangui. The personality of the investigator-informator ( = Ego = the second author), and thus his subjectivity, are parameters deliberately considered for the presentation and analysis of the obtained data. The inquiry consists in making a list and gathering explanations of deceases ascribed to aids in this district, among a population made up by a representative part of the investigator's "social body": i.e. his nuclear family, members of his extended paternal, maternal and in-law families, past and present regular extra-matrimonial sexual partners, networks of former and present neighbours, friends and colleagues; that is to say a whole formal and informal community with changing outlines, which acts a fundamental role when misfortune, bad luck and disease appear.