The Work of Repair is an ethnographic examination of the intimate relationships between laborers in the timber plantations of postapartheid South Africa, in the wake of the HIV crisis and the contentious politics of nutrition. It explores how capacity is augmented as the wounds of history are embodied and modulated.
The Work of Repair is an ethnographic examination of the intimate relationships between laborers in the timber plantations of postapartheid South Africa, in the wake of the HIV crisis and the contentious politics of nutrition. It explores how capacity is augmented as the wounds of history are embodied and modulated.
Thomas Cousins is Clarendon-Lienhardt Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of Africa at the University of Oxford, and Fellow, St Hugh's College.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Repair and the Question of Capacity 1 1 Labor Power and Amandla 37 2 The Plantation and the Making of a Labor Regime 58 3 The Game of Marriage 88 4 Repair and the Substance of Others 115 5 In the Vicinity of the Social 144 Conclusion: The Work of Repair 181 Acknowledgments 197 Notes 201 Bibliography 277 Index 319
Introduction: Repair and the Question of Capacity 1 1 Labor Power and Amandla 37 2 The Plantation and the Making of a Labor Regime 58 3 The Game of Marriage 88 4 Repair and the Substance of Others 115 5 In the Vicinity of the Social 144 Conclusion: The Work of Repair 181 Acknowledgments 197 Notes 201 Bibliography 277 Index 319
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