Ethnographies of uncertainty in Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Cooper, Elizabeth, 1976-, Pratten, David
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:	Anthropology, change and development.
Subjects:	Africa > Social conditions > 1960- Uncertainty > Social aspects > Africa. Pragmatism > Social aspects > Africa. Forecasting > Social aspects > Africa. Social problems > Africa. Ethnology > Africa. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa : An Introduction / Elizabeth Cooper and David Pratten
PART I. SOCIAL CONTINGENCIES : BETWEEN SUSPICION AND THE SUBJUNCTIVE
2. Contingency : Interpersonal and Historical Dependencies in HIV Care / Susan Reynolds Whyte and Godfrey Etyang Siu
3. Charity and Chance : The Manufacture of Uncertainty and Mistrust Through Child Sponsorship in Kenya / Elizabeth Cooper
4. The Quest for Trust in the Face of Uncertainty : Managing Pregnancy Outcomes in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann
5. Food Security, Conjugal Conflict, and Uncertainty in "Bangladesh," Mombasa, Kenya / Adam Gilbertson
PART II. FUTURE VISIONS
6. Social Invisibility and Political Opacity : On Perceptiveness and Apprehension in Bissau / Henrik Vigh
7. Rhythms of Uncertainty and the Pleasures of Anticipation / Julie Soleil Archambault
8. Embracing Uncertainty : Young People on the Move in Addis Ababa's Inner City / Marco Di Nunzio
9. "We Wait for Miracles" : Ideas of Hope and Future Among Clandestine Burundian Refugees in Nairobi / Simon Turner.