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Everything You Thought You Knew about Orphans in Africa Is Probably Wrong

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Policy makers, development workers, orphanage voluntourists, missionaries, prospective adoptive parents: ignore this book at your peril.   “AIDS orphans” are commonly imagined as the most vulnerable of the world’s most vulnerable populations.  In a provocative new study, anthropologist Kristen Cheney  challenges just about everything we thought we knew about the children

Africa, Africanist scholarship, Anthropology, Author interviews, Childhood, Community, Cultural Anthropology, Current Issues, East Africa, Education, Ethnography, HIV/AIDS, Intercultural communication, Labeling theory, Medical anthropology, Orphanages, Orphans, Politics of representation, Research as advocacy, Research methods, Schooling, Social activism, Social justice, Stigma, Voluntourism Read more