{"product_id":"covid-and-custom-in-rural-leslie-bank-9780197659618","title":"Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa: Culture, Healthcare and the State","description":"This book explores the impact of Covid-19, and the associated state lockdown, on rural lives in a former homeland in South Africa. The 2020 Disaster Management Act saw the state sweep through rural areas, targeting funerals and other customary practices as potential \"super-spreader\" events. This unprecedented clampdown produced widespread disruption, fear and anxiety. The authors build on path-breaking work concerning local responses to West Africa's Ebola epidemic, and examine the HIV\/AIDS pandemic, to understand the impact of the Covid crisis on these communities, and on rural Africa more broadly. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo shed light on the role of custom and ritual in rural social change during the pandemic, \u003cem\u003eCovid and Custom in Rural South Africa\u003c\/em\u003e applies long-term historical and ethnographic research; theories of people's science, local knowledge and the human economy; and fieldwork conducted in ten rural South African communities during lockdown. The volume highlights differences between developments in Southern Africa and elsewhere on the continent, while exploring how the former apartheid homelands-commonly, yet problematically, represented as former \"labor reserves\"-have since been reconstituted as new home-spaces. In short, it explains why rural people have been so angered by the state's assault on their cultural practices and institutions in the time of Covid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leslie Bank, Nelly Sharpley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197659616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197659618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.53h x 5.60w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2023","brand":"Leslie Bank","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44076208357631,"sku":"9780197659618","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4604d8f7-2ce5-409c-8b9c-70fe4523f3a6.jpg?v=1685463764","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/covid-and-custom-in-rural-leslie-bank-9780197659618","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}