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vii Contents acknowledgments ix Misfortunes without end: An Introduction to AIDS in Zimbabwe 1 Part i the State of health and the health of the State: A Social Demography of AIDS in Zimbabwe 1 Maladies of Modernity: Economic Structural Adjustment, HIV/AIDS, and the State of Health 25 2 Conspiracy theories: The So-Called AIDS Virus 51 Part ii history and Modernity: The Historical Constitution of N’anga as Dangerous Subjects 3 Godly Medicine, Pagan Superstition, and the Colonial State 77 4 n’anga and the Workings of Vernacular Modernity 102 viii Part iii Managing Modernity: N’anga Responses to HIV/AIDS 5 translating Policy into action: ZINATHA and HIV/AIDS Education 131 6 n’anga theories of infectious Diseases 149 7 Of Markets and Medicine: The Changing Significance of Zimbabwean Muti in the Age of Intensified Globalization 169 Conclusion: Vernacular Modernity, Explanatory Models, and HIV/AIDS 185 notes 197 references 203 index 219 ...

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