In the article the story is told of an African family in the Gwembe Valley in South Zambia the main persons of which being five brothers. Although their life stories show great structural similarities, all the brothers try to set up their own spheres of power by controlling religious cults,...

Although the AIDS epidemic has seroius consequences for all societal domains in sub-Saharan Africa, the social sciences, including social anthropology, have not paid much attention to the topic. So far, little research has been done on the indigenous perspectives of local populations and their...

AIDS work in Africa is to a great extent based on models which originated in North America or Europe and may be, for this reason, culturally inappropriate for the international setting. The global dynamics of AIDS work are explored in the paper with regard to a neglected topic of research: the...

An interdisciplinary research group on AIDS in Africa has recently been established in Germany with the aim of - in collaboration with developmental organisations - building a more effective basis for the planning and implementation of those AIDS programs which have, thus far, not succeeded in...