João Biehl’s (“zh’WOW beel’s”) Will to Live is an ethnographic study of people with this condition being helped by a nonprofit called Caasah (“KAH-zuh”) in a former abandoned hospital. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this condition. Susan Sontag analyzed comparisons of this condition to plagues and military actions in a sequel to Illness as Metaphor.
ANSWER: AIDS [or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; accept HIV infection or human immunodeficiency virus infection; accept AIDS and Its Metaphors; prompt on sexually transmitted diseases or sexually transmitted infections or STDs or STIs]
[10h] This anthropologist built on her work in Death Without Weeping to analyze who has “sexual citizenship” in the essay “AIDS and the Social Body.” This critic of selling organs also wrote Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics.
ANSWER: Nancy Scheper-Hughes [or Nancy Scheper-Hughes]
[10e] Both Biehl and Scheper-Hughes’s work on the anthropology of AIDS is primarily in this country, where many AIDS programs concentrate on its favela informal settlements.
ANSWER: Brazil [or Brasil; or Federative Republic of Brazil; or República Federativa do Brasil]
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