Upton Rebecca L, Dolan Edward Myers
DePauw University, Botswana.
Afr J Reprod Health. 2011 Mar;15(1):95-102.
This paper examines the experience and interpretations of infertility and sterility in northern Botswana. Specifically it highlights the role of stigma and impression management among Tswana men and women through their narratives and discourse about childbearing and personhood in an era of HIV/AIDS. The paper demonstrates that in a country with one of the highest HIV/AIDS infection rates in the world, risky sexual practices are weighed against cultural norms that suggest being a full person and productive adult is to be a reproductive man or woman. Through longitudinal qualitative research the narratives and life histories of several individuals offer ethnographic evidence on the power of stigma. The research finds that even with ubiquitous HIV/AIDS education and prevention programmes throughout Botswana, Tswana engage in various kinds of risk taking behaviours as means through which impressions and identities as full persons of value may be managed successfully.
本文考察了博茨瓦纳北部地区人们对不孕不育的经历与解读。具体而言，通过茨瓦纳男性和女性在艾滋病毒/艾滋病时代关于生育和人格的叙述及话语，突出了污名化和印象管理所起的作用。本文表明，在一个全球艾滋病毒/艾滋病感染率最高的国家之一，危险的性行为与文化规范相互权衡，这些文化规范表明，成为一个完整的人以及有生产力的成年人意味着是一个有生育能力的男性或女性。通过纵向定性研究，几个人的叙述和生活史提供了关于污名化力量的民族志证据。研究发现，尽管博茨瓦纳各地都有普遍存在的艾滋病毒/艾滋病教育和预防项目，但茨瓦纳人仍会采取各种冒险行为，以此作为成功管理作为有价值的完整之人的印象和身份的手段。
