Julie Livingston, “Maintaining Local Dependencies”Julie Livingston, “Maintaining Local Dependencies”1. What are the official aims of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) programs in Botswana (pp.170, 180-1)? How might you compare them to other aims of healing that we have discussed?2. What are the ideal relationships between elderly mothers and grown daughters in Botswana? Why are these relationships coming under strain (pp.174-5)?3. What are the characteristics of a “gradual and benign aging process” for women in Botswana (p.178)? Why is such a process becoming harder to count on?4. Why was David’s great-grandmother Neo receptive to CBR work while his grandmother Florence was not (pp.165-6, 176-7)?5. Why might regaining bodily functions lost through strokes or other debilitating impairments not be an important goal for many women (pp.179-180)?6. Why might grandmothers decide to call a grandchild’s debility either “cerebral palsy” or alternatively “mopakwane” (pp.182-3)?7. Recall how Robert Murphy experienced a diminished sense of personhood when he became paralyzed, because he could no longer occupy a “sick role” in which he could be expected to recover. On the basis of Livingston’s essay, would you expect to find that Batswana who become disabled suffer a diminishment of personhood in the same ways and for the same
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