169 REVIEW ESSAYS LOVE IN THE TIME OF AIDS Adam Ashforth University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan ashforth@umich.edu Mark Hunter. Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. xv + 303 pp. Acknowl- edgments. Notes on Racial Terms. Acronyms. Photographs. Maps. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $70.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper. Mark Hunter’s Love in the Time of AIDS is one of the most important books on AIDS in Africa that has been published so far. Based on intensive and long-term ethnographic research in and around the township of Mandeni, KwaZulu-Natal, the book shows how intimate relations of love, sex, and (infrequently, these days) marriage have been shaped by the history and political economy of the township, situated as it is in the larger contexts of South Africa and the world, and how these relations have shaped, and are shaped by, the HIV/AIDS epidemic which has hit this part of the world so hard. It is a depressing story. Mandeni is one of those places dotted across the map of South Africa that confounds an easy distinction between urban and rural. Straddling land that was once part of the “homeland” of KwaZulu, as well as sugarcane farms that were once in Natal, the new Municipality of Mandeni in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal incorporates the geographical and social scars of colonial conquest and apartheid. In 1954 SAPPI (South African Paper and Pulp Industries) built a paper mill on the banks of the Tugela River. Two settlements were built to house mill workers: one for whites, named Mandini (a misspelling of Mandeni, the area’s old Zulu name), and one for blacks, named Sundumbili, which comprised a number of standard apart- heid-era four-room brick township houses constructed on a grid pattern. This older established “formal” township was built for, and around, nuclear families, typically headed by a man employed in the nearby SAPPI mill. In the 1970s and 1980s an “industrial park” named Isithebe was estab- lished in the area, stimulated by subsidies designed to encourage industries