01274nas a2200157   4500000000100000008004100001653001400042653001700056653001500073653001200088100001200100245009900112300001200211490000700223520088600230       2014                            d10aSwaziland10aSouth Africa10aPilgrimage10aleprosy1 aMcCoy B00aLeprosy, piety and identity: The Mbuluzi leprosy hospital as informal pilgrimage site, 1948-82  a54–690 v203 a<p>This paper explores the idea of Swaziland's Mbuluzi Leprosy Hospital as a kind of informal pilgrimage site for missionaries of the Church of the Nazarene and other Western Christians while investigating the ways in which this status shaped the social life of the hospital community. And because the course of leprosy treatment during the middle years of the twentieth century typically required many months and often years to run its course, the paper particularly seeks to understand how this peculiar position may have impacted the identity of the patients whose lives were consequently put on display and what implications this had on their world-views and expectations in life after the hospital closed in 1982, arguing that the concept of moral bonds of dependence, derived from recent work by James Ferguson, provides the best model for understanding these dynamics.</p>