A Bogotana House of the Spirits: Venezuelan and Colombian HIV/AIDS Biosociality Beyond-the-Living.

Biosociality is often referenced regarding those living with HIV/AIDS, but scholarship takes for granted that these relationships exist between living beings. Based on long-term ethnography in refuge houses for Venezuelan migrants and Colombians living with HIV in Bogotá, Colombia, I argue that HIV/AIDS biosociality may also exist between the living and beyond-the-living espíritus who historically lived and died with HIV/AIDS. The discussion will show how consideration of biosociality beyond-the-living can act as an important analytical tool in understanding the experiences of migrants living with HIV in Latin America and how they come to interpret their situation and futures.