Making Sense of AIDS : : Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia /

Making Sense of AIDS : : Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia / / ed. by Richard Eves, Leslie Butt.

In Melanesia, rates of HIV infection are among the highest in the Pacific and increasing rapidly, with grave humanitarian, development, and political implications. There is a great need for social research on HIV/AIDS in the region to provide better insights into the sensitive issues surrounding HIV...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Beer, Bettina,
Buchanan-Aruwafu, Holly,
Butt, Leslie,
Cummings, Maggie,
Eves, Richard,
Haley, Nicole,
Hamelin, Christine,
Hammar, Lawrence J.,
Hewat, Sarah,
Lepani, Katherine,
Maebiru, Rose,
McPherson, Naomi M.,
Morin, Jack,
Salomon, Christine,
Wardlow, Holly,
HerausgeberIn:
Butt, Leslie,
Eves, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 11 illus., 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • 1. When There's No Accessing Basic Health Care Local Politics and Responses to HIV/AIDS at Lake Kopiago, Papua New Guinea
  • 2. "It's Mutual Attraction" Transvestites and the Risk of HIV Transmission in Urban Papua
  • 3. Fear and Loathing in Papua New Guinea Sexual Health in a Nation under Siege
  • 4. Why Are Kanak Women More Vulnerable than Others to HIV? Ethnographic and Statistical Insights from New Caledonia
  • 5. Buying Betel and Selling Sex Contested Boundaries, Risk Milieus, and Discourses about HIV/AIDS in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea
  • 6. Silence Speaks Volumes Elite Responses to AIDS in Highlands Papua
  • 7. The Trouble with Trousers Gossip, Kastom, and Sexual Culture in Vanuatu
  • 8. Love as Sacrifice The Romantic Underground and Beliefs about HIV/AIDS in Manokwari, Papua
  • 9. Smoke from Fire Desire and Secrecy in Auki, Solomon Islands
  • 10. "You Have to Understand: Some of Us Are Glad AIDS Has Arrived" Christianity and Condoms among the Huli, Papua New Guinea
  • 11. Moral Reform and Miraculous Cures Christian Healing and AIDS in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
  • 12. SikAIDS Deconstructing the Awareness Campaign in Rural West New Britain, Papua New Guinea
  • 13. Fitting Condoms on Culture Rethinking Approaches to HIV Prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • About the Editors

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