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

by Butt, Leslie

• ISBN13: 9780824832490
• ISBN10: 0824832493
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

In Melanesia, rates of HIV infection are among the highest in the Pacific and increasing rapidly. There is a great need for social research on HIV/AIDS in the region to provide better insights into the sensitive issues surrounding HIV transmission. This collection, the first book on HIV and AIDS in the Pacific, gathers together stunning and original accounts of the often surprising ways that people make sense of the AIDS epidemic in various parts of Melanesia.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Maps	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
When There's No Accessing Basic Health Care: Local Politics and Responses to HIV/AIDS at Lake Kopiago, Papua New Guinea	p. 24
"It's Mutual Attraction": Transvestites and the Risk of HIV Transmission in Urban Papua	p. 41
Fear and Loathing in Papua New Guinea: Sexual Health in a Nation under Siege	p. 60
Why Are Kanak Women More Vulnerable than Others to HIV? Ethnographic and Statistical Insights from New Caledonia	p. 80
Buying Betel and Selling Sex: Contested Boundaries, Risk Milieus, and Discourses about HIV/AIDS in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea	p. 97
Silence Speaks Volumes: Elite Responses to AIDS in Highlands Papua	p. 116
The Trouble with Trousers: Gossip, Kastom, and Sexual Culture in Vanuatu	p. 133
Love as Sacrifice: The Romantic Underground and Beliefs about HIV/AIDS in Manokwari, Papua	p. 150
Smoke from Fire: Desire and Secrecy in Auki, Solomon Islands	p. 168
"You Have to Understand: Some of Us Are Glad AIDS Has Arrived": Christianity and Condoms among the Huli, Papua New Guinea	p. 187
Moral Reform and Miraculous Cures: Christian Healing and AIDS in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	p. 206
SikAIDS: Deconstructing the Awareness Campaign in Rural West New Britain, Papua New Guinea	p. 224
Fitting Condoms on Culture: Rethinking Approaches to HIV Prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea	p. 246
Notes	p. 267
Bibliography	p. 279
Contributors	p. 307
Index	p. 309
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