Making Sense of Aids Culture Sexuality and Power in Melanesia 1st Edition by Leslie Butt, Richard Eves ISBN 082486347X 9780824863470

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ISBN 10: 082486347X

ISBN 13: 9780824863470 

Author: Leslie Butt, Richard Eves

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 transmission. This collection, the first book on HIV and AIDS in the Pacific region, gathers together stunning and original accounts of the often surprising ways that people make sense of the AIDS epidemic in various parts of Melanesia. The volume addresses substantive issues concerning AIDS and contemporary sexualities, relations of power, and moralities—themes that provide a powerful backdrop for twenty-first century understandings of the tensions between sexuality, religion, and politics in many parts of the world. 

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. Local Politics and Responses to HIV/AIDS at Lake Kopiago, Papua New Guinea

3. Transvestites and the Risk of HIV Transmission in Urban Papua

4. Sexual Health in a Nation under Siege

5. Why Are Kanak Women More Vulnerable than Others to HIV? Ethnographic and Statistical Insights from New Caledonia

6. Contested Boundaries: Risk Milieus and Discourses about HIV/AIDS in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea

7. Elite Responses to AIDS in Highlands Papua

8. Gossip, Kastom, and Sexual Culture in Vanuatu

9. The Romantic Underground and Beliefs about HIV/AIDS in Manokwari, Papua

10. Desire and Secrecy in Auki, Solomon Islands

11. Some of Us Are Glad AIDS Has Arrived: Christianity and Condoms among the Huli, Papua New Guinea

12. Christian Healing and AIDS in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

13. Deconstructing the Awareness Campaign in Rural West New Britain, Papua New Guinea

14. Rethinking Approaches to HIV Prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea

15. Notes

16. Bibliography

17. Contributors

18. Index

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