Description |
xv, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents |
When there's no accessing basic health care : local politics and responses to HIV/AIDS at Lake Kopiago, Papua New Guinea / Nicole Haley -- "It's mutual attraction" : transvestites and the risk of HIV transmission in urban Papua / Jack Morin -- Fear and loathing in Papua New Guinea : sexual health in a nation under siege / Lawrence J. Hammar -- Why are Kanak women more vulnerable than others to HIV? ethnographic and statistical insights from New Caledonia / Christine Salomon and Christine Hamelin -- Buying betel and selling sex : contested boundaries, risk milieus, and discourses about HIV/AIDS in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea / Bettina Beer -- Silence speaks volumes : elite responses to AIDS in highlands Papua / Leslie Butt -- |
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The trouble with trousers : gossip, kastom, and sexual culture in Vanuatu / Maggie Cummings -- Love as sacrifice : the romantic underground and beliefs about HIV/AIDS in Manokwari, Papua / Sarah Hewat -- Smoke from fire : desire and secrecy in Auki, Solomon Islands / Holly Buchanan-Aruwafu and Rose Maebiru -- "You have to understand, some of us are glad AIDS has arrived" : Christianity and condoms among the Huli, Papua New Guinea / Holly Wardlow -- Moral reform and miraculous cures : Christian healing and AIDS in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea / Richard Eves -- SikAIDS : deconstructing the awareness campaign in rural West New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Naomi M. McPherson -- Fitting condoms on culture : rethinking approaches to HIV prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea / Katherine Lepani |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-305) and index |
Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- Melanesia.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Melanesia.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects.
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HIV Infections -- epidemiology.
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HIV Infections -- prevention & control.
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Health Policy.
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Public Opinion.
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Religion and Medicine.
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Sexual Behavior.
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SUBJECT |
Melanesia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008542 |
Author |
Butt, Leslie, 1960-
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Eves, Richard.
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LC no. |
2007048540 |
ISBN |
9780824831936 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0824831934 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780824832490 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0824832493 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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