Making sense of AIDS : culture, sexuality, and power in Melanesia / edited by Leslie Butt and Richard Eves
- Bib ID:
- 4272740
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- [Honolulu] : University of Hawaii Press, c2008
- xv, 320 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780824831936
- 0824831934
- 9780824832490
- 0824832493
- Full contents:
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- When there's no accessing basic health care : local politics and 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
- 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.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- AIDS (Disease) -- Melanesia
- AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Melanesia
- AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects
- HIV Infections -- epidemiology -- Melanesia
- HIV Infections -- prevention & control -- Melanesia
- Health Policy -- Melanesia
- Public Opinion -- Melanesia
- Religion and Medicine -- Melanesia
- Sexual Behavior -- Melanesia
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