Making sense of AIDS
Subtitle: culture, sexuality, and power in Melanesia
By: edited by Leslie Butt and Richard Eves.
Contributors: Butt, Leslie, 1960-; Eves, Richard.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780824831936; 9780824832490
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: When there's no accessing basic health care : local politics and responses to HIV/AIDS at Lake Kopiago, Papua New Guinea / Nicole Haley; title: "It's mutual attraction" : transvestites and the risk of HIV transmission in urban Papua / Jack Morin; title: Fear and loathing in Papua New Guinea : sexual health in a nation under siege / Lawrence J. Hammar; title: Why are Kanak women more vulnerable than others to HIV? ethnographic and statistical insights from New Caledonia / Christine Salomon and Christine Hamelin; title: Buying betel and selling sex : contested boundaries, risk milieus, and discourses about HIV/AIDS in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea / Bettina Beer; title: Silence speaks volumes : elite responses to AIDS in highlands Papua / Leslie Butt; title: The trouble with trousers : gossip, kastom, and sexual culture in Vanuatu / Maggie Cummings; title: Love as sacrifice : the romantic underground and beliefs about HIV/AIDS in Manokwari, Papua / Sarah Hewat; title: Smoke from fire : desire and secrecy in Auki, Solomon Islands / Holly Buchanan-Aruwafu and Rose Maebiru; title: "You have to understand, some of us are glad AIDS has arrived" : Christianity and condoms among the Huli, Papua New Guinea / Holly Wardlow; title: Moral reform and miraculous cures : Christian healing and AIDS in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea / Richard Eves; title: SikAIDS : deconstructing the awareness campaign in rural West New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Naomi M. McPherson; title: Fitting condoms on culture : rethinking approaches to HIV prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea / Katherine Lepani.