Islands of Love, Islands of Risk Culture and HIV in the Trobriands

Name: Islands of Love, Islands of Risk Culture and HIV in the Trobriands
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ISBN: 9780826518750

ISBN-10: 0826518753

ISBN-13: 9780826518750

Edition: 2012

Authors: Katherine Lepani

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The Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea have been depicted as a place of sexual freedom ever since these small atolls in the southwest Pacific were made famous by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski in the early twentieth century. Today in the era of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, how do Trobrianders respond to public health interventions that link their cultural practices to the risk of HIV? How do they weigh HIV prevention messages of abstinence, fidelity, and condom use against traditional sexual practices that strengthen interclan relationships in a gift economy?Written by an anthropologist who has direct ties to the Trobriands through marriage and who has been involved in Papua New Guinea's…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date: 12/31/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Katherine Lepani is Senior Research Associate in the School of Culture, History, and Language at the Australian National University.



Acknowledgments


Author's Notes


Prologue



Models of Meaning and Ways of Knowing



"In the Process of Knowing"



Connections to Place



"Because We Can!": Gendered Agency and Social Reproduction



Youth Sexuality: Making Desires Known



Converging Meanings



Fitting Condoms on Culture


Epilogue


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index