Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia
edited by
Leslie Butt and Richard Eves
Introduction
Richard Eves and Leslie Butt
1. When There's No Accessing Basic Health Care: Local Politics and
Responses to HIV/AIDS at Lake Kopiago, Papua New Guinea
Nicole Haley
2. "It's Mutual Attraction": Transvestites and the Risk of
HIV
Transmission in Urban Papua
Jack Morin
3. Fear and Loathing in Papua New Guinea: Sexual Health in a Nation
under Siege
Lawrence J. Hammar
4. Why Are Kanak Women More Vulnerable than Others to HIV? Ethnographic
and Statistical Insights from New Caledonia
Christine Salomon and Christine Hamelin
5. Buying Betel and Selling Sex: Contested Boundaries, Risk Milieus,
and Discourses about HIV/AIDS in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea
Bettina Beer
6. Silence Speaks Volumes: Elite Responses to AIDS in Highlands Papua
Leslie Butt
7. The Trouble with Trousers: Gossip, Kastom, and Sexual Culture in
Vanuatu
Maggie Cummings
8. Love as Sacrifice: The Romantic Underground and Beliefs about
HIV/AIDS in Manokwari, Papua
Sarah Hewat
9. Smoke from Fire: Desire and Secrecy in Auki, Solomon Islands
Holly Buchanan-Aruwafu and Rose Maebiru
10. "You Have to Understand: Some of Us Are Glad AIDS Has Arrived":
Christianity and Condoms among the Huli, Papua New Guinea
Holly Wardlow
11. Moral Reform and Miraculous Cures: Christian Healing and AIDS in
New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Richard Eves
12. SikAIDS: Deconstructing the Awareness Campaign in Rural West New
Britain, Papua New Guinea
Naomi M. Mcpherson
13. Fitting Condoms on Culture: Rethinking Approaches to HIV Prevention
in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea
Katherine Lepani