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Islands of love, islands of risk : culture and HIV in the Trobriands / Katherine Lepani.

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Islands of love, islands of risk : culture and HIV in the Trobriands / Katherine Lepani.

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv5PMP63od

Islands of love, islands of risk : culture and HIV in the Trobriands / Katherine Lepani.

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Full title

Islands of love, islands of risk : culture and HIV in the Trobriands / Katherine Lepani.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2012]

Date

[2012]

Call Numbers

GQ 2019/0276

Record Identifier

74Vv5PMP63od

MMS ID

991017606089702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xiii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Models of Meaning and Ways of Knowing -- 2."In the Process of Knowing" -- 3.Connections to Place -- 4."Because We Can!": Gendered Agency and Social Reproduction -- 5.Youth Sexuality: Making Desires Known -- 6.Converging Meanings -- 7.Fitting Condoms on Culture.

Publication information

Publisher

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2012]

Place of Publication

Tennessee

Date Published

[2012]

Subjects

Subject Keywords

  • HEALTH & FITNESS / Sexuality
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies

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Scope and Contents

Summary

"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 thei...

Alternative Titles

Full title

Islands of love, islands of risk : culture and HIV in the Trobriands / Katherine Lepani.

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Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-232) and index.

Contextual Information

Related resource (online)

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

GQ 2019/0276

Record Identifier

74Vv5PMP63od

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv5PMP63od

Other Identifiers

ISBN

9780826518750 (paperback)

9780826518743 (cloth : alk. paper)

DDC

362.19697920099541

MMS ID

991017606089702626

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