The Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV

Index

287 Index Page numbers in bold indicate illustrations. abandonment, 11 ABC approach (abstinence, be faithful, condom use), 168, 170, 211 Abia State, Nigeria, 89 abnegada, 56 abortion, 94, 260n26 abstinence, and HIV risk, 168, 170, 174 Adams, Vincanne, 8 Adanna (no surname given), x adultery definitions of, 161, 177 laws, 21, 169, 195 makes marriage “tolerable,” 1 adulthood, defined as marriage and parenthood, 18, 100, 175 advertising, 259n6 See also consumerism aerobics classes, 128 age. See generational differences agency, and HIV risk, 106–7 aggression. See violence Agilo, Pauline, ix Ahearn, Laura, 37 ahistorical assumptions, of comparative anthropology, 29–30 AIDS awareness campaigns, 86, 133, 170 folklore about, 84 influences on, 84–85 and moral discourse, 95, 169–70 orphans, 174, 192 and sexual negotiations, 258n6 women initially invisible regarding, 6, 253n2 See also HIV al Qaeda, use of power, 36 Alam, Sonia, viii Alarie, Tom, vii alcohol and extramarital sex, 45, 92, 150, 168, 215 and homosociality, 61, 119, 127, 137, 149, 155 at sex-for-sale sites, 65, 213 Allman, Jean, 176 allopathic medicine, 173 Alps, studies of, 32 Amazonia, studies of, 33–34 American Anthropological Association, xiv American Anthropologist, 36 American Conservative Jews, 215 anal sex, as “modern,” 81 analytical categories, in sociocultural anthropology, 26, 28 Angobe, Ken, ix, 261n2 Anh Anh, xii Anh Binh, 108, 119, 127, 258n1 Anh Tran, 120 anonymity, and opportunity structures, 129, 188 anthropological models, 25–26 anthropology of gender, 9 of love and sexuality, 5 of public health, and gender theory, 5–8 “subaltern” comparative messages, 255n3 anti-prostitution pledge, 211, 264n7 antiretroviral therapy (Africa), 37 anxiety buying sex as relief from, 156 about class, 96 about community, 95 about consumerism, 150 about gender equality, 263n12 about HIV risk, 175 about modern marriage expectations, 101–5, 195 Appadurai, Arjun, 27, 30, 34, 35 appearance, importance of. See masculinity: performance of; reputation arranged marriages, 122 artistic identity, 119 Atlanta, GA, 21, 213 Atotonilco, Mexico, 80 Australia administers Tari, 150 male drinking and fighting, 160 automobiles. See cars autonomy and gendered relations, 45 women’s strategies for, 176 Aztec, pre-contact, 32 288 The Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV bachelor cults, 144 Baganda (ethnic group), 263n14 Bantu. See Basoga barbershops, 116 bars and extramarital sex, xi, 215 male-dominated sites, xi, 17, 91, 139, 149 and political economy, 209 sites of masculine display, 16, 96 Barth, Fredrik, 28 Basangwa, Isaac, xii Basoga (ethnic group), 171, 175, 262n4 bath/rest-house public health interventions at, 216 as spaces for commercial sex, 108, 109 Batwaula, Robert, xii beauty contests/parlors, 128 Bedouin, ethnography of, 27 beer gardens, as sex sites, 215 Beffa, Elaine, vii Benedict, Ruth, 29 Berger, Adam, xii Berger, Alana, xi, xii Berger, Eli, xi, xii Berliner, Paul, 52 Bernard, Jean Maxius, 12 bia hoi/bia om, 215, 259n8 billiard halls, 61, 62 blame. See women: blamed for husband’s extramarital sex Blau, Peter, 199 Bluckman, Max, 27 Boas, Franz, 25 Born in Africa (film), 49 Bourdieu, P., 3 Brazil, on U.S. anti-prostitution pledge, 264n7 bridewealth and divorce, 177 function of, 161, 175, 263n10 makes wife possession, 160–61 reduces polygyny, 261n6 See also polygamy/polygyny; wealth Brogdon, Brittany, viii brothels absent in Tari, 147 appeal of to migrants, 213 “courtship houses” as, 158 male-dominated social spaces, 17, 91 See also sex industry; sex workers Bryant, Rebecca, 36 Buddhism, in Vietnam, 40 bus stations, and sex services, 116 Bush, George W., 174 Bushmen (South African), 27 Cady, John, vii cafés om, xi, 116 cafés vuon, 117–18 cafés, and commercialized leisure, 115 Caldwell, J. C., 254n7 cantinas, 61, 213, 215 capitalism, HIV risk as hidden cost, 33, 210, 214–15 Caribbean, economies of, 32 Carrillo, Héctor, 189 cars and sexual behavior, 113 as status object, 98, 118, 173 See also motorbikes cash economy. See economy caste hierarchy (India), 27 Catholic Church, 56, 257n15, 257n16 See also Christianity cell phones, 98, 114 and opportunity structures, 113, 114, 129–30, 203, 258n4 as status objects, 87, 98, 173 wives’ use of, 258n4 charismatic churches. See Pentecostal movement Chidibere (no surname given), x children as chaperons, 61 constraint on women’s mobility, 158, 188 importance of, 102, 106 and women’s status, 121, 158 See also fatherhood; motherhood Chimezie (no surname given), x choices, and sexual projects, 76–83 Christian (no surname given), x Christian Family Movement, 257n16 Christianity appeal to migrants, 213 and companionate marriage, 142, 144, 160, 167, 168, 181 discourages dawe anda, 160 and management of...