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

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233 Index Page numbers in bold indicate illustrations. ABC prevention message (abstinence, be faithful, condom use), 192n4; and marital fidelity, 90; moral hierarchy, 18, 156, 168; national campaign in Papua New Guinea, 26–27; responses to, in Trobriands, 158, 162, 166 abortion, 95–96, 99, 200n40, 201n44 Abraham, Haydon, 173, 205n3 abstinence, 73–74; as cultural value, 73, 163; in HIV prevention messages, 10, 18, 28, 99– 100, 166, 192n4; pregnancy and lactation, during, 37, 90–92, 128–29, 166, 181 adolescence: and HIV vulnerability (Papua New Guinea), 22; sexuality, 101, 133–34; as social category, 132; subfecundity, 203n34. See also kubukwabuya (unmarried youth) adoption: and clan membership, 46; by maternal kin, 47, 125, 128; social relations, 197n17; and weaning, 74, 119, 129 adultery. See marriage: infidelity adulthood, 69, 71, 74, 121 Africa, 20, 24–25, 149, 192n8 agency: behavior change, 16–17, 21, 40, 99, 158; of children and young people, 47, 197n8; collective, 104, 118; gendered, 68, 85–86, 88–90; and HIV prevention, 166, 168–69, 183, 199n31, 200n34; individual, 20–21; and labor, 81, 119–20; and social relations, 36, 40, 53, 68, 70, 179. See also autonomy; nanola (mind); sexual freedom; sexual and reproductive agency AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), v, 15; blaming women for, 88–89; denial of, 159–160; as development issue in Papua New Guinea, 27, 29, 85; global pandemic, v, 15, 87, 89, 177, 196n22, 200n35; global response, 18, 20, 26, 85, 171, 180–81; as “killer disease,” 17, 28, 37, 146; perceptions of, 39, 143; potential impact in Trobriands, 11, 83, 177, 179; and primary health-care services, 35, 180; representations of, 11, 160, 182–83, 193n19. See also HIV Alotau, 4, 27; air travel to, 6; cargo vessels from, 8; as destination for store goods, 3, 81, 154; and HIV training, 160; hospital, 97, 142, 174–75; Trobrianders living in, 144 ancestors: baloma (spirits), 4, 37, 66, 95, 132, 151; and matrilineal identity, 178, 195n5, 202n8; and power, 95, 178, 193n13; and wisdom, 1–2, 9, 95. See also Wosituma anthropology: as academic field, 42; comparative method, 191n13; concepts of culture and health, 20, 33, 192n8, 194n11; conception theory, 66, 196n3; and cultural difference, 191n12, 192n9; and development, 199n28; and exchange theory, 118, 195n11; and self and other, 44, 134; and sexuality, 12, 20, 66, 194n10; and Trobriand Islands, 11, 13–14, 191n11. See also ethnographic research; feminist theory antiretroviral therapy (ART): access to, 146, 180, 192n5, 193n16, 206n26; provision of, 18, 23, 35, 148, 172, 174 Ashkenazi, Michael, 196n20 Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, 201n48 Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), 193nn16–17 autonomy: individuated, 16, 40, 86, 88; marriage partner, in choice of, 122, 124, 128; personal, 83, 118, 133, 203n19; sexual, 24, 90–91, 102, 105; and social relations, 118–19. See also agency; kubukwabuya (unmarried youth); sexual freedom; nanola (mind) awareness, HIV and AIDS, 32–35; activities, Trobriand villages reached by, 59, 183, 194n6; and community leaders, 55, 169; individualist models of prevention, 16–17, 21, 180; men, not reaching, 89–90, 94, 179; national media campaign (Papua New Guinea), 26–29, 32; pedagogy of, 39; posters, 19, 26–27, 29, 32, 141, 156–57, 159, 162–63, 177, 204n1; and prevention, 234 Islands of Love, Islands of Risk awareness, HIV and AIDS (continued) ethnographic research gap between, 10; standardized approaches, 17–18, 37; and this study, as part of, 40, 58, 108 banana fiber skirts. See doba (banana leaf bundles and skirts) Bateson, Mary Catherine, 53 Battaglia, Debbora, 121 behavior-change models, 16–17, 20, 40 Bellamy, Raynor, 140, 197n3, 202n5, 204n7, 204n9 betel nut: as buwala (gifts for sexual partners), 71, 113–114, 116; chewing, 6, 9, 45, 47, 50, 52, 60, 65, 76, 87, 97; exchange, 75, 81, 122; kwaiwaga (love magic), use in, 108–09; prohibition on stealing, 139; in sagali (mortuary exchange feast) distributions, 78; selling of, 2, 5–6; uses of, 2–3, 9, 32, 104, 122, 153 biological synergism, 25, 37, 155 biomedicine: concept of culture, 19; HIV drug therapies, 180; HIV pathology, 15; immunological research, 99; models of disease, 16–17, 135–36, 140; notions of risk, 10, 157–58, 205n4; pedagogical authority of, 61; and representations of HIV, 27, 36, 87, 179; and surveillance technologies, 181 birth rates, decline during early colonial period, 98–99 breast milk, 67, 92 breastfeeding, 74, 90–93, 128–29, 131, 154 bride-price, 24, 74, 117 Bridie, David, 196n1 Buchanan-Aruwafu, Holly, 197n6 bukumatula (bachelor house), 122–25, 156, 157...