Holly Wardlow's Books

Wayward Women

Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society

By: Holly Wardlow

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Wayward Women

Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society

By: Holly Wardlow

Analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," this work explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex, and asks how these transactions might be an expression of resistance, or even revenge.

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296

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Univ of California Press

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ISBN 10

0520245601

ISBN 13

9780520245600

Fencing in AIDS

Gender, Vulnerability, and Care in Papua New Guinea

By: Holly Wardlow

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Fencing in AIDS

Gender, Vulnerability, and Care in Papua New Guinea

By: Holly Wardlow

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In this vitally important book, medical anthropologist Holly Wardlow takes readers through a ten-year history of the AIDS epidemic in Tari, Papua New Guinea, focusing on the political and economic factors that make women vulnerable to HIV and on their experiences with antiretroviral therapy. Alive with the women’s stories about being trafficked to gold mines, resisting polygynous marriages, and struggling to be perceived as morally upright, Fencing in AIDS demonstrates that being female shapes every aspect of the AIDS epidemic. Offering crucial insights into the anthropologies of mining, ethics, and gender, this is essential reading for scholars and professionals addressing the global AIDS crisis today.

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214

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University of California Press

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0520355512

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9780520355514

The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia

Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change

By: Holly Wardlow

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The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia

Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change

By: Holly Wardlow

Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relationship between cultural intensification and globalizing forces. They acknowledge the importance of Sahlins' ideas, while refining, extending, modifying and critiquing them in light of their own first hand knowledge of Pacific island societies. Also presenting one of Sahlins' less widely available original essays for reference, this book is an exciting contribution to serious anthropological engagement with Papua New Guinea.

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