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"With AIDS I am happier than I have ever been before".
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Australian Journal of Anthropology . Apr2019, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p53-67. 15p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- In her 2016 article Sherry Ortner discusses what she calls the rise of 'dark anthropology': that is, ethnographic work that analyses situations of domination, dispossession, and violence. She, like Joel Robbins (), posits as a counterpoint the emergence of 'anthropologies of the good,' which emphasise care and ethics. In this paper I put these two anthropological projects into generative tension through an analysis of HIV‐positive women's lives in Papua New Guinea. In the first part of the paper I demonstrate the ways in which resource extraction has created vulnerabilities to HIV—in part through the coerced marriages of women to powerful landowners. In the second, I discuss ways in which the antiretroviral era has made possible unexpected forms of kindness towards HIV‐positive women. I end the paper with a discussion of what HIV‐positive women mean when they claim that they are happier now than in their pre‐diagnosis lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *AIDS
*ETHNOLOGY
*ANTHROPOLOGY
*HIV-positive women
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10358811
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Australian Journal of Anthropology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 135666794
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12304