Oceania

Current issues

Volume 77, Number 2

July 2007

NAOMI MCPHERSON
Myth, Primogeniture and long distance Trade-Friends in Northwest New Britain, Papua New Guinea

ERIC HIRSCH
Valleys of historicity and ways of power among the Fuguye

RYAN SCHRAM
Sit, cook, eat, full stop: religion and the rejection of ritual in Auhelawa (Papua New Guinea)

JEREMY MACCLANCY
Nakomaha: a counter-colonial life and its contexts. Anthropological approaches to biography

GREGORY FORTH
Can animals break taboos? Applications of 'taboo' among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia

GÖRAN AIJMER
On making fathers in Lesu: The historical anthropology of a New Ireland society

REVIEWS

Volume 77, Number 1

March 2007

HIV/AIDS in rural Papua New Guinea

ALISON DUNDON and CHARLES WILDE
Introduction: HIV and AIDS in rural Papua New Guinea

KATHERINE LEPANI
Sovasova and the problem of sameness: converging interpretive frameworks for making sense of HIV and AIDS in the Trobriand Islands

ALISON DUNDON
Warrior women, the Holy Spirit and HIV/AIDS in rural Papua New Guinea

VERENA KECK
Knowledge, morality and 'Kastom': 'SikAIDS' among young Yupno people, Finisterre Range, Papua New Guinea

CHARLES WILDE
'Turning sex into a game': Gogodala men's response to the AIDS epidemic and condom promotion in rural Papua New Guinea

LAWRENCE HAMMAR
Epilogue: Homegrown in PNG -rural responses to HIV and AIDS

General articles

EIRIK J. SAETHRE
Conflicting traditions, concurrent treatment: medical pluralism in Remote Aboriginal Australia

Local perspective

MICHAEL KWA'IOLOA and BEN BURT
'The Chief's country': a Malaitan view of the conflict in Solomon Islands