Dissertation Research: Disease, Social Change, and Gender Among the Huli of Papua New Guinea

这个项目涉及一位来自埃默里大学的人类学学生的论文研究。该学生将学习巴布亚新几内亚部落社会中性传播疾病（STDs）的社会文化影响。该项目将重点关注该社会中的女性如何利用这一疾病类别，通过指责男性传播疾病来获得道德社会地位。通过对两个女性样本的深度访谈，该项目将分析女性的选择、修辞和社会地位，其中50名报告了性病，50名没有报告性病。此外，该项目还将分析有关性病流行的诊所记录数据。这项研究很重要，因为它将为性传播疾病对部落人口的影响提供一个有价值的案例研究。通过研究疾病如何影响妇女生活的各种变化，以及妇女如何利用性传播疾病的存在来争取更多的自主权和社会地位，该项目将促进我们对传统社会中的两性关系和对性传播疾病的文化解释的理解。提高我们对人们如何理解性传播疾病含义的认识，是设计控制这些疾病的干预措施的必要步骤。

9412381 Knauft / Wardlow This project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from Emory University. The student will study the socio-cultural repercussions of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in a tribal society of Papua New Guinea. The project will focus on how women in this society use this disease category to gain moral social status, by accusing men of spreading the disease. Using in-depth interviews with two samples of women, 50 who reported STD and 50 women who have not, the project will analyze women's choices, rhetoric, and social status. In addition the project will analyze data from records of clinics on the prevalence of STDs. This research is important because it will provide a valuable case study of the impact of STDs on a tribal population. By studying the variations in how diseases impact on women's lives and how women use the existence of STDs to negotiate for more autonomy and social status, the project will advance our understanding of gender relations in traditional societies and of the cultural interpretations of STDs. Improvements in our knowledge of how people interpret the meaning of STDs is a necessary step towards designing interventions that work to control the diseases.