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

9412381 Knauft / Wardlow 本项目涉及埃默里大学人类学学生的论文研究。 该学生将研究性传播疾病（STDs）对巴布亚新几内亚部落社会的社会文化影响。 该项目将重点关注这个社会中的妇女如何利用这一疾病类别，通过指责男子传播疾病来获得道德社会地位。 通过对两个样本妇女的深入访谈，50名报告患有性病的妇女和50名没有性病的妇女，该项目将分析妇女的选择，言论和社会地位。 此外，该项目还将分析来自性病流行率诊所记录的数据。 这项研究很重要，因为它将为性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性别关系以及对性传播疾病的文化解释的理解。提高我们对人们如何解释性传播疾病含义的认识是设计控制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.