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Sexual Cultures and Migration in the Era of AIDS: Anthropological and Demographic Perspectives

by Gilbert Herdt. 262 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Gilbert Herdt

Publisher:

   Clarendon Press

Place of Publication:

  Oxford  

Publication Year:

  1997
Subjects:   Sex Customs--Congresses, Sexually Transmitted Diseases--Congresses, Population Geography--Congresses, Demographic Anthropology--Congresses
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Contents
List of Contributors xi
Part I Introduction
1. Sexual Cultures and Population Movement: Implications for AIDS/STDs Gilbert Herdt 3
2. Others Have Sex with Others: Captain Cook and the Penetration of the Pacific John H. Gagnon 23
Part II Population Movement and AIDS
3. Mobility, Migration, Sex, STDs, and AIDS: An Essay on Sub-Saharan Africa with Other Parallels John C. Caldwell , John K. Anarfi , and Pat Caldwell 41
4. Migration, Sexual Subcultures, and HIV/AIDS in Brazil Richard G. Parker 55
5. Population Movement and the AIDS Epidemic in Thailand Anchalee Singhanetra-Renard 70
6. Refugee Women, Violence, and HIV 87
Part III From Rural to Urban Sexual Risk
7. Urban-Rural Differentials in HIV/STDs and Sexual Behaviour Michel Caraël 107
8. Some Cultural Underpinnings of Male Sexual Behaviour Patterns in Thailand Mark VanLandingham and Nancy Grandjean 127
9. Homophobia and the Ethnoscape of Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro Patrick Larvie 143
Part IV Sexual Networks and Commercial Sex
10. Mobility, Marriage, and Prostitution: Sexual Risk among Thai in the Netherlands Han ten Brummelhuis 167
11. Mobility and Migration: Female Commercial Sex Work and the HIV Epidemic in Northern Thailand Katherine C. Bond , David D. Celentano , Sukanya Phonsophakul , and Chayan Vaddhanaphuti 185
12. Sexual Networking, Use of Condoms, and Perception of STDs and HIV/AIDS Transmission among Migrant Sex Workers in Lagos, Nigeria O. Orubuloye I 216
13. Sexual Relations between Migration Populations (Vietnamese with Mexican and Anglo) and HIV/STD Infection in Southern California Joseph Carrier , Bang Nguyen , and Sammy Su 225
Index 251
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