Culture and Sexual Risk

Han ten Brummelhuis, as a Thai specialist with an interest in medical anthropology, has followed the Thai AIDS epidemic from its beginning in 1987. He became involved in several projects dealing with cultural and social aspects of AIDS in Thailand. Recently he studied Thai marriage and family, Thai communities in Europe, and the Buddhist potential for HIV/AIDS care. Gilbert Herdt is Director of the Center for Culture and Mental Health Research, and Professor of the Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago. His most recent books are Children of Horizons: How Gay and Lesbian Youth Are Forging a New Way Out of the Closet (with Andrew Boxer) and Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in History and Culture.

• Introduction—Anthropology in the Context of AIDS Part I CULTURE AND BEYOND: THE WIDER CONTEXT OF SEXUAL RISK 1 Culture, Poverty, and the Dynamics of HIV Transmission in Rural Haiti 2 Culture, Sex Research and AIDS Prevention in Africa 3 Vulnerability to HIV Infection Among Three Hill Tribes in Northern Thailand Part II CONTEXTUALIZING SEXUAL RISK 4 Gender, Age and Class: Discourses on HIV Transmission and Control in Uganda 5 Sexuality, AIDS and Gender Norms Among Brazilian Teenagers 6 The Dynamics of Condom Use in Thai Sex Work with Farang Clients 7 Risky Business? Men Who Buy Heterosexual Sex in Spain Part III SEXUAL RISK AMONG WESTERN GAY MEN 8 Sexual Negotiations: An Ethnographic Study of Men Who Have Sex with Men 9 Social Stress and Risky Sex Among Gay Men: An Additional Explanation for the Persistence of Unsafe Sex 10 Risk in Context: The Use of Sexual Diary Data to Analyse Homosexual Risk Behaviour 11 Talking About AIDS: Linguistic Perspectives on Non-Neutral Discourse Part IV THE STUDY OF CULTURE AND SEXUAL RISK 12 Disembodied Acts: On the Perverse Use of Sexual Categories in the Study of High-Risk Behaviour 13 The Social and Cultural Construction of Sexual Risk, or How to Have (Sex) Research in an Epidemic 14 Theory and Method in HIV Prevention: The Philippine Experience 15 Rethinking Anthropology: The Study of AIDS 16 Half-Way There: Anthropology and Intervention Oriented AIDS Research in KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa