Katherine Lepani
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3866879 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Katherine Lepani |
| NOMBRES | Katherine |
| APELLIDO | Lepani |
| FIRMA | LEPANI K |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-5183-1711 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Samting Bilong Yumi Yet
This personal narrative celebrates Papua New Guinea's (PNG) 50th year as an independent nation by charting the author's experience working with the PNG National Theatre Company after meeting them at the second South Pacific Festival of Arts in Rotorua, New Zealand, in 1976. The theatre's slogan in Tok Pisin, ‘samting bilong yumi yet’ (something that belongs to ourselves), provides a recurring mantra to explore the themes of personhood, identity a…
"Steady with Custom"
In this chapter, the author draws on ethnographic research conducted in the Trobriands in 2001 and 2003, in which she explored the way representations of HIV and AIDS are understood through the lenses of cultural knowledge, social practice, and embodied experience. She considers the historical and contemporary tensions between converging bodies of knowledge, and the troubling contradictions between edicts of behavior change and the sustained expr…
Virgin Birth
The term “virgin birth” represents a conceptual conundrum as the subject of recurrent debate in the genealogy of anthropological theories on kinship, gender, and reproduction and ethnographic interpretations of indigenous knowledge about conception. The notion stems from Bronisław Malinowski's ethnographic accounts of conception beliefs among Trobriand Islanders of the southwestern Pacific, specifically their purported ignorance of physiological …
W einer, A nnette (1933–97)
Annette Weiner was a distinguished anthropologist who made lasting contributions to anthropological theory on gender, kinship, and exchange, based on her original fieldwork in the matrilineal Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific. Her key text, Women of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives in Trobriand Exchange (1976), which focuses on women's wealth in mortuary ceremonies, exemplifies how ethnographic perspectives are …
Sinuous Objects
Doba and Ephemeral Durability
Proclivity and Prevalence
The unexpected turns of daily life encountered during ethnographic research offer unique entry points for closer consideration of how social issues are conceptually and morally framed. This chapter begins by recounting one such moment that occurred during my research on culture, sexuality and HIV in the Trobriand Islands. 1 In retrospect, the event offers a local narrative about how people perceive rights in contemporary Papua New Guinea and, in …
‘ I am Still a Young Girl if I Want’
In the T robriand Islands of P apua N ew G uinea, sexuality is valued as a positive expression of relational personhood, registering the efficacy of consensual and pleasurable practice in producing and maintaining social relations. The power of sexuality to demonstrate individual and collective capacity and potential holds particular salience for unmarried young people. This paper draws on my ethnographic research on culture and HIV in the Trobri…
Islands of Love, Islands of Risk
Making Sense of Aids
Mobility, Violence and the Gendering of HIV in Papua New Guinea
The links between gender, sexuality and violence hold serious implications for HIV transmission and its social and economic effects. In Papua New Guinea, enduring and pervasive patterns of male sexual behaviour involving coercion, violence and gang rape are highly conducive to the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and have a critical bearing on women's sexual autonomy and health. The realities of violence are intensifi…
Sovasova and the Problem of Sameness
This article considers how different models of sexuality and disease converge and interact to co‐produce understandings of HIV and AIDS, and the implications of inter‐cultural communication for effective HIV prevention in diverse settings. In the Trobriands Islands of Papua New Guinea, the phenomenon of sovasova , or chronic illness that manifests when members of the same matrilineal clan have sexual relations, is a persuasive and problematic for…
Sinuous Objects
Mobility, Violence and the Gendering of HIV in Papua New Guinea
The links between gender, sexuality and violence hold serious implications for HIV transmission and its social and economic effects. In Papua New Guinea, enduring and pervasive patterns of male sexual behaviour involving coercion, violence and gang rape are highly conducive to the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and have a critical bearing on women's sexual autonomy and health. The realities of violence are intensifi…
Sovasova and the Problem of Sameness
This article considers how different models of sexuality and disease converge and interact to co‐produce understandings of HIV and AIDS, and the implications of inter‐cultural communication for effective HIV prevention in diverse settings. In the Trobriands Islands of Papua New Guinea, the phenomenon of sovasova , or chronic illness that manifests when members of the same matrilineal clan have sexual relations, is a persuasive and problematic for…
Making Sense of Aids
Mobility, Violence and the Gendering of HIV in Papua New Guinea
The links between gender, sexuality and violence hold serious implications for HIV transmission and its social and economic effects. In Papua New Guinea, enduring and pervasive patterns of male sexual behaviour involving coercion, violence and gang rape are highly conducive to the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and have a critical bearing on women's sexual autonomy and health. The realities of violence are intensifi…
Islands of Love, Islands of Risk
‘ I am Still a Young Girl if I Want’
In the T robriand Islands of P apua N ew G uinea, sexuality is valued as a positive expression of relational personhood, registering the efficacy of consensual and pleasurable practice in producing and maintaining social relations. The power of sexuality to demonstrate individual and collective capacity and potential holds particular salience for unmarried young people. This paper draws on my ethnographic research on culture and HIV in the Trobri…
Proclivity and Prevalence
The unexpected turns of daily life encountered during ethnographic research offer unique entry points for closer consideration of how social issues are conceptually and morally framed. This chapter begins by recounting one such moment that occurred during my research on culture, sexuality and HIV in the Trobriand Islands. 1 In retrospect, the event offers a local narrative about how people perceive rights in contemporary Papua New Guinea and, in …
Sinuous Objects
Doba and Ephemeral Durability
Virgin Birth
The term “virgin birth” represents a conceptual conundrum as the subject of recurrent debate in the genealogy of anthropological theories on kinship, gender, and reproduction and ethnographic interpretations of indigenous knowledge about conception. The notion stems from Bronisław Malinowski's ethnographic accounts of conception beliefs among Trobriand Islanders of the southwestern Pacific, specifically their purported ignorance of physiological …
W einer, A nnette (1933–97)
Annette Weiner was a distinguished anthropologist who made lasting contributions to anthropological theory on gender, kinship, and exchange, based on her original fieldwork in the matrilineal Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific. Her key text, Women of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives in Trobriand Exchange (1976), which focuses on women's wealth in mortuary ceremonies, exemplifies how ethnographic perspectives are …
"Steady with Custom"
In this chapter, the author draws on ethnographic research conducted in the Trobriands in 2001 and 2003, in which she explored the way representations of HIV and AIDS are understood through the lenses of cultural knowledge, social practice, and embodied experience. She considers the historical and contemporary tensions between converging bodies of knowledge, and the troubling contradictions between edicts of behavior change and the sustained expr…
Sinuous Objects
Samting Bilong Yumi Yet
This personal narrative celebrates Papua New Guinea's (PNG) 50th year as an independent nation by charting the author's experience working with the PNG National Theatre Company after meeting them at the second South Pacific Festival of Arts in Rotorua, New Zealand, in 1976. The theatre's slogan in Tok Pisin, ‘samting bilong yumi yet’ (something that belongs to ourselves), provides a recurring mantra to explore the themes of personhood, identity a…
Gender Studies (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 obras) · Ethnology (4 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (3 obras) · Anthropology (3 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Geography (3 obras)