Barbara Andersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Andersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Andersen |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barbara Andersen is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at Massey University, New Zealand. Her research focuses on social change, gender, and health in Melanesia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction to Special Issue
Learning to Believe in Papua New Guinea
This chapter examines how witchcraft and sorcery beliefs are reproduced among the educated working and middle classes in Papua New Guinea. In a context where tertiary schooling is accessible only to a tiny segment of the population, many educated people in PNG feel anxious about their social position and worry that their upward mobility will provoke envy and resentment in the less fortunate. This anxiety is projected most strongly onto the “ples …
Intimate Economies of Development
"Intimate Economies of Development: Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 18(2), pp. 191–192
Temporal circuits and social triage in a Papua New Guinean Clinic
This article examines how the temporalities generated by the "NGOization" of public health can lead to exclusionary forms of social and clinical triage. Through an ethnographic case study of a public-nongovernmental organization partnership HIV/STI clinic in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, I discuss how ideas about the nature of nongovernmental institutions - as different from the long-established "government" and "church"/"mission" services -…
The open question
The open question: Medical anthropology and open access
Style and self-making
The looped netbag or bilum is one the most culturally significant of everyday objects in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Made exclusively by women, bilum are also iconic of female productive and reproductive labour. In this article, I analyze how growing social stratification is expressed through the types of bilums young women produce and wear. I argue that the choices that young women make about what kinds of designs, shapes, colours, and fashions to i…
Temporal circuits and social triage in a Papua New Guinean Clinic
This article examines how the temporalities generated by the "NGOization" of public health can lead to exclusionary forms of social and clinical triage. Through an ethnographic case study of a public-nongovernmental organization partnership HIV/STI clinic in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, I discuss how ideas about the nature of nongovernmental institutions - as different from the long-established "government" and "church"/"mission" services -…
The open question
The open question: Medical anthropology and open access
Style and self-making
The looped netbag or bilum is one the most culturally significant of everyday objects in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Made exclusively by women, bilum are also iconic of female productive and reproductive labour. In this article, I analyze how growing social stratification is expressed through the types of bilums young women produce and wear. I argue that the choices that young women make about what kinds of designs, shapes, colours, and fashions to i…
Temporal circuits and social triage in a Papua New Guinean Clinic
This article examines how the temporalities generated by the "NGOization" of public health can lead to exclusionary forms of social and clinical triage. Through an ethnographic case study of a public-nongovernmental organization partnership HIV/STI clinic in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, I discuss how ideas about the nature of nongovernmental institutions - as different from the long-established "government" and "church"/"mission" services -…
Learning to Believe in Papua New Guinea
This chapter examines how witchcraft and sorcery beliefs are reproduced among the educated working and middle classes in Papua New Guinea. In a context where tertiary schooling is accessible only to a tiny segment of the population, many educated people in PNG feel anxious about their social position and worry that their upward mobility will provoke envy and resentment in the less fortunate. This anxiety is projected most strongly onto the “ples …
Intimate Economies of Development
"Intimate Economies of Development: Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 18(2), pp. 191–192
Introduction to Special Issue
Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · New guinea (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Art (2 works)