Anthropology 4400E Chapter Notes - Chapter online reading: Participant Observation, Ethnography, Virtue Ethics
12 Apr 2018
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Anthro 4400 notes on reading the extraordinary ethics of being hiv-positive in rural png by holly wardlow. Hiv/aids is entwined with the moral domain and thus a person who has it will affect their moral status. In png it it assumed that a person"s hiv status is due to their own sexually illicit or sinful acts. Even those who receive if from their spouse is seen as being morally tainted. Huli women with hiv in png engage in bodily and social practices that tell people they are moral people. They engage in ordinary acts of female care-taking, but in a pronounced or heightened way intended to draw a recipient"s attention. Wardlow says they are (extra)ordinary acts because they are ordinary acts always done but they are modi ed to receive attention/be remarked on. Their positions doing this is based on their status as women and hiv positive people.
