This study examined the reactions of White counselor trainees to hypothetical, provocative, cross-racial counseling and supervision dyads. It employed a qualitative methodology of inquiry to explore the underlying dynamics associated with cross-racial counseling and supervision dyads. Working with a sample of 8 White male and female counselor trainees, a focus group interview was conducted using vignettes that depicted racial issues in counseling and supervision situations. The focus group interview was transcribed, and themes and categories that captured the complexity of the trainees’ reactions to racially charged situations in counseling and supervision were identified. The implications of the study’s findings are discussed and direction is offered for future research in this area.
Luise White's (1991) framework for studying prostitution empirically, in terms of its "labor forms," uncovers the structure and function of "sex industries." In this essay I describe and analyze four such labor forms based upon fieldwork conducted during 1990‐92 on Dam island, capital of Papua New Guinea's Western Province. Those forms are: 1) family, 2) freelance, 3) sex broker, and 4) outdoor bush. Amidst these different forms of sexual networking, including marriage, women are caught between their opportunities to act agentially and the structures of domination that impinge upon them — patriarchy, capital, heterosexuality, and the state. Using what Allen Feldman calls "zones of terror" to develop an ethnography of violence, and to sharpen our sense of anthropological praxis, 1 clarify the difference between gender violence and gendered violence. Gender violence consists of social, economic, political, and cultural double standards that are multiplying in form and intensity through Papua New Guinea. Gendered violence, or sexually embodied violence wrought through genitalia, is likewise multiplying and becoming eroticized. I conclude that anthropological praxis requires not only doing "good enough" ethnography but situating violence in an expanded, reflexive field that includes ethnographers.
A three‐years‐long, multi‐sited, multi‐method study conducted throughout Papua New Guinea by the Institute of Medical Research revealed a staggering prevalence of sexually transmitted disease (STD) that threatens an already fragile political‐economy and health services delivery system. Logistics, methodological complexities, and political and especially religious sensitivities hampered conduct of such research. Extremely little HIV social research has been allowed to inform interventions or serosurveillance protocols. Well‐ intended but ill‐conceived international initiatives have promoted a normative AIDS paradigm that misconstrues HIV transmission risk, incites greater fear, increases stigma, and promotes anti‐condom rhetoric. This collection ‘HIV/AIDS in Rural Papua New Guinea’ presents a sustained series of ethnographically based accounts of rural responses. In this epilogue I situate the importance of those responses in a discussion of the great divide between the lived realities of HIV infection and AIDS related suffering on the one hand, and the discursive practices and policies of media, public health, international donors and NGOs on the other.
Despite the continuing problem of repeat drunk driving (DUI) offenders, little is known of the characteristics of this population. This article reports findings from qualitative interviews with 12 incarcerated men who had been convicted for 5 or more DUIs. Participants' sociodemographic characteristics, patterns of substance abuse, treatment history, attitudes toward positive behavioral change, and recommendations for improving treatment are described. Three groups were identified in regard to the degree of recognition of substance abuse and level of motivation to engage in treatment and post-release rehabilitation. Participants also offered suggestions to improve treatment strategies for repeat DUI offenders by tailoring diverse educational and counseling programs that target the differing types of DUI recidivists. The findings provide preliminary qualitative insight into a unique population that may be used to inform future studies.
The paper describes the unfolding situation of prostitution on Daru Island, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, a practice that is also growing elsewhere on a worldwide scale. Owing to the seriousness of the problem and to the character of the fieldwork, understudied as it is in anthropology, the author claims that to set the field material merely within the context of the debate between relativism and ethnocentrism will not get us very far. He recommends intervention, holding that intervention in such cases is not ethnocentrism-intolerance of a feature of another culture-but a matter of global responsibility.
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