Hammar looks at what happens to national HIV programs when science and religion collide and when both ignore the setting of most infections in or on the way to marriage, specifically in Papua, New Guinea.

Focusing on issues of empathy and mutuality, and self and
other, as experienced in the everyday challenges of doing
participant-observation fieldwork, this volume makes a significant
contribution to rethinking the experiential and conceptual
construction of the field. The contributors adopt a critical
and self reflexive approach that goes beyond issues of voice
and representation raised by early postmodern anthropology,
to grapple with issues concerning the nature of knowledge
transmission that lie at the very heart of the ethnographic effort.
They explore how multiple modes of attending,...