Paradoxical Intimacies: the Christian Creation of the Huli Domestic Sphere

This event is held in conjunction with the international conference Paradoxes of Domesticity: Christian missionaries and women in Asia and the Pacific from 9 to 10 August. In this talk Prof. Holly Wardlow will discuss aproblem, or paradox, set in motion in the 1950s by Christian missionaries amongthe Huli in Papua New Guinea, a problem that is still a source of worry, contention, and much mulling over by Huli married couples-spousal co-residenceor cohabitation, the expectation that properly Christian spouses should livetogether in the same house. Holly Wardlow is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her research interests cover issues related to medical anthropology, feminist anthropology, international health, gender and sexuality, HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea.

 

Date & time

Thu 09 Aug 2012, 6–7pm

Location

Acton Theatre, Crawford School #132, ANU

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