Office: CLE C229
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Phone: 721-6647
Email: lbutt@uvic.ca


Publications

[West Papua/ Irian Jaya]

Medical anthropology; HIV/AIDS; gender, sexuality and reproduction; state/indigenous relations.

Leslie Butt has been researching issues surrounding gender, reproduction and sexuality in eastern Indonesia since 1994. Her research has focused in particular on the cultural values surrounding reproduction, family planning, sex work, and HIV and AIDS in the highlands of the province of Papua. More recently, Leslie has looked at the experiences of young indigenous women who are engaged in sex work in the highlands region, and in particular, at the experiences of those young women who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant. She has recently completed a team-based research project on women, AIDS and stigma in highlands Papua. Leslie has published widely on reproduction, sexuality, HIV/AIDS, and cultural and local responses to health care systems. Leslie is able to supervise students with an interest in gender, sexuality, and reproduction, and is particularly interested in working with graduate and undergraduate students on the impact of new medical technologies on reproductive and sexual practices in the region.

Recent Publications

	Butt, L. 2011. Can You Keep a Secret?: Pretences of Confidentiality in HIV/AIDS Counselling in Papua, Indonesia. Medical Anthropology, 30(3), forthcoming May 2011.
	Butt, L., J. Morin, I. Peyon, G. Numbery and A. Goo. 2010. Stigma and HIV/AIDS in Highlands Papua. Jayapura: Universitas Cenderawasih. [ Research report ]
	Butt, L., J. Morin, I. Peyon, G. Numbery and A. Goo. 2010. Stigma dan HIV/AIDS di Daerah Pegunungan Papua. Jayapura: Universitas Cenderawasih (translation of report "Stigma and HIV/AIDS in Highlands Papua"). [ Research report ]
	Butt, L. and R. Eves (eds). 2008. Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press. Butt, L. 2008. Silence Speaks Volumes: Elite Responses to AIDS in Highlands Papua, In Butt, L. and R. Eves (eds). 2008. Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press.
	Butt, L. "Secret Sex": Youth, Agency, and Changing Sexual Boundaries. Ethnology, forthcoming.
	Butt, L. 2007. Sex Work and Unplanned Infants in Highlands Papua, Indonesia. In P. Liamputtong (ed.), Childrearing and Infant Care: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. NY: Nova Publishers, 2007.
	Butt, L. and J. Munro. 2007. Rebel Girls?: Unplanned Pregnancy and Colonialism in Highlands Papua, Indonesia. Culture, Health and Sexuality 9(6):585-598. [ Rebel Girls ]
	Butt, L. 2005. Sexuality, the State and the 'Runaway Wives' of Highlands Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia. In V. Adams and S. Pigg (eds.), Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective.. Durham: Duke University Press.
	Butt, L. 2005. 'Lipstick Girls' and 'Fallen Women': AIDS and Conspiratorial Thinking in West Papua, Indonesia. Cultural Anthropology 20(3), 412-442. [ Lipstick Girls ]
	Butt, L., G. Numbery, and J. Morin. 2002. The Smokescreen of Culture: AIDS and the Indigenous in Papua, Indonesia. Pacific Health Dialog 9(2): 283-289. [ Smokescreen of Culture ]
	Butt, L. 2002. The Suffering Stranger: Medical Anthropology and International Morality. Medical Anthropology 21(1):1-24. [ Suffering Stranger ], [ Suffering Stranger Response ], [ Suffering Stranger Reply ]

Courses

PAAS 100	Introduction to Asia and the Pacific	[ view Outline ]
PAAS 303	Field Research and the Asia-Pacific	[ view description ]
PAAS 401	Seminar on Culture in Asia and the Pacific	[ view description ]
PAAS 400	Seminar on Research Problems and Theory	[ view Outline ]
PAAS 405	Research Methodologies	[ view Outline ]
PAAS 520	Special Topics in Pacific Studies	[ view Outline ]

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