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This question will be explored through qualitative methods that link discursive, material and phenomenological levels of HIVAIDS, gender and morality. These
methods are, mainly: interviewing, participant observation, and focus group discussions. These methods will be complemented by an analysis of public
debates on morality and HIVAIDS in local and national mass media. The study focuses on three key research populationsorganizations, namely: 1. people living
with HIVAIDS 2. civil society organizations working in the ield of HIVAIDS and gender, and 3. policy makers concerned with issues of HIVAIDS and gender. Aceh
and North Sumatra were selected as suitable locations for the research, because of their diverging public moral discourses and because these provinces have
diverging numbers of HIV prevalence, which makes them extremely interesting for comparison. The largest part of this 12-month study will be spent in Banda
Aceh nine months, with a smaller comparative study focusing on Medan three months. The researcher is hosted by the International Center for Aceh and Indian
Ocean Studies ICAIOS, part of Syiah Kuala University, in Banda Aceh.
This study has a high theoretical and societal relevance. Based on previous studies in other parts of the world, it can be expected that a better qualitative
understanding of the relations between HIVAIDS, morality, gender and the body will provide recommendations for the containment of the epidemic. This research
project is therefore committed to contributing insights that will help to ight HIV AIDS, in Aceh and North Sumatra, in Indonesia, and beyond.
11.1 Ms. Annemarie Samuels
Warga Negara : Belanda
Jabatan : Postdoctoral Researcher
Institusi : University of Amsterdam
No. SIP : 308SIPFRPSMVIII2013
12. Theirrelevance of Cosmological aspects of the human adaption to the nature environment
Tujuan Penelitian : Mengkaji hubungan antara masyarakat dan aspek-aspek
keagamaan dan lingkungan alam
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Bidang Penelitian : Antropologi Budaya
Daerah Penelitian : Jambi dan Sumbar Bukit Barisan dan G. Kerinci
Lama Penelitian : 3 tiga bulan mulai 8 April 2013
Mitra Kerja : Jurusan Antropologi – FISIP, Universitas Andalas Lucky
Zamzami, S.Sos, M.soc.Sc.
Abstrak
Indonesia is a unique nation regarding it’s cultural and environmental diversity, which attracted researchers since ever and still ofers a great potential for interesting
investigations in diferent scientiic ields. The cultural diversity irst is relected through the religious pluralism according the pancasila and the diverse prevailing
belief systems, which can be encountered throughout the whole archipelago. Second the diversity is represented through the diferent geological, geographical
and climatic areas which characterizes the respecting parts of Indonesia. As such diferent people with their speciic culture live in diferent natural environments
in one nation. In a globalized world where transmigration is facilitated through the increased mobility, people have to cope with new sociocultural and natural
environmental situations. Also the increasing transformations of the nature itself due to diferent reasons may challenge people to live with such new conditions.
In this respect the aim of my anthropological research will be to place the people around Gunung Kerinci in the highlands of the Sumatran Bukit Barisan into an
interrelational web with special considerations of the religious aspects and of the natural environment.
The human actions in the everyday are guided by their respective cosmology or what Geertz terms as worldview and Rappaport as cognized models. The term
cosmology I prefer in my investigation because it is not an exclusive concept and includes many sociocultural aspects as religion, belief, ethic, norms and
conventions. As we assume that the cosmologies are cultural speciic, we may expect diferent cosmological concepts in a heterogenic society. The human
individual as also the society on the whole are linking the religious aspects with the natural environment. Hereby the relevance or irrelevance of the cosmological
thinking of this people on their extractive or protective behavior toward the natural environment should be investigated. Questions as how they understand
their natural environment and how they act upon it and especially what is the
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role of the religions hereby will be of primary interests. A special focus I will put on the Islam as a religious institution and as a possible catalyst for the behavior
of the people.
This research is intended to a better understanding of diferent perspectives of diferent sociocultural groups upon their natural environment and their use of
it. Also it should contribute to an enhanced understanding of how people with diferent ethnic and sociocultural backgrounds are living together and in this
respect how Indonesia as a nation perceives itself under the slogan “Unity in diversity”.
12.1 Mr. Patrick Thuer