摘要
This article examines the emerging stigmatization of AIDS in a mountainous community of the Nuosu, a minority group in southwest China. The Nuosu did not discriminate against victims of the disease prior to state intervention, but stigma has been introduced by the Chinese state agents' mechanical transplantation of a global AIDS intervention program, which has generated fear of AIDS in the community. This situation developed from state agents' willful ignorance of the local moral world, an attitude cultivated since the beginning of China's socialist nation-building project in the 1950s. By unraveling Nuosu perceptions of AIDS and by delving into local particularities, this article points out the potential problems de-contextualized global disease-control projects may cause in diverse local contexts. Copyright © 2009 by the Society for Applied Anthropology.