Alchemy in the rain forest: politics, ecology, and resilience in a New Guinea mining area Jerry K. Jacka.
Series: New ecologies for the twenty-first centuryPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015Description: pages cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780822360117Subject(s): Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Porgera | Gold mines and mining -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea -- Porgera | Gold mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- Papua New Guinea -- Porgera | Porgera (Papua New Guinea) -- Social conditions -- 21st century | Porgera (Papua New Guinea) -- Environmental conditions -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 995.6305
Contents:
Resource frontiers in the montane tropics -- Colonialism, mining, and missionization -- Land: Yu -- People: Wandakali -- Spirits: Yama -- Ecological perturbations and human responses -- Social dislocations: work, antiwork, and highway life -- Conclusion : development, resilience, and the end of the land.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Resource frontiers in the montane tropics -- Colonialism, mining, and missionization -- Land: Yu -- People: Wandakali -- Spirits: Yama -- Ecological perturbations and human responses -- Social dislocations: work, antiwork, and highway life -- Conclusion : development, resilience, and the end of the land.
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