| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 224 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Culture, place, and nature |
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Culture, place, and nature.
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| Contents |
Above the Alluvial Flats -- Mining Nature -- Grounding Kinship -- Working the Land -- Becoming Conservationists -- Becoming a Mining Community -- Whose Closure? -- Belonging |
| Summary |
Since the start of colonial gold mining in the early 1920s, the Biangai villagers of Elauru and Winima in Papua New Guinea have moved away from planting yams and other subsistence foods to cultivating coffee and other cash crops and dishing for tradable flakes of gold. Decades of industrial gold mining, land development, conservation efforts, and biological research have wrought transformations in the landscape and entwined traditional Biangai gardening practices with Western capital, disrupting the social reproduction of a community and the relationship between place and person. Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, Jamon Halvaksz examines the role of place in informing indigenous relationships with conservation and development. How do Biangai make meaning with the physical world? Collapsing Western distinctions between self and an earthly other, Halvaksz shows us it is a sense of place - grounded in productive relationships between nature and culture - is what connects Biangai to one another as "placepersons" and enables them to navigate global forces amid changing local and regional economies. Centering local responses along the frontiers of resource extraction, Gardens of Gold contributes to our understanding of how neoliberal economic practices intervene in place-based economies and identities."--taken from back cover |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 18, 2020) |
| Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Papua New Guinea
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Gold mines and mining -- Papua New Guinea.
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Nature conservation -- Papua New Guinea
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Gold mines and mining
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Indigenous peoples
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Nature conservation
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Identite collective -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
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Conservation des ressources naturelles -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
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Écologie humaine -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
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Mines d'or -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
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Ethnologie -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
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Papua New Guinea
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780295747613 |
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0295747617 |
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