Gardens of gold : place-making in Papua New Guinea.

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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 min...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Halvaksz, Jamon Alex
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Washington] : University of Washington Press, [2020]
Series:Culture, place, and nature.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples > Papua New Guinea.
Gold mines and mining > Papua New Guinea.
Nature conservation > Papua New Guinea.
Or > Mines et extraction > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Nature > Conservation > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Gold mines and mining
Indigenous peoples
Nature conservation
Identite collective > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
Conservation des ressources naturelles > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
Écologie humaine > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
Mines d'or > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
Ethnologie > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
Papua New Guinea
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Above the Alluvial Flats
  • Mining Nature
  • Grounding Kinship
  • Working the Land
  • Becoming Conservationists
  • Becoming a Mining Community
  • Whose Closure?
  • Belonging.

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