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Leviathans at the gold mine : creating indigenous and corporate actors in Papua New Guinea / Alex Golub.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Golub, Alex, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ipili (Papua New Guinean people)--History.
- Ipili (Papua New Guinean people).
- Gold mines and mining--Papua New Guinea--Porgera.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Porgera (Papua New Guinea)--History.
- Porgera (Papua New Guinea).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Leviathans at the Gold Mine is an ethnography about the Ipili, an indigenous group in Papua New Guinea; an enormous gold mine operated by an international conglomerate on Ipili land; and the process through which ""the Ipili"" and ""the mine"" brought each other into being as entities.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Yakatabari Negotiations; Chapter 2. The Birth of Leviathans; Chapter 3. Being Ipili in Porgera; Chapter 4. The Melanesian Way; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9781306475976
- 9780822377399
- 082237739X
- OCLC:
- 868026404
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