1 option
Alchemy in the rain forest : politics, ecology, and resilience in a New Guinea mining area / Jerry K. Jacka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacka, Jerry K., 1966- author.
- Series:
- New ecologies for the twenty-first century.
- New ecologies for the twenty-first century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--Porgera.
- Ethnology.
- Gold mines and mining--Social aspects--Papua New Guinea--Porgera.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Gold mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Papua New Guinea--Porgera.
- Porgera (Papua New Guinea)--Social conditions--21st century.
- Porgera (Papua New Guinea).
- Porgera (Papua New Guinea)--Environmental conditions--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's Porgeran highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of the extreme social conflict and environmental degradation brought on by commercial gold mining.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375012
- 082237501X
- OCLC:
- 922016023
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.