Jacka Alchemy in the Rain Forest

Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7501-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacka, Jerry K.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I. The Making of a Resource Frontier 21

1. Resource Frontiers in the Montane Tropics 25

2. Colonialism, Mining, and Missionization 49

Part II. Indigenous Philosophies of Nature, Culture, and Place 77

3. Land: Yu 81

4. People: Wandakali 105

5. Spirits: Yama 129

Part III. Social-Ecological Perturbations and Human Responses 157

6. Ecological Perturbations and Human Responses 157

7. Social Dislocations: Work, Antiwork, and Highway Life 199

Conclusion: Development, Resilience, and the End of the Land 229

Notes 241

References 249

Index 269

Über Autor(innen)

Jerry K. Jacka is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.