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Author Golub, Alex, author.

Title Leviathans at the gold mine : creating indigenous and corporate actors in Papua New Guinea / Alex Golub
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Yakatabari negotiations -- The birth of leviathans -- Being Ipili in Porgera -- Innocent population : urban imagination and grassroots Papua New Guinea
Summary Leviathans at the Gold Mine is an ethnographic account of the relationship between the Ipili, an indigenous group in Papua New Guinea, and the large international gold mine operating on their land. It was not until 1939 that Australian territorial patrols reached the Ipili. By 1990, the third largest gold mine on the planet was operating in their valley. Alex Golub examines how ""the mine"" and ""the Ipili"" were brought into being in relation to one another, and how certain individuals were authorized to speak for the mine and others to speak for the Ipili. Considering the relativ
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ipili (Papua New Guinean people) -- History
Gold mines and mining -- Papua New Guinea -- Porgera
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Gold mines and mining
Ipili (Papua New Guinean people)
SUBJECT Porgera (Papua New Guinea) -- History
Subject Papua New Guinea -- Porgera
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822377399
082237739X