Title Alchemy in the rain forest : politics, ecology, and resilience in a New Guinea mining area / Jerry K. Jacka

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations, maps Series New ecologies for the twenty-first century New ecologies for the twenty-first century. Contents 1. Resource frontiers in the montane tropics -- 2. Colonialism, mining, and missionization -- 3. Land: Yu -- 4. People: Wandakali -- 5. Spirits: Yama -- 6. Ecological perturbations and human responses -- 7. Social dislocations: work, antiwork, and highway life -- Conclusion : development, resilience, and the end of the land Summary Annotation In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the impacts large-scale commercial gold mining in the region has had on ecology and social relations. Despite the deadly interclan violence and widespread pollution brought on by mining, the uneven distribution of its financial benefits has led many Porgerans to call for further development. This desire for increased mining, Jacka points out, counters popular portrayals of indigenous people as innate conservationists who defend the environment from international neoliberal development. Jacka's examination of the ways Porgerans search for common ground between capitalist and indigenous ways of knowing and being points to the complexity and interconnectedness of land, indigenous knowledge, and the global economy in Porgera and beyond Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Porgera Gold mines and mining -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea -- Porgera Gold mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- Papua New Guinea -- Porgera HISTORY -- Oceania. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Ecology Ethnology Gold mines and mining -- Environmental aspects Gold mines and mining -- Social aspects Social conditions Ipili Politische Ökologie Ressourcenmanagement Entwicklungspolitik Goldbergwerk Interessenkonflikt Umweltschaden Gewalttätigkeit Sozioökonomischer Wandel SUBJECT Porgera (Papua New Guinea) -- Social conditions -- 21st century Porgera (Papua New Guinea) -- Environmental conditions -- 21st century Subject Papua New Guinea -- Porgera Papua-Neuguinea Porgera Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822375012 082237501X

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