Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area
by
Jerry K. Jacka
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
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,...