PNG, green island of gold, floating on a sea of oil

PNG, green island of gold, floating on a sea of oil (powered by gas)

Ryan Schram
ANTH 3603: Melanesian worlds
ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au
Social Sciences Building 410 (A02)
Week of May 17, 2021 (Week 11)

Slides available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2700/2021/11

Main reading: Biersack (1999); Biersack (2006)

References and further reading

Biersack, Aletta. 1999. “The Mount Kare Python and His Gold: Totemism and Ecology in the Papua New Guinea Highlands.” American Anthropologist 101 (1): 68–87. http://www.jstor.org/stable/683342.

———. 2006. “Red River, Green War: The Politics of Place on the Porgera River.” In Reimagining Political Ecology, edited by Aletta Biersack and James B. Greenberg, 233–80. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.