Jamon Alex Halvaksz
Biographic Data
| ID | 83066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamon Alex Halvaksz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamon Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Halvaksz |
| SIGNATURE | HALVAKSZ J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9053-254X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Slow Deaths from Climate Change
How do we tell the stories of climate change? This essay explores the slow violence and death experienced by marginalized, racialized, indigenous bodies as climate change differentially impacts communities across the globe. Paying attention to locations beyond the spectacular events that have come to be associated with climate change, the article highlights violence and death on the margins, and the complex planetary relationships that make such …
Naturalist Histories
Naturalist Histories
From early explorers to contemporary scientists, naturalists have examined island flora and fauna of Oceania, discovering new species, carefully documenting the lives of animals, and creating work central to the image of Oceania. These “discoveries” and exploratory moves have had profound local and global impacts. Often, however, local knowledge and communities are silent in the ethologies and histories that naturalists produce. This volume analy…
Naturalist Histories
Gardens of Gold
Chapter Four. Becoming Conservationists
From modern production to imagined primitive
From modern production to imagined primitive: The social world of coffee from Papua New Guinea by Paige West is a well-written account of the social relationships that are made possible through cof
The Taste of Public Places
This paper considers the relationship between persons, land and food as seen in the sociality of public gatherings and gardening spaces. For Biangai speakers in the Upper Bulolo Valley of Morobe Province (Papua New Guinea), intimacies of place are often read through the work of tending to the land, the symbolic association of crops and people as well as rituals where male and female persons are made. By examining the intersection of taste and pla…
Two New Films from New Ireland
A New Journal for Contemporary Environmental Challenges
Social scientists have been writing about the relationships between people and their surroundings for as long as there has been social scientific inquiry.Fields such as anthropology, economics, history, human geography, law, political science, psychology, and sociology all have long and rich histories of contributing to and pioneering socio-environmental analysis.However, the past 20 years have seen a proliferation of scholarship in the social sc…
The Photographic Assemblage
For Biangai speakers of Papua New Guinea, photography and its images first appear during early colonial contact in the 1920s and spread relatively rapidly through the boom of gold mining and expansion of colonial control. For Biangai speakers, agentive qualities are dispersed throughout an active landscape. Thus, flora and fauna can be viewed as active forces, indexing the otherworldly agencies of spiritual beings. Photographs and the photographi…
Thinking Ecographically
The literature on environment-animal-human relations, place, and space, tends to emphasize cultural differences between global interests and local environmental practices. While this literature contributes substantially to our understanding of resource management, traditional ecological knowledge, and environmental protection, the work of key persons imbricated in both global and local positions has been elided. In this article, we propose a theo…
Whose closure? Appearances, temporality, and mineral extraction in Papua New Guinea
In this article I explore community ideas about mine closure as they are informed by history, memory, and imagined futures. I argue that, through their aesthetic qualities, practices such as mining remain persuasive long after their dissolution. Biangai-speakers (Morobe province, Papua New Guinea) have worked for miners during colonial gold rushes since the mid-1920s, and many more have tried their hands at artisanal mining along the Bulolo and i…
Photographing Spirits
In this article, I examine the intertwined meaning of photographs as image, object, and expression of the relationship created between photographer and subject among the Biangai, a people of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. These relations are highlighted through the method of indigenous photography, in which photographic authority is relinquished and the resulting images are discussed. It is argued that the camera becomes the lens through whic…
Cannabis and Fantasies of Development
Over the past decade, marijuana has become a significant element within Papua New Guinea's communities, revealing an important connection to the broader political economy. For young men, fluctuating commodity prices, the intermittent exploitation of mineral wealth and a reluctant tourist economy only gives them a taste for development. Marijuana seems to offer its permanence. Somewhere between the harsh reality of local economic and ecological fu…
Drug Bodies
Over the past decade, marijuana has become a significant element in the lives of Papua New Guinean youth. While placing them in conflict with community leaders, young men find meaning in marijuana. Used to affect agency, differentiated according to strength and color, and compared to plants once used by their ancestors, the drug is attributed with properties that do in fact change the substance of the body. Contrary to Strathern (1987), marijuana…
Another Kind of Gold
Widespread as marijuana has become in Papua New Guinea (PNG), little ethnographic investigation has been done on problems raised by its cultivation, consumption and traffic there. In this essay, we survey the legal contexts of its production and circulation both in PNG and throughout the Pacific. We assess how the drug has been depicted in the regional literature. While our primary focus is on PNG, our point in offering these broader perspectives…
Becoming ‘local tourists’
This article questions the distinctiveness of hosts and guests, and blurs the boundaries between a commitment to established relationships and an emergent modern tourist identity among Biangai travelers in Papua New Guinea. As a result of colonial pacification, the Biangai increasingly experience the nation as travelers, while at the same time welcoming gold miners, researchers and eco-tourists to their mid-montane forests and wildlife management…
Singing about the Land among the Biangai
This paper examines Biangai (Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea) expressions and transformations of environmental imaginaries through women's mourning songs ( yongo ingi ) and the songs of string bands. Biangai personhood, once intimately connected to garden lands and trees, hunting and forest paths, is increasingly influenced by global capitalism. Through their songs, they betray an increased tension between acting as an individual person and act…
Anthropology Education Is Never Too Early
Freedom in Entangled Worlds
Whose closure? Appearances, temporality, and mineral extraction in Papua New Guinea
In this article I explore community ideas about mine closure as they are informed by history, memory, and imagined futures. I argue that, through their aesthetic qualities, practices such as mining remain persuasive long after their dissolution. Biangai-speakers (Morobe province, Papua New Guinea) have worked for miners during colonial gold rushes since the mid-1920s, and many more have tried their hands at artisanal mining along the Bulolo and i…
The Photographic Assemblage
For Biangai speakers of Papua New Guinea, photography and its images first appear during early colonial contact in the 1920s and spread relatively rapidly through the boom of gold mining and expansion of colonial control. For Biangai speakers, agentive qualities are dispersed throughout an active landscape. Thus, flora and fauna can be viewed as active forces, indexing the otherworldly agencies of spiritual beings. Photographs and the photographi…
Becoming ‘local tourists’
This article questions the distinctiveness of hosts and guests, and blurs the boundaries between a commitment to established relationships and an emergent modern tourist identity among Biangai travelers in Papua New Guinea. As a result of colonial pacification, the Biangai increasingly experience the nation as travelers, while at the same time welcoming gold miners, researchers and eco-tourists to their mid-montane forests and wildlife management…
The Taste of Public Places
This paper considers the relationship between persons, land and food as seen in the sociality of public gatherings and gardening spaces. For Biangai speakers in the Upper Bulolo Valley of Morobe Province (Papua New Guinea), intimacies of place are often read through the work of tending to the land, the symbolic association of crops and people as well as rituals where male and female persons are made. By examining the intersection of taste and pla…
Photographing Spirits
In this article, I examine the intertwined meaning of photographs as image, object, and expression of the relationship created between photographer and subject among the Biangai, a people of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. These relations are highlighted through the method of indigenous photography, in which photographic authority is relinquished and the resulting images are discussed. It is argued that the camera becomes the lens through whic…
Anthropology Education Is Never Too Early
Singing about the Land among the Biangai
This paper examines Biangai (Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea) expressions and transformations of environmental imaginaries through women's mourning songs ( yongo ingi ) and the songs of string bands. Biangai personhood, once intimately connected to garden lands and trees, hunting and forest paths, is increasingly influenced by global capitalism. Through their songs, they betray an increased tension between acting as an individual person and act…
Drug Bodies
Over the past decade, marijuana has become a significant element in the lives of Papua New Guinean youth. While placing them in conflict with community leaders, young men find meaning in marijuana. Used to affect agency, differentiated according to strength and color, and compared to plants once used by their ancestors, the drug is attributed with properties that do in fact change the substance of the body. Contrary to Strathern (1987), marijuana…
Another Kind of Gold
Widespread as marijuana has become in Papua New Guinea (PNG), little ethnographic investigation has been done on problems raised by its cultivation, consumption and traffic there. In this essay, we survey the legal contexts of its production and circulation both in PNG and throughout the Pacific. We assess how the drug has been depicted in the regional literature. While our primary focus is on PNG, our point in offering these broader perspectives…
Becoming ‘local tourists’
This article questions the distinctiveness of hosts and guests, and blurs the boundaries between a commitment to established relationships and an emergent modern tourist identity among Biangai travelers in Papua New Guinea. As a result of colonial pacification, the Biangai increasingly experience the nation as travelers, while at the same time welcoming gold miners, researchers and eco-tourists to their mid-montane forests and wildlife management…
Cannabis and Fantasies of Development
Over the past decade, marijuana has become a significant element within Papua New Guinea's communities, revealing an important connection to the broader political economy. For young men, fluctuating commodity prices, the intermittent exploitation of mineral wealth and a reluctant tourist economy only gives them a taste for development. Marijuana seems to offer its permanence. Somewhere between the harsh reality of local economic and ecological fu…
Thinking Ecographically
The literature on environment-animal-human relations, place, and space, tends to emphasize cultural differences between global interests and local environmental practices. While this literature contributes substantially to our understanding of resource management, traditional ecological knowledge, and environmental protection, the work of key persons imbricated in both global and local positions has been elided. In this article, we propose a theo…
Whose closure? Appearances, temporality, and mineral extraction in Papua New Guinea
In this article I explore community ideas about mine closure as they are informed by history, memory, and imagined futures. I argue that, through their aesthetic qualities, practices such as mining remain persuasive long after their dissolution. Biangai-speakers (Morobe province, Papua New Guinea) have worked for miners during colonial gold rushes since the mid-1920s, and many more have tried their hands at artisanal mining along the Bulolo and i…
Photographing Spirits
In this article, I examine the intertwined meaning of photographs as image, object, and expression of the relationship created between photographer and subject among the Biangai, a people of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. These relations are highlighted through the method of indigenous photography, in which photographic authority is relinquished and the resulting images are discussed. It is argued that the camera becomes the lens through whic…
A New Journal for Contemporary Environmental Challenges
Social scientists have been writing about the relationships between people and their surroundings for as long as there has been social scientific inquiry.Fields such as anthropology, economics, history, human geography, law, political science, psychology, and sociology all have long and rich histories of contributing to and pioneering socio-environmental analysis.However, the past 20 years have seen a proliferation of scholarship in the social sc…
The Photographic Assemblage
For Biangai speakers of Papua New Guinea, photography and its images first appear during early colonial contact in the 1920s and spread relatively rapidly through the boom of gold mining and expansion of colonial control. For Biangai speakers, agentive qualities are dispersed throughout an active landscape. Thus, flora and fauna can be viewed as active forces, indexing the otherworldly agencies of spiritual beings. Photographs and the photographi…
Two New Films from New Ireland
The Taste of Public Places
This paper considers the relationship between persons, land and food as seen in the sociality of public gatherings and gardening spaces. For Biangai speakers in the Upper Bulolo Valley of Morobe Province (Papua New Guinea), intimacies of place are often read through the work of tending to the land, the symbolic association of crops and people as well as rituals where male and female persons are made. By examining the intersection of taste and pla…
From modern production to imagined primitive
From modern production to imagined primitive: The social world of coffee from Papua New Guinea by Paige West is a well-written account of the social relationships that are made possible through cof
Gardens of Gold
Chapter Four. Becoming Conservationists
Naturalist Histories
Naturalist Histories
From early explorers to contemporary scientists, naturalists have examined island flora and fauna of Oceania, discovering new species, carefully documenting the lives of animals, and creating work central to the image of Oceania. These “discoveries” and exploratory moves have had profound local and global impacts. Often, however, local knowledge and communities are silent in the ethologies and histories that naturalists produce. This volume analy…
Naturalist Histories
Freedom in Entangled Worlds
The Slow Deaths from Climate Change
How do we tell the stories of climate change? This essay explores the slow violence and death experienced by marginalized, racialized, indigenous bodies as climate change differentially impacts communities across the globe. Paying attention to locations beyond the spectacular events that have come to be associated with climate change, the article highlights violence and death on the margins, and the complex planetary relationships that make such …
Sociology (14 works) · History (10 works) · Ethnology (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 works) · New guinea (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works)