The End of the Beginning? Mining, sacred geographies, memory and performance in Lihir
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11618494 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Bainton (0000-0001-7571-3679, The University of Queensland, corresponding author), Nicholas A Bainton, C Ballard (0000-0002-8455-6908, Australian National University), Kirsty Gillespie (0000-0001-5337-4370, The University of Queensland) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 22-49 |
| Publication date | 2012-02-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Australian Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1035-8811 • E-ISSN: 1757-6547 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1757-6547.2012.00169.x |
| OpenAlex | W2103573357 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 46 |
This article explores the critical ways in which the relationship between landscape and memory is mediated by performance—through song, dance, ritual and the movements of the living and the dead. In the Lihir group of islands, in Papua New Guinea, these acts of memorialisation are rehearsed on a remarkable stage, an involuted cosmography or sacred geography in which the cosmological point of origin, the sacred rock of Ailaya, is also the ultimate destination for all human and spirit forms. Spirit beings are held to have emerged from the Ailaya, spreading across the island group, their tracks charting the links amongst distant clan members and the networks of alliance between trading partners. It is to the Ailaya that the spirits of deceased Lihirians must return, following preparatory mortuary rites and sung along a route that recalls the spirit connections. This teleological process is mapped through an account of the performance of relationships between people and land, to which an additional layer of complexity is added by the presence of a giant gold mine, in which the Ailaya is again the central feature
Alliance · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Clan · Dance · Epistemology · Ethnology · Literature · New guinea · Sociology · Teleology · Tian · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Philosophy
Weaving Biocultural Worlds
A critical review of the social aspects of mine closure
Menacing the Mine
Preparing for death
Fieldwork in a context of decolonization
Untangling indigenous land rights
Integrating cultural and spiritual restoration into mine closure
Land and access
Place re‐making and sense of place after quarrying and social‐ecological restoration
The industrial ethic, corporate refusal and the demise of the social function in mining
Mining, movements and sustainable development
Ethnomusicology and the Mining Industry
Tracing the Melanesian Person
Compound exposure
Coming Out of the Stone
Summoning Breadfruit" and "Opening Seas
The empty place
Social reproduction and history in Melanesia
Habu
Tracks, Traces, and Links to Land in Aboriginal Australia, New Guinea, and Beyond
Seating the Place
Genealogy and Topogeny
Senses of Place
The sorrow of the lonely and the burning of the dancers
Emplaced Myth
The Anthropology of Landscape
Steep Slopes
Land and Marine Tenure, Ownership, and New Forms of Entitlement on Lihir
Steep Slopes
Grief as social experience
Tabar To‐day
Body, Vision and Movement
Skin, personhood and redemption
Singing about the Land among the Biangai
Death in Tanga
Local people's accounts of climate change
Robert Hertz’s seminal essay and mortuary rites in the Pacific region
Mandak Realities
Ethnicity, Identity and Music
Assemblage of Spirits
Aboriginal Beliefs vs. Mining at Coronation Hill
Sound and Sentiment
The Lihir Destiny
Lihir Destiny
The Genesis and the Escalation of Desire and Antipathy in the Lihir Islands, Papua New Guinea
The centre cannot hold. Trade networks and sacred geography in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
The Poetic Power of Place
Tambaran
Stepping Stones Across the Lihir Islands
Culture, Conservation and Community Reconstruction
Stone-Faced Ancestors
Asiwinarong
Trickery and Sacrifice
Culture in a Sealed Envelope
Culture and the Question of Rights
Singers of the landscape
Places and Spirits in a Sepik Society
Places, loss and logging among the Kamula
Anthropology and Aboriginal Tradition
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |