Who Is the "Original Affluent Society"? Ipili "Predatory Expansion" and the Porgera Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8069859 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Golub |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 265-292 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Contemporary Pacific/ The contemporary Pacific (Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1043-898X • E-ISSN: 1527-9464 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cp.2006.0016 |
| OpenAlex | W2073684892 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 7 |
The idea of the "ecologically noble savage" once linked environmental activists and indigenous people. Today the concept is increasingly seen as problematic. In the Porgera district of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, Ipili people confront massive social change brought about by the presence of a large gold mine. This paper explores how Ipili people find some aspects of global consumer culture to offer utopian possibilities for change, while others present dystopic inversions of their own culture. In doing so, it compares Western attempts to understand Ipili as noble or ignoble savages with Ipili attempts to make sense of the material culture and mores of outsiders. It concludes that both Ipili and westerners have unsettling insights into each other's culture
Aesthetics · Art · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Indigenous · Mores · New guinea · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Ecology · Law
Fencing in Aids
Eating money
Being Bhil
The Sun and the Shakers, Again
The Sun and the Shakers, Again
Mining narratives and multiple geographies in Papua New Guinea
Legal enclosure” and resource extraction
Intersectionality in resource extraction
Men of Kastom and the Customs of Men
Local experiences with mining royalties, company and the state in the Solomon Islands
Afterword
Mediated risks
Sympathy, State Building, and the Experience of Empire
| Unique citing works | 13 |
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| Citations per year | 0,72 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |