Download or read book Ancestral Rainforests And The Mountain Of Gold written by David Hyndman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancestral rain forests for the Wopkaimin people have long been a sacred geography, a place that has allowed them to act out the obligations of the male cult system and social relations of production based on kinship. Today the people and their place are suffering disastrous consequences from the sudden imposition of one of the worlds largest mining projects, which has brought about severe social and ecological disruptions. Based on fieldwork spanning more than a decade, David Hyndmans book traces the extraordinary socioecological transformation of a traditional society confronting modern technological risk. Across the island of New Guinea, the clash between the simple reproduction and subsistence production system of indigenous peoples and the expanded production and private accumulation system of mining has resulted in environmental degradation.
Download or read book The Anthropology of Power written by Angela Cheater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edited collection which examines the theoretical issues surrounding power, and particularly empowerment, which uses ethnographic analysis as its basis. It takes material from the Middle East, Canada, Columbia, Australasia and various parts of Europe and Africa. It looks particularly at the extent to which traditionally disempowered groups gain influence in postcolonial or multicultural settings, and at how power relates to economic development, gender and environmentalism.
Download or read book Reimagining Political Ecology written by Aletta Biersack and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ethnographies grounded in second-generation political ecology, which focuses on the interchanges between nature and culture, and the local and the global.
Download or read book Food Rules written by Harriet Whitehead and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a radically new picture of the role of social actors in the making of culture
Download or read book Transactions and Creations written by Eric Hirsch and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent economic relations in a part of the world renowned for its innovative approach to resources and transactions, wish to open up the vocabulary. In this unique volume, they bring an unexpected comparative perspective to global debates on intellectual and cultural property rights (IPR and CPR). The contributors bring from Melanesia their collective experience of people initiating, limiting and rationalizing claims through transactions in ways that challenge many of the assumptions behind the international language. In a bold theoretical move, "property" is put alongside two other terms: "transactions" and "creations." The former have a place in the anthropological tradition that now needs to be brought into the foreground. In turn, increasing interest in protecting intellectual and cultural resources means that questions about creativity have suddenly become pertinent to what is or is not being transacted. Yet is creativity a special preoccupation of modernity? How are we to talk about people's creative practices, when innovation becomes the basis for ownership claims? This book is full of surprises!
Download or read book Deep Water written by Margaret C Rodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text looks at the importance of fisheries and their utilisation, geopolitics and the political economy throughout the island states of the Pacific. This is an account of fisheries development programs in two Vanuatu villages. The author's goal is to provide an insight into the perspective of rural Ni-Vanuatu on government projects designed to commoditize village fishing.
Download or read book Kilowatts And Crisis written by Alaka Wali and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the people of the Bayano region: the pain of resettlement and the courage with which they responded to the threat to their land 1976. The Bayano River, one of three major rivers of the Darien, rushes through the deforested basin which was to be the dam's reservoir. This was an achievement of General Omar TOirijos, th
Download or read book The Spiral Road written by Huang Shu-min and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading Party cadre of Lin Village in Southeast China describes in this book forty years of turbulent events that affected individuals and families in the village: the downfall of the landlords during the Land Reform, the rise of poor peasants to political power, the political fanaticism of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and recent efforts to restore rational, pragmatic policies in China's countryside.The magnitude of change in Lin Village since 1949 has been considerable. Most villagers have benefited from tangible improvements in agriculture, education, and medicine, and they have developed a sense of political participation and integration into the national political arena. Significantly, while these dynamic changes have been taking place, the observance of cultural tradition has persisted. Attempts made by the government to change "feudalistic" beliefs and practices have yet to make any lasting impression on village life.More than an account of one village, this book documents for readers the cataclysmic changes of China's entire post-liberation era, detailing their effects in a personalized style. An American anthropologist of Chinese descent, Huang Shu-min employs participant-observation and personal interviews to shape this unique view of rural China today and to delineate some of the misconceptions held by Western academics.
Download or read book Struggling For Survival written by Gary Ruchwarger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on class and gender and on a state farm. It offers a partial analysis of some of the social processes underway on a Nicaraguan state farm. The book argues that women's family roles cannot be ignored in an analysis of gender relations on the state farm.
Download or read book Landowner Compensation in Papua New Guinea s Mining and Petroleum Sectors written by Colin Filer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reflections on Violence in Melanesia written by Sinclair Dinnen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Violence in Melanesia Workshop, Canberra, 11-12 December 1997 was organized by the Australian National University's State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project.
Download or read book Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia written by John Connell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of papers reviewing the relations between Indigenous peoples and the mining industry; examples from Australia, New Guinea, Fiji, Sulewisi, New Zealand; papers by Richard Howitt, Michael Dillon and Robert Levitus annotated separately.
Download or read book The Ok Tedi Settlement written by Glenn Banks and published by Asia Pacific Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oktedi settlement: issue, outcomes and amplications: National Centre for Development Studies (NCDS Pacific Policy Paper 27)
Download or read book Land Conflicts in Southeast Asia written by Catherine J. Iorns Magallanes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Geography written by Peter Haggett and published by Cavendish Square. This book was released on 2002 with total page 3456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents profiles of countries from around the world, with information on such topics as historical events, the environment, physical geography, habitats, animal and plant life, agriculture, the economy, culture, governments, and industries.
Download or read book The Tasaday Controversy written by Thomas N. Headland and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
