Who is the "original affluent society"? Ipili "predatory expansion" and the Porgera gold mine, Papua New Guinea

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 265-292

  Golub, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Affluent society; Consumerism; Enga; Mining; Papua New Guinea; Porgera; Utopia

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GOLD MINE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PORGERA;

EID: 33748328057     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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