Keeping the Network out of view: Mining, Distinctions and Exclusion in Melanesia.

This paper examines the 'property effects' surrounding competition over access to mining benefits in Papua New Guinea. Under conditions of rapid social change engendered by large scale resource extraction, Lihirian islanders have increasingly recalibrated their social networks, manifest through shif...

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Published in:	Oceania Vol. 79; no. 1; pp. 18 - 34
Main Author:	Bainton, Nicholas A.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Mar2009
Subjects:	Mineral industries Social networks Social history Identity (Psychology) Inconsistency (Logic) Papua New Guinea Melanesia
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost