Up to 200,000 Melanesian men, women, and children work as artisanal miners, yet their lifeworlds are seriously under-researched. This ethnography of a multigenerational community of migrant miners in Papua New Guinea shows that dreaming mediates how they experience and manage gold mining. Men argue that they alone can mine successfully by forming dream marriage bonds with the spirits of the land. Women draw on their own dream experience to challenge this, asserting their equal capacity to marry spirits and their right to mine. For women and men alike, dreams provide legitimations of agency and commentaries on mutual dependencies and moral obligations in the domestic domain and between humans and nonhumans.
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Dreams, Gender, and Artisanal Mining in Papua New Guinea
An Ethnography of Value
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Text
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. The Ethno-Historical and Theoretical Context
- Chapter 1. The Golden Anga: How a Spirit-Infested Mountain Became a Colonial Resource Frontier and Then a Homeland
- Chapter 2. A Field of Dreams: Hamtai Gold Dreams and the Anthropology of Dreaming
- Part II. Analogic Dreams
- Chapter 3. Mining as Gardening
- Chapter 4. Mining as Procreation
- Chapter 5. Mining as Marriage to the Mountain Spirits
- Part III. Conjugality, Affinity and Human-Mineral Relations
- Chapter 6. On the Ambivalence of Gold, Spirits, Women and Affines
- Chapter 7. Inscriptive Work, Ritual Exchange and Conjugal-Affinal Respect in Human-Mineral Relations
- Chapter 8. Dreams, Melanesian Perspectivism and the Fractal Morality of Mining
- Part IV. Gender, Mining and Cosmic Decline
- Chapter 9. Melanesian Male Rituals, Spirit Marriage and Hegemonic Masculine Perspectives on Depleting Minerals
- Chapter 10. ‘Just Lies Men Use’: Women’s Counter-Perspectives on Gold and Complementary Visions of Masculinity
- Conclusion. Dreams, ‘Bitter Gender’ and the Value and Values of Minerals in Melanesia and Beyond
- Glossary of Mining Terms (English and Tok Pisin)
- References
- Index
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