{"product_id":"gardens-of-gold-place-making-in-papua-new-guinea-paperback","title":"Gardens of Gold: Place-Making in Papua New Guinea - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJamon Alex Halvaksz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eK. Sivaramakrishnan\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eK. Sivaramakrishnan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the start of colonial gold mining in the early 1920s, the Biangai villagers of Elauru and Winima in Papua New Guinea have moved away from planting yams and other subsistence foods to instead cultivating coffee and other cash crops and dishing for tradable flakes of gold. Decades of industrial gold mining, land development, conservation efforts, and biological research have wrought transformations in the landscape and entwined traditional Biangai gardening practices with Western capital, disrupting the relationship between place and person and the social reproduction of a community. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from extensive ethnographic research, Jamon Halvaksz examines the role of place in informing indigenous relationships with conservation and development. How do Biangai make meaning with the physical world? Collapsing Western distinctions between self and an earthly other, Halvaksz shows us it is a sense of place--grounded in productive relationships between nature and culture--that connects Biangai to one another as \"placepersons\" and enables them to navigate global forces amid changing local and regional economies. Centering local responses along the frontiers of resource extraction, \u003ci\u003eGardens of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to our understanding of how neoliberal economic practices intervene in place-based economies and identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamon Alex Halvaksz is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas, San Antonio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 242\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51790663319840,"sku":"9780295747590","price":59.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0c04712249d0d93021eb3d03b308a606.webp?v=1780682525","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/gardens-of-gold-place-making-in-papua-new-guinea-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}