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Social change --- Papua New Guinea

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The Porgera gold mine in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea is technically one of the most sophisticated and successful mines of recent times. In its second year of operations (1992) it was the third largest gold producing mine in the world. Socially, though, the mine has brought a range of massive changes for the local Ipili community-both positive and negative. Dilemmas of Development is a record of a series of studies of the social and economic effects of the Porgerta mine, commissioned by the Porgera Joint Vemture (PJV).

Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Gold miners --- Gold industry --- Porgera (Papua New Guinea) --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Gold prospectors --- Prospectors, Gold --- Nonferrous metal industries --- Miners --- resources --- papua new guinea --- development --- mining --- Ipili language --- Kiwai --- Pakistan --- Porgera Gold Mine

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The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of 'saltwater people' in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans' predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what

Ethnology --- Matrilineal kinship --- Sex role --- Bougainville Island Region (Papua New Guinea) --- Social life and customs. --- History --- Autonomy and independence movements.