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Dreams, Gender, and Artisanal Mining in Papua New Guinea

By Dan Moretti

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Dreams, Gender, and Artisanal Mining in Papua New Guinea

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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 oneiric 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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
316
Release Date:
2025-10-01
Publication Date:
2025-10-01
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1836951760
ISBN13:
9781836951766
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
610 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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