Dreams, Gender, and Artisanal Mining in Papua New Guinea

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes on Text
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: The Ethno-Historical and Theoretical Context

Chapter 1. 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