Nkota Wata : mining and metaphor in Hamtai-Anga "Gold Dreaming"

This work examines a series of mining-related dream narratives as a means of gauging how a community of New Guinean artisanal and small-scale gold miners understands the nature of minerals and their place in the cosmos, and how this cosmological outlook informs the ways they operate qua resource ext...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moretti, Daniele
Other Authors: Hirsch, E.
Published: Brunel University 2006
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436518