BIBFRAME Work

Title

Gardens of gold

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Place-making in Papua New Guinea

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Halvaksz, Jamon Alex (author)

Subject

• Civilization (FAST)
• Identité collective--Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée (RVM)
• Group identity (FAST)
• Papua New Guinea (FAST)
• Papua New Guinea--Civilization (LCSH)
• Group identity--Papua New Guinea (LCSH)
• Ethnologie--Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée (RVM)
• Or--Mines et extraction--Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée (RVM)
• Indigenous peoples (FAST)
• Nature conservation (FAST)
• Human ecology (FAST)
• Gold mines and mining (FAST)
• Nature--Conservation--Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée (RVM)
• Ethnology (FAST)
• Ethnology--Papua New Guinea (LCSH)
• Gold mines and mining--Papua New Guinea (LCSH)
• Indigenous peoples--Papua New Guinea (LCSH)
• Écologie humaine--Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée (RVM)
• Human ecology--Papua New Guinea (LCSH)
• Nature conservation--Papua New Guinea (LCSH)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• illustrations
• maps

Classification

• LCC: DU740.42 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 306.0899912

Content

• cartographic image
• text
• still image

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

Since 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 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 social reproduction of a community and the relationship between place and person. Drawing 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 - is what 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, Gardens of Gold contributes to our understanding of how neoliberal economic practices intervene in place-based economies and identities."--taken from back cover.

Table of Contents

Above the Alluvial Flats -- Mining Nature -- Grounding Kinship -- Working the Land -- Becoming Conservationists -- Becoming a Mining Community -- Whose Closure? -- Belonging.

Authorized Access Point

Halvaksz, Jamon Alex. Gardens of gold

Geographic Coverage

• Papua New Guinea

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:14:25.605464+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23975154

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc