Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New Guinea PDF
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CAPITAL AND INEQUALITY IN RURAL PAPUA NEW GUINEA CAPITAL AND INEQUALITY IN RURAL PAPUA NEW GUINEA Edited by Bettina Beer and Tobias Schwoerer ASIA-PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT MONOGRAPH 16 Published by ANU Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 2600, Australia Email: [email protected] Available to download for free at press.anu.edu.au ISBN (print): 9781760465186 ISBN (online): 9781760465193 WorldCat (print): 1331091831 WorldCat (online): 1331091830 DOI: 10.22459/CIRPNG.2022 This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. The full licence terms are available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Cover design and layout by ANU Press. Cover photograph: Wampar houses (B. Beer and T. Schwoerer). This book is published under the aegis of the Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs Editorial Board of ANU Press. This edition © 2022 ANU Press Contents Contributors vii List of Figures and Tables ix 1. Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New Guinea 1 Bettina Beer and Tobias Schwoerer 2. Plantations, Incorporated Land Groups and Emerging Inequalities Among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea 33 Tobias Schwoerer 3. Factional Competition, Legal Conflict and Emerging Organisational Stratification Around a Prospective Mine in Papua New Guinea 63 Willem Church 4. The Broker: Inequality, Loss and the PNG LNG Project 101 Monica Minnegal and Peter D. Dwyer 5. ‘Em i Stap Bilong En Yet’: Not‑Sharing, Social Inequalities and Changing Ethical Life Among Wampar 125 Bettina Beer 6. Absent Development as Cultural Economy: Resource Extraction and Enchained Inequity in Papua New Guinea 155 Bruce Knauft 7. Reflecting on Resource-Driven Inequalities 183 Glenn Banks Contributors Glenn Banks is a professor and head of the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University: Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, New Zealand. Bettina Beer is a professor and head of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Willem Church is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Peter D. Dwyer is an honorary research fellow at the University of Melbourne. Bruce Knauft is the Samuel C. Dobbs Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. Monica Minnegal is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Melbourne. Tobias Schwoerer is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. vii
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