Jacka, Jerry K.,  1966- <br/><br/>
Alchemy in the rain forest :  politics, ecology, and resilience in a New Guinea mining area / 
Jerry K. Jacka. 
 - Durham :  Duke University Press,  2015. 
 - xii, 283 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  23 cm. 
 - New ecologies for the twenty-first century .
 - New ecologies for the twenty-first century. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index. 
<br/><br/>Resource frontiers in the montane tropics -- Colonialism, mining, and missionization -- Land: Yu -- People: Wandakali -- Spirits: Yama -- Ecological perturbations and human responses -- Social dislocations: work, antiwork, and highway life -- Conclusion : development, resilience, and the end of the land. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822360117 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--Porgera.<br/>Gold mines and mining--Social aspects--Papua New Guinea--Porgera.<br/>Gold mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Papua New Guinea--Porgera.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Porgera (Papua New Guinea)--Social conditions--21st century.<br/>Porgera (Papua New Guinea)--Environmental conditions--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>995.6305 JAC