Closing the Frontier, Opening Doors Local Cash Crop Production, Large-Scale Resource Extraction, and Shifting Resource Frontiers in Pomio, Papua New Guinea

Closing the Frontier, Opening Doors Local Cash Crop Production, Large-Scale Resource Extraction, and Shifting Resource Frontiers in Pomio, Papua New Guinea

In this article I examine a recent communal cocoa planting project in a Wide Bay Mengen community in East Pomio, Papua New Guinea in relation to histories of resource extraction. I discuss how the community members modeled the current planting of cocoa in accordance with earlier forms of agriculture...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tuomas Tammisto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Suomen Antropologinen Seura (Finnish Anthropological Society) 2021-11-01
Series:Suomen Antropologi
Subjects:
cocoa
commodification
frontier
infrastructure
natural resources
oil palm
papua new guinea
place
territorialization
Online Access:https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/112436

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