Pacific Affairs· 2026Q1
Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier
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Ethnographic fieldwork over two decades reveals how the Mengen people in Papua New Guinea's East New Britain Province navigate resource extraction, producing places, relations, and value amidst external pressures.
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- The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over nearly two decades among the Mengen people in Papua New Guinea's East New Britain Province.
- It critically accounts for how the Mengen people produce places, relations, and value.
- The research explores the dynamics of resource extraction and its impact on local communities.
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Hard Work, Tuomas Tammisto’s critical account of the Mengen people, is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province over nearly two decades. The resourc...
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Field: Anthropology
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