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Pacific Affairs· 2026Q1

Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier

John Cox

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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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Field: Anthropology

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