Skip Nav Destination
New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
Alchemy in the Rain Forest: Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area
Duke University Press
Copyright:
This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7501-2
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
People: Wandakali
-
Published:October 2015
This chapter examines the interrelations between human production and the biophysical environment to illustrate how Porgerans conceive of human agency as essential for producing nature and society through work and exchange. This chapter also demonstrates the ways that Porgerans work to create social groups that ensure flexibility in terms of group composition and land-tenure dynamics. A critical aspect of Porgeran social organization is the expectation that people will live and interact with as many of their social groups as they can. In a cognatic society like Porgera, the number of potential kin groups for any one individual is quite large....
This content is only available as PDF.
You do not currently have access to this chapter.
Advertisement