Böcker av James F. Weiner

Provides an insight into the effects of mining and other forms of resource extraction upon the indigenous peoples of Australia and Papua New Guinea. The text offers a focus on indigenous cosmologies and their articulation or disjunction with the forces of "development", based on fieldwork with the people concerned,

This text provides a theoretical experiment in anthropology and an analysis of myth and ritual in Papua New Guinea societies. Fashioning an anthropological method from psychoanalytic theories, it uncovers a discourse on sexuality, consumption, voice and subjectivity.