Global Capital, Local Understandings: Changing Ecologies of Knowledge in Response to a Major Resource Extraction Project in Papua New Guinea

Imagining the city in remote Papua New Guinea: Relational and categorical modes of ‘belonging’

M Minnegal, PD Dwyer

2024-10-01

‘Nation’ and ‘City’ are exemplars of much more general phenomena – categorical identities (language group, province) and the centr..

A Road, a Border, and Development in New Guinea

Peter D Dwyer, Monica Minnegal

2023-01-01

A road being built in north-western Western Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG), addresses local desires for mobility, for developmen..

The Beharell Patrol of 1938: The First Government Patrol Across the Land of Kubo People (Nomad District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea)

M Minnegal, PD Dwyer

2023-01-01

In 1938, John S. Beharell led the first colonial government patrol into the then ‘uncontrolled’ land of Kubo people east of the St..

Policy and the Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas pipeline

Peter D Dwyer, Monica Minnegal

2022-12-07

Pipelines constructed to carry oil or gas often cross the lands of people who find themselves low on the list of potential benefic..

The Broker: Inequality, Loss and the PNG LNG Project

Monica Minnegal, Peter Dwyer

2022-01-01

In this chapter, we trace processes and consequences associated with one man’s ventures into those new worlds, and the shifting mo..

On Reading Patrol Reports – 1: South of the Blucher Range

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

2020-01-01

Reports of patrols through remote areas of Papua and New Guinea led by officers of the Australian administration have much to cont..

On Reading Patrol Reports – 2: Travels in East Awin

M Minnegal, PD Dwyer

2020-01-01

Reports of patrols through remote areas of Papua and New Guinea led by officers of the Australian administration must be read with..

On Reading Patrol Reports – 3: Burnett River People

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

2020-01-01

Pre-independence patrols through remote areas of Papua and New Guinea were concerned both with mapping land and with identifying a..

Landowner identification in PNG: a job for government

Monica Minnegal, Peter D Dwyer

2019-01-01

From business development to protection money: landowners and the PNG LNG project

M Minnegal, Michael Main, Peter D Dwyer

2018-07-04

Captain everill’s error: Mapping the upper strickland river in papua and New Guinea, 1885–1979

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

2018-07-03

An error dating from 1885 in mapping the upper Strickland River, Papua New Guinea, was reinforced and extended by government offic..

"We Are Fire Clan': Groups, Names and Identity in Papua New Guinea

Peter D Dwyer, Monica Minnegal

2018-03-01

This paper draws on two case studies concerning Kubo and Febi people of Western Province, Papua New Guinea, to reveal, first, ways..

Episode #11: Monica Minnegal and Victoria Stead

M Minnegal

2018-01-01

Seeing like an anthropologist

M Minnegal

2018-01-01

Navigating the Future: An Ethnography of Change in Papua New Guinea

M MINNEGAL, PD Dwyer

2017-01-01

'Navigating the Future' draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with Kubo people and their neighbours, in a remote area of Papua..

Counting systems of the Strickland-Bosavi languages, Papua New Guinea

PD Dwyer, M MINNEGAL

2016-03-15

Information on the counting systems of 12 East Strickland and Bosavi languages is collated. In seven cases the body‐part tally sys..

Reshaping the Social: A Comparison of Fasu and Kubo-Febi Approaches to Incorporating Land Groups

Monica Minnegal, Sandrine Lefort, Peter D Dwyer

2015-10-20

In Papua New Guinea, local communities increasingly strive to render themselves ‘visible’ to the state as entities entitled to con..

Anticipating change in Papua New Guinea

M Minnegal

2015-01-01

The forgotten expedition -1885: The Strickland River, Papua New Guinea

M MINNEGAL, PD DWYER

2015-01-01

Where all the rivers flow west: Maps, abstraction and change in the Papua New Guinea lowlands

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

2014-01-01

'Abstraction' has been often identified as a key element in social change. Analyses, however, have often conflated the ideas of ab..