The dialectics of negation and negotiation in the anthropology of mineral resource development in Papua New Guinea

doi:10.4324/9780203427057-13

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The dialectics of negation and negotiation in the anthropology of mineral resource development in Papua New Guinea

ABSTRACT

This multilocal form of ethnographic inquiry is one which may, amongst other things, serve to locate a variety of communities or stakeholders in the ‘social grounds that produce a discourse of policy’ (ibid.: 100).