Figure 1: Map of PNG highlighting study area (see Figure 2). identifying the customary landowners of mine sites, to whom royalties would be delivered. oursue a path to development and modernization based on non-renewable resource Figure 2: Mount Fubilan and the Fly River in Western Province, PNG. Map courtesy of Emma Gilberthorpe. By 1984, large scale copper and gold production had begun at the Ok Tedi mine on Mount The Ok Tedi mine is of central importance to the economy of PNG, contributing at times Figure 5: Leaf of the taro (Colocasia L. spp. [Araceae]), the food of the Mountain Ok as prescribed by Afek. Photograph by Paul Gilbert. data and analysis are presented, organized thematically into four chapters. Figure 6: Tabubil market square. Reference to HIV/AIDS was not frequent in the interviews | conducted, but where it was discussed, AIDS was associated with the ‘criminogenic’ settlements discussed above. Perhaps this reflects what Scheper-Hughes and Lock (1987) refer to as parallels in the experience of threats to the integrity of the soma and threats to the integrity of the body politic. Photograph by Paul Gilbert. Figure 7: Migalsim Old Location. Photograph by Paul Gilbert. boundaries, must therefore be investigated. '3 This view is rooted in an ideology of conception whereby male and female reproductive substances combine in equal parts to create the bone and blood of the child respectively (Barth 1987; Jorgensen 2004). education opportunities), isolates those who would formerly be considered cognatic Figure 9: Oksapmin war dance performed at Tabubil High School, on a day that was ‘all about culture.’ Cultural dances have been compulsory elements of PNG curricula since 1967 (Voi, 1994:87-8). Photograph by Paul Gilbert. development and health workers. Figure 10: The hydroelectric plant at New Migalsim. Photograph by Paul Gilbert. for development are locally constructed.