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100	1		_aBiersack, Aletta
245	1	4	_aThe mount kare python and his gold : _btotemism and ecology in the Papua New Guinea highlands.
260			_aArlington _bAmerican Antropological Association _c1999
500			_aEn: American Anthropologist. -- Vol. 101 No. 1(marzo 1999), pp. 68-87. ISSN 00027294
520			_aLying between the Huli and Paiela peoples of the Papua New Guinea highlands, Mt. Kare, the site of a gold rush from 1988 to 1990, presently inspires millenarian speculations about an imminent cosmic revolution. Mt. Kare was traditionally a ritual site where pigs were sacrificed to Taiyundika, a totemic python, to promote the fertility of plant, animal, and human species. Today it is where gold is mined in pursuit of unprecedented riches and millenarian transformations. Although sacrifices are no longer conducted at Mt. Kare, the python still has some salience for Paielas, who consider the gold to be the flesh of the totemic python. Blending Christianity with traditional cosmology, Paielas interpret the finding of the gold as a millenarian sign. As an ancestral figure who guarantees the continuing fertility of the earth in exchange for pork sacrifices, the python stands at the core of Paiela constructions of nature and humanity's position within it. Paiela totemism is explored for what it can teach us about an indigenous symbolic ecology and how Òlocal knowledgeÓ or a Òcognized modelÓ can inflect capital-intensive resource development at a time of ostensible globalization. The ecology of Mt. Kare gold mining must be sensitive to intercultural processes and how global flows (of ideologies, technologies, and capital) are mediated by vernacular constructions.
650		4	_aMINERIA _zPAPUA NUEVA GUINEA
773	0		_tAmerican anthropologist _w024522
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