Revealing the Invisible Mine

Emilia Skrzypek is a social anthropologist based at the University of St Andrews. Her research to date has largely focused on Papua New Guinea where she works on issues related to broadly conceived resource relations and interdependencies.

• List of Illustration, Figures, Maps and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on TextIntroductionChapter 1. Role PlayChapter 2. Making up PaiyamoChapter 3. Make-BelieveChapter 4. The Book of PaiyamoChapter 5. Precipitating the MineConclusionReferencesIndex

“There is really nothing quite like Skrzypek’s volume in print... Skrzypek has done an impressive job of bringing [her ideas] together in a rich ethnographic context.” • Dan Jorgensen, Western University“This is an outstanding ethnography. It fills a major gap in the literature and our understanding of the deep social and cultural changes that occur as local communities anticipate large-scale resource extraction on their lands. A must read or anyone who wants to make sense of transformations that arise after mining actually begins.” • Nick Bainton, The University of Queensland