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For the Mengen of Papua New Guinea, ‘hard work’ does not refer to drudgery or physically exhausting labour. Instead, ‘work’ involves creating and recreating meaningful social relations and generating value through acts of care, marriages, ceremonial events, sharing, and working the land together. Similarly, all activities that produce valued people, places, and relations are hard work. This book is a study of human-environmental relations, value production, natural resource extraction, and state formation. It examines these themes by looking at how the Mengen relate to each other, their lived environment, and outside actors.
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