RESEARCH NOTES: Landowners at Marengo and Ramu Nickel (Dr. Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi)

On 14 July 2008 at the National Research Institute (Port Moresby)
at 10:00 a.m. Dr. Laura  Zimmer-Tamakoshi (former MIG chair) will
be discussing her recent work at the Marengo mining prospect
(95 kilometres south west of Madang) and how landowners there are
connected to landowners at Ramu Nickel (mostly one and the same!).
Both the Marengo and Ramu Nickel prospects are in the Gende people's
home territory in southern Madang Province. Laura has carried out most
of her ethnographic research with the Gende since 1982, her focus
being social and political aspects of economic change (or not) and
the Gende's long involvement with the global economy. Since Laura
has just completed a large survey/census in a number of Gende villages,
her "talk" will be more discussion than formal presentation. Laura is
a research affiliate with both the National Research Institute and
Bryn Mawr College. Her most recent publication is "Its not about women only"
in Pulling the Right Threads (edited by Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi and
Jeanette Dickerson-Putman).

Laura will send an update after she discusses her research at NRI

For further information see:

• Marengo Mining Company Website
• Report on Minesite.com (Informed comment and independent mining news)
  
• Interview with the chief executive officer of Marengo Mining on ABC radio (12 Sept. 2007)