Golublog: An Anthropology Blog

It is one of the ironies of academic publication in the age of the internet that tracking down full citations for one’s bibliography inevitable turns up 12 bintillion more things you should have read before you wrote the damn thing in the first place. Most recently this includes a very nice looking volume entitled “Tunnel Vision”:http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A//www.oxfam.org.au/campaigns/mining/women/tunnelvisionreport.pdf&ei=d7EKQ83eA5Lsadzy_ZwO (get it? ‘Tunnel’ vision?! Hardy har har) put out by Oxfam that has brief articles by many of The Usual Suspects. Yeah well-written free-as-in-speech stuff on the internet!

The article is tentatively (and arbitrarily) entitled “Ironies of the Anticommons: Landowners, Land Registration, and Papua New Guinea’s Mining and Petroleum Industry”. I think it is a pretty ‘major’ statement of what I’ve been up to intellectually and I’m happy with it overall, although I’m keenly aware that the more ‘major’ something is the greater your chances of failing or generalizing in a way that makes you look like a big dummy. At any rate given the way things go in academia, it should appear in 2046. I’ll keep you posted.