Ipili Bibliography

This aims to be a comprehensive bibliography of writing about the Ipili speaking peoples of the Porgera and Paiela valleys of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. It is a modified and updated version of the bibliography that appears in Papuan Borderlands that was originally made by Aletta Biersack. This version was first published on the web on 7 January 2002 by Alex Golub and was *last updated 3 September 2006*. Jerry Jacka helped by suggesting items that were not previously included. If you have any recommendations or updates, please leave a comment in the field provided at the end of this bibliography.

*UNPUBLISHED DISSERTATIONS AND THESES*

Banks, Glenn. 1997. Mountain of Desire: Mining Company and Indigenous Community at the Porgera Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea. Geography Ph.D. diss., The Australian National University.

Biersack, Aletta. 1980. The Hidden God: Communication, Cosmology, and cybernetics amond a Melanesian People. Anthropology Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan.

Borchard, Terrence. 1991. Discourse Level Functional Equivalents Translation. Linguistics (?) diss., Fuller Theological Seminary.

Gibbs, Philip. 1975. Ipili Religion Past and Present: An Account of the Traditional Religion of the Porgera and Paiela Valleys of Papua New Guinea and How it Has Changed with the Coming of the European and Christianity. Anthropology Graduate Diploma Thesis, University of Sydney.

Gibbs, Philip. 1978. Kaunala Tape: Towards a Theological Reflection on a New Guinea Initiation Myth. M.A. Thesis, Catholic Theological Union.

Golub, Alex. 2006. Making the Ipili Feasible: Imagining Local and Global Actors at the Porgera Gold Mine, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. Anthropology Ph.D. University of Chicago

Imbun, Benedict. 1998. Industrial Employment Relations in the Papua New Guinea Mining Industry. Economics Ph.D. University of New South Wales.

Jacka, Jerry. 2003. Gold, Gold, and the Ground: Place-Based Political Ecology in a New Guinea Borderland. Anthropology Ph.D. University of Oregon.

Talepakali, Sam. 2000. Replacing the mountain: Resource revenue accessing and utilisation in Enga Province. Resource Management Graduate Diploma Thesis, Australian National University.

*PUBLISHED BOOKS PRIMARILY ABOUT THE IPILI*

Filer, Colin, ed. 1999. Dilemmas of Development: The Social and Economic Impact of the Porgera Gold Mine. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Press.

Golub, Alex. 2001. Gold Positive: A Brief History of Porgera 1930-1997. Madang: Kristen Press.

Imbun, Benedict. 1999. Industrial Employment Relations in the Papua New Guinea Mining Industry: With Special Reference to the Porgera Mine. Waigani: University of Papua New Guinea Press.

Jackson, Richard and Glenn Banks. 2002. In Search of the Serpent’s Skin: The Story of the Porgera Gold Project. Port Moresby, PNG: Placer Niugini Ltd.

*PUBLISHED BOOKS WITH A FOCUS ON THE IPILI*

Barnard, Leonard. 1969. Banish the Night: Fighting Kur, Timango, and other Devils in New Guinea. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press.

Biersack, Aletta, ed. 1995. Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Gammage, Bill. 1998. The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea, 1938-1939. Carlton South, Victoria: Melbourne University Press.

Ryan, Peter. 1991. Black Bonanza: A Landslide of Gold. South Yara, Victoria: Hyland House.

Were, Eric. 1968. Perilous Paradise: Photo Story of New Guinea and its Emerging People. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing.

*ACADEMIC ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES RELATING TO THE IPILI*

Banks, Glen. 1996. Compensation for Mining: Benefit or Time-bomb? The Porgera Gold Mine. In Resources, Nations, and Indigenous Peoples: Case Studies from Australasia, Melanesian and South East Asia. Richard Howwit, John Connel, and Philip Hirsch, ed. page ??

Biersack, Aletta. 1982. Ginger Gardens for the Ginger Woman: Rites and Passages in a Melanesian Society. Man, n.s. 17:239-58.

Biersack, Aletta. 1982. The Logic of Misplaced Concreteness. American Anthropologist 84:811-29.

Biersack, Aletta. 1982. “To Die Laughing”: Paiela Games and the Organization of Behavior as Communication. In Paradoxes of Play, ed. J. Loy, 180-187. West Point, New York: Leisure Press.

Biersack, Aletta. 1983. Bound Blood: Paiela “Conception” Theory Interpreted. Mankind 14:85-100.

Biersack, Aletta. 1984. Paiela “Women-Men”: The Reflexive Foundations of Gender Ideology. American Ethnologist 11:118-38.

Biersack, Aletta. 1987. Moonlight: Negative Images of Transcendence in Paiela Pollution. Oceania 57:178-94.

Biersack, Aletta. 1990. Histories in the Making: Paiela and Historical Anthropology. History and Anthropology 5:63-85.

Biersack, Aletta. 1991. Prisoners of Time: Millenarian Praxis in a Melanesian Valley. In Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology, ed. A. Biersack, 231-96. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press.

Biersack, Aletta. 1995. Heterosexual Meanings: Society, Ecinomy, and Gender among Ipilis. In Papuan Borderlands, A. Biersack ed, 231-263. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Biersack, Aletta. 1996. Making Kinship: Marriage, Warfare, and Networks among Paielas. In Work in Progress: Essays in New Guinea Highlands Ethnography in Honour of Paula Brown Glick, eds. H. LeVine and A. Ploeg. P. 19-42.

Biersack, Aletta. 1996. The Word Made Flesh: Religion, the Body, and the Economy in the Paiela World. History of Religion 36:85-111.

Biersack, Aletta. 1998. Spirit and Regeneration among Ipilis: The View from Tipinini. In Fluid Ontologies: Myth, Ritual, and Philosophy in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Goldman and Ballard, eds, 43-66. Westport,CT: Greenwood Press.

Biersack, Aletta. 1998. Horticulture and Hierarchy: The Youthful Beautification of the Body in the Paiela and Porgera Valleys. In Adolesence in the Pacific Island Societies. Herdt and Leavitt, eds, 71-91. ASAO Monograph Series. Pitssburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Biersack, Aletta. 1999. The Mount Kare Python and His Gold: Totemism and Ecology in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. American Anthropologist 101:68-87.

Biersack, Aletta. 2004. The Bachelors and Their Spirit Wife: Interpreting the _Omatisia_ Ritual of Porgera and Paiela. In Women as Unseen Characters: Male Ritual in Papua New Guinea. Pascale Bonnemere, ed, 98-119. Philadelpha: University of Philadelphia Press.

Biersack, Aletta. 2005. On the Life and Times of the Ipili Imagination. In The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation, and the Nature of Culture Change. Robbins and Wardlow, eds, 135-162. Gateshead, Tyne and Wear: Ashgate Publishing.

Gibbs, Philip. 1977. The Cult from Lyeimi and the Ipili. Oceania 48:1-25.

Gibbs, Philip. 1978. The Kepele Ritual of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Anthropos 73:434-448.

Imbun, Benedict. 2000. Mining workers or ‘opportunist’ tribesmen? A tribal workforce in a Papua New Guinea Mine. Oceania 71, 129-149.

Ingemann, Frances. 1986. The Linguistic Strucutre of an Ipili-Paiyala Song Type. Proceedings of the VIIth International Congress of Anthropologica and Ethnological Sciences, Tokyo. Vol. 2, Ethnology, 398-400. Tokyo: National Science Culture of Japan.

Jacka, Jerry. 2001. Coca-Cola and Kolo: Land, Ancestors, and Development. Anthropology Today 17:3-8.

Jacka, Jerry. 2001. On the Outside Looking In: Non-Landowner Attitudes and Responses of Non-Landowners toward Mining at Porgera. In Mining in Papua New Guinea: Analysis and Policy Implications. B. Imbun and P. McGavin, ed. Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea Press, pp. 45-62.

Jacka, Jerry. 2002. Cults and Christianity Among the Enga and Ipili. Oceania 72:196-214.

Jacka, Jerry. 2005. Emplacement and Millennial Expectations in an Era of Development and Globalization: Heaven and the Appeal of Christianity for the Ipili. American Anthropologist 107(4): 643-653.

Jacka, Jerry. 2005. “‘Our Skins are Weak’: Ipili Modernity and the Demise of Discipline,” in Embodying Modernity and Postmodernity: Ritual, Praxis, and Social Change in Melanesia, pp. 39-67. S. Bamford, ed. Durham: Carolina Academic Press.

Meggitt, Mervyn. 1957. The Ipili of the Porgera Valley, Western Highlands District, Territory of New Guinea. Oceania 28:31-55.

Meggitt, Mervyn. 1973.The Sun and the Shakers: A Millenarian Cult and its Transformations in the New Guinea Highlands, part one. Oceania 44(1):1-37.

Meggitt, Mervyn. 1974. The Sun and Shakers: a Millenarian Cult and its Transformations in the New Guinea Highlands, part two. Oceania 44(2):109-126

Talepakali, Sam. 2000. Replacing the mountain: Resource revenue accessing and utilisation in Enga Province. Development Bulletin.