Writings
Here is a sampling of things that I’ve written in the past few years:
.:Academic:.
From Agency to Agents: Forging Landowner Identities in Porgera
From Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives ed. James Weiner and Katie Glaskin. pp. 73-96. Canberra: ANU E-Press. 2007.
PDF
Ironies of Organization: Landowners, Land Registration, and Papua New Guinea’s Mining and Petroleum Industry
From Human Organization 66(1): 38-48. 2007. These are galley proofs.
PDF
With a Business Model Like This, Who Needs Enemies?
From Anthropology News 48(4):6-7. 2007.
PDF
Who Is The “Original Affluent Society”? Ipili “Predatory Expansion” and the Porgera Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea
From Contemporary Pacific 18(2):265-292. 2006. These are uncorrected page proofs — please purchase the journal to get the final official version.
PDF
Making the Ipili Feasible: Imagining Global and Local Actors at the Porgera Gold Mine, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
This is my dissertation, completed as part of the requirements for a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Chicago in 2005/6.
precis
AnthroSource: Actually Useful?
A prize-winning (ok, it was the second place prize) essay on AnthroSource.
PDF | HTML
Copyright and Taboo
This is a short article that appeared in Anthropological Quarterly 77(3): 521-530 in 2005.
PDF
Shooting Snowy Was The Toughest Job I Ever Had
This is a paper I gave at a conference in honor of my undergraduate advisor, Gail Kelly.
PDF
.:Popular:.
Interview with BCM
This is a piece of music journalism that I did for the website Gapers Block, of which I am proud to say I was a founding member.
HTML
*Inside Higher Ed Pieces*
I write ‘viewpoint’ pieces for Inside Higher Ed. Here are some samples:
Jewish in Polynesia
Passion for Paper
The Professor as Personal Trainer
hi,
when will “making the ipili feasible…” be available. i really like the precis and would need the full thing for my doctoral disseration. i’m writing about csr and the porgera goldmine and of course the ipili. btw. i’m really excited for the bibliography you provide on the ipili. ah ja – cool picture of you: wanpela mangi blong hailands – tru tru.
lukim yu.
I want to recieve news about medical anthropology, and I lecture public health faculty at Airlangga University in surabaya indonesia, thank you for your attention
Alex,
I appreciate the book you wrote about the Porgera Gold history. Well done brother. I will definately keep a copy for my kids. Thanks.
Alex
I work for an engineering company in POM, who is currently doing some work for PJV.
Last time I was up there (Feb 07) I purchased a copy of your book “Gold Positive”.
I’ve subsequently read it and enjoyed the content.
There’s a number of pictures in the book, which through the printing process are unviewable – the consist of just black ink.
You wouldn’t have electronic copies of them you could send me by email, would you?
Cheers
Rod
Alex, Where is Gold Positive? I am sure that I saw it on your web site when you and I looked in Porgera. Also- am still having trouble downloading your dissertation. Could you e-mail it to me. Actually both of them. I will be very interested in your analysis of the Yakatobari negotiations. Good to talk to you- pity time pressure got the better of us. I hope that we have the opportunity in the future.
Roland
Roland — Gold +VE is in the works and will be coming soon.
Alex,
Greetings from Porgera. I will look forward to it- in the mean time I have found some of your other pieces very stimulating.
Hi Mr. Golub,
I’m writing because I’ve read a few things on Golublog and also things by you at Savage Minds, and thought you and your readers might be interested in a new archaeology blog out of UCLA (which I’m working on). Undergrads are going on study-abroad field digs and doing surveys and excavations all over the world, working with locals, then sending back their impressions to the blog at http://www.magazine.ucla.edu/summerdigs. Apologies for putting this in the comment section, but I didn’t see an e-mail address for you. Hope you’ll visit!
Thanks,
Alison
Hi Alex,
I’m currently researching the history of health management in the Porgera valley as a part of a PhD thesis on mining health management systems in Papua New Guinea. Does Gold Positive talk about health services at all? If so, could I get a copy?
Thanks!
Mathew
Hi Alex,
I work on questions of indigeneity in East Asia. I was wondering if you could either post or email me a copy of your paper,
“Why There Are No Indigenous People In Papua New Guinea (So Far)?”
Thanks, Michael
Hi Alex, would love to read your Ironies of Organization piece, but the link appears to be broken…? Cheers, Nick
Hi Alex,
Thanks to you, i know my people well better now.
cheers!