Married to Gold: Dreams, Gender and Value Among New Guinean Artisanal Miners

Dreams, Gender, and Artisanal Mining in Papua New Guinea uses dreams to explore the value of gold in a multigenerational community of New Guinean migrant miners. It broadens research on Melanesian mining ontologies and women’s role in mining. It explores how women creatively use dreams to challenge hegemonic masculine discourses that exclude them from accessing mineral wealth.

Dan Moretti was British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge (2007-2010). Since 2007, he has consulted on projects related to artisanal and small-scale mining in Laos and Papua New Guinea.