Stepping Stones Across the Lihir Islands: Developing Cultural Heritage Management in the Context of a Gold-Mining Operation

摘要: Large-scale resource extraction projects often create obstacles for the protection, maintenance, and inheritance of indigenous cultural heritage. In this article we detail some challenges opportunities arising from our collaborative partnership with community Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea, which is seeking to establish, inform, a formal heritage management program context large-scale gold-mining operation. The general approach venture involves application specific development tool, Stepping Stones Cultural Heritage program. This consultative process innovative both Melanesia extraction, but also more generally within field We describe outcomes initial pilot projects, one was based on recording traditional Lihirian songs. argue that while mine places greater pressure upon heritage, it presents Lihirians opportunity realize vision their future beyond reach many other communities.