From land to mouth : the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands /

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Paul Sillitoe offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalistic economy with the subsistence-cum-exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sillitoe, Paul, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2010]
Colección:Yale agrarian studies.
Temas:
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Papua New Guinea.
Wola (Papua New Guinean people) > Economic conditions.
Agriculture > Aspect économique > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Wola (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Conditions économiques.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Agriculture > Economic aspects
Papua New Guinea
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The agricultural economy
  • Economics and the self-interested individual
  • Community and the other-interested individual
  • Land tenure and the collective-interests individual
  • Selection of cultivation sites and individual choice
  • The land issue : scarce resource?
  • The population issue : too many people?
  • Pioneering gardens : men's labor
  • Cultivating gardens : women's labor
  • The labor question : scarcity of time?
  • Exchange : taro gardens
  • The exchange economy?
  • No economy, no development?

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