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

Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2010] ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 575 pages) : illustrations, maps 1 online resource (1 videodisc (DVD)) : sound, color Series Yale agrarian studies series Yale agrarian studies. Contents 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? Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references pages 529-559) and index Notes Print version record Subject Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Papua New Guinea Wola (Papua New Guinean people) -- Economic conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Agriculture -- Economic aspects Papua New Guinea Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300162950 0300162952

Other Titles Agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands

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