From land to mouth : the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands / Paul Sillitoe
- Bib ID:
- 5015173
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Sillitoe, Paul, 1949-
- Description:
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- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010
- xx, 575 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + 1CD-ROM.
- ISBN:
- 9780300142266
- Series:
- Yale agrarian studies.
- Full contents:
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- 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?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands
- Copyright:
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