From land to mouth [electronic resource] : the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands / Paul Sillitoe.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Yale agrarian studiesPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.Description: xx, 575 pOther title:
  • Agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 338.1089/9912 22
LOC classification:
  • HD2196.5 .S55 2010eb
Online resources:
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?.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-559) and index.

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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