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

By: Sillitoe, Paul, 1949-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Yale agrarian studiesPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010Description: xx, 575 pISBN: 9780300162950 (electronic bk.)Other title: Agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlandsSubject(s): Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Papua New Guinea | Wola (Papua New Guinean people) -- Economic conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 338.1089/9912 LOC classification: HD2196.5 | .S55 2010Online resources: Click to View
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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