From land to mouth the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands / [electronic resource] :
Agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands
Paul Sillitoe.
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
- xx, 575 p.
- Yale agrarian studies series .
- Yale agrarian studies. .
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?.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780300162950 (electronic bk.)
Agriculture--Economic aspects--Papua New Guinea. Wola (Papua New Guinean people)--Economic conditions.