From land to mouth
Subtitle: the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands
By: Paul Sillitoe
Series: Yale agrarian studies series; Yale agrarian studies
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 575
ISBN-13: 9780300142266
Other titles: Agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The agricultural economy; title: Economics and the self-interested individual; title: Community and the other-interested individual; title: Land tenure and the collective-interests individual; title: Selection of cultivation sites and individual choice; title: The land issue: scarce resource?; title: The population issue: too many people?; title: Pioneering gardens: men's labor; title: Cultivating gardens: women's labor; title: The labor question: scarcity of time?; title: Exchange: taro gardens; title: The exchange economy?; title: No economy, no development?