From land to mouth : the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands

Publication Data

• Title From land to mouth : the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands
• Alternative Title Agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands
• Author Paul Sillitoe
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location New Haven, Conn.
• Language English

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?

Topics

• Agriculture :: Economic aspects :: Papua New Guinea
• Wola (Papua New Guinean people) :: Economic conditions

From land to mouth : the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands by Paul Sillitoe. ISBN 9780300142266. Published by Yale University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.