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Author Sillitoe, Paul, 1949-

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

Imprint New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xx, 575 p.
Series Yale agrarian studies series
Yale agrarian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-559) and index.
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?.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Papua New Guinea.
Wola (Papua New Guinean people) -- Economic conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands
ISBN 9780300142266 (cloth alk. paper)
9780300162950 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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