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From land to mouth : the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of th e New Guinea highlands / Paul Sillitoe.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Yale agrarian studies seriesPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.Description: xx, 575 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780300142266
Other title:
  • Agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.1089 23
Contents:
The agricultural economy -- Economics and the self-interested indivi dual -- Community and the other-interested individual -- Land tenure an d the collective-interests individual -- Selection of cultivation sites and individual choice -- The land issue : scarce resource? -- The popu lation 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 econom y, no development?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-559) and index.

The agricultural economy -- Economics and the self-interested indivi dual -- Community and the other-interested individual -- Land tenure an d the collective-interests individual -- Selection of cultivation sites and individual choice -- The land issue : scarce resource? -- The popu lation 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 econom y, no development?

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