From land to mouth : the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of th e New Guinea highlands - Sillitoe, Paul, 1949- (New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2010)
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?
Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-559) and index.
Keywords: Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Papua New Guinea; Wola (Papua New Guinean people) -- Economic conditions