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

Main Author: Sillitoe, Paul, 1949-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
Series:Yale agrarian studies series
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10579405
Table of 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?.