From Land to Mouth - The Agricultural 'Economy' of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands

Klappentext After 35 years of research in the New Guinea Highlands! esteemed anthropologist Paul Sillitoe offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalist economy to the subsistence-cum-exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley. This is a seminal work intent on reinstating certain core values in anthropological scholarship. Zusammenfassung Offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalist economy to the subsistence-cum-exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley.

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• Authors: Paul Sillitoe, Sillitoe Paul
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.01.2011
• EAN: 9780300142266
• ISBN: 978-0-300-14226-6
• No. of pages: 600
• Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series; Yale Agrarian Studies (Hardcov; Yale Agrarian Studies Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Food Industry, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Agriculture & Related Industries, Papua New Guinea