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From Land to Mouth: The Agricultural "Economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands

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From Land to Mouth: The Agricultural Economy of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands - Sillitoe, Paul, Professor
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Among the Wola people of Papua New Guinea, our category economy is problematic. Distribution is unnecessary; the producers of everyday needs are the consumers: produce goes largely "from land to mouth" - with no implication that resources are scarce. Yet transactions featuring valuable things -- which are scarce -- are a prominent aspect of life, where sociopolitical exchange figures prominently. The relationship -- or rather the disconnection -- between these two domains is central to understanding the fiercely egalitarian ...

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From Land to Mouth: The Agricultural Economy of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands 2010, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300142266

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