LEADER 04071oam 22004934a 450 001 9910524888603321 005 20240610181754.0 035 $a(CKB)4960000000012578 035 $a(OCoLC)1055463588 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse70587 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88672 035 $a(EXLCZ)994960000000012578 100 $a20180928d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBig-Men and Business$eEntrepreneurship and Economic Growth in the New Guinea Highlands /$fBen R. Finney ; foreword by Douglas L. Oliver 210 $cUniversity of Hawai'i Press$d2018 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2018 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (unpaged) $cillustrations 300 $a"An East-West Center book." 300 $aOriginally published: Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii, [1973]. 311 $a0-8248-8011-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aHigh in the New Guinea mountains a sociological drama of unique design has been unfolding since the early 1930s. At that time the first of the Europeans who would take part in the area's development trekked into the remote highlands. These early gold prospectors, patrol officers, and missionaries made the first outside contacts with the Stone Age Gorokan people. These encounters ultimately catapulted the Gorokans, subsistence gardeners cultivating sweet potatoes and raising pigs, squarely into the twentieth century. The magnitude of the economic and social changes that followed in the next forty years clearly distinguish the Gorokan case as one of the most remarkable examples of human adaptability to be witnessed in modern times. Although popular thinking has it that traditional societies are change-resistant and that social reforms therefore must precede economic and other types of development, the Gorokans, remarkably, reversed the process and passed from the Stone Age to the twentieth-century marketplace in one generation. Today they are heavily involved in growing coffee, they have developed their own trucking industry for transporting coffee and other cash crops to market, and they are venturing into the raising of beef cattle and the operation of trade stores and various businesses.Big-Men and Business is the record of this extraordinary case of economic change, based on field study conducted in 1967 and 1968. Dr. Finney interviewed many of the Gorokan leaders of this commercial revolution, and draws comparisons between the Gorokan experience and that of other New Guinean peoples.One of the results of his research indicates that the Gorokans may have been predisposed to entrepreneurship. Traditionally, a Gorokan "big-man" was the man who acquired the valuables of his society?cowrie shells, mother-of-pearl shells, pigs, and bird-of-paradise plumes. These leaders were honored for their skills in the flourishing local exchange system. This fact, coupled with a supportive colonial relationship and a favorable natural environment, enhanced the Gorokans' adaptation, and thus the leap from the world of traditional exchange to one where business is conducted on a cash basis was, in reality, a short step.Foreword by Douglas L. Oliver 606 $aEntrepreneurship$zPapua New Guinea$zGoroka District 606 $aEconomic anthropology$zPapua New Guinea$zGoroka District 606 $aEconomic development$zPapua New Guinea$zGoroka District 607 $aGoroka District (Papua New Guinea)$xSocial conditions 607 $aGoroka District (Papua New Guinea)$xEconomic conditions 610 $aDevelopment studies 615 0$aEntrepreneurship 615 0$aEconomic anthropology 615 0$aEconomic development 700 $aFinney$b Ben R.$01167482 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524888603321 996 $aBig-Men and Business$92719531 997 $aUNINA