LEADER 04322nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910812988803321 005 20240418005735.0 010 $a0-300-16295-2 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300162950 035 $a(CKB)2550000000105049 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022174764 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000704061 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11413246 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704061 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10705030 035 $a(PQKB)10851705 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000167158 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421006 035 $a(DE-B1597)486173 035 $a(OCoLC)861793307 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300162950 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421006 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579405 035 $a(OCoLC)923599678 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000105049 100 $a20100405d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom land to mouth $ethe agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands /$fPaul Sillitoe 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xx, 575 p.) ) $cill., maps 225 1 $aYale agrarian studies series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-14226-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [529]-559) and index. 327 $aThe 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?. 330 $aAmong the Wola people of Papua New Guinea, our category economy is problematic. Distribution is unnecessary; the producers of everyday needs are the consumers: produce goes largely "from land to mouth" - with no implication that resources are scarce. Yet transactions featuring valuable things -- which are scarce -- are a prominent aspect of life, where sociopolitical exchange figures prominently. The relationship -- or rather the disconnection -- between these two domains is central to understanding the fiercely egalitarian political-economy. In this detailed investigation of a Highland New Guinea agricultural 'economy' and acephalous political order-the most thorough inquiry into such a tropical subsistence farming system ever undertaken-esteemed anthropologist Paul Sillitoe interrogates the relevance of key economic ideas in noncapitalist contexts and challenges anthropological shibboleths such as the "gift." Furthermore, he makes a reactionary-cum-innovative contribution to research methods and analysis, drawing on advances in information technology to manage large data sets. Over a span of more than three decades, Sillitoe has compiled a huge body of ethnography, gaining unprecedented insights into Highlands' social, economic, and agricultural arrangements. He uses these here to illuminate economic thought in nonmarket contexts, advancing an integrated set of principles underpinning a stateless-subsistence order comparable to that of economists for the state-market. Sillitoe's insights have implications for economic development programs in regions where capitalist assumptions have limited relevance, following his advocacy of development interventions more respectful of existing social orders. 410 0$aYale agrarian studies. 517 3 $aAgricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands 606 $aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects$zPapua New Guinea 606 $aWola (Papua New Guinean people)$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aWola (Papua New Guinean people)$xEconomic conditions. 676 $a338.1089/9912 700 $aSillitoe$b Paul$f1949-$01348880 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812988803321 996 $aFrom land to mouth$94018623 997 $aUNINA