From Land to Mouth: The Agricultural Economy of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands [With DVD]

by Paul Sillitoe

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 --...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300142269
• ISBN13: 9780300142266
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.5"