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ISBN: HB: 9780300142266

Yale University Press

December 2010

512 pp.

23.4x15.6 cm

172 black&white illus.

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From Land to Mouth

The Agricultural "Economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands

Offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalist economy to the subsistence-cum-exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley.

About the Author

Paul Sillitoe is professor in the anthropology department of Durham University, and Shell Chair of Sustainable Development at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.

Reviews

"Sillitoe provides rich ethnographic information on Wola agricultural systems... Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty, specialists" – R. Scaglion, Choice