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From land to mouth: the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands.

This book builds on over 30 years’ research. It is 575 pages and 180,000 words long (200,000 with preface, appendices & refs). It has 3 maps, 41 figures and 69 tables. Considerable original field data is analyzed, including garden surveys (mapping and inventories of 677 swiddens), population censuses (conducted over 25 years) and time budget data (tracking daily activities of 12 men & 12 women over three months). The research was particularly complex, involving the integrated analysis of a huge volume of ethnographic material and an extensive regional literature, to support an original interpretation of Highland New Guinea political economy.