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Yali's question : sugar, culture, and history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Errington, Frederick Karl
Other Authors: Gewertz, Deborah B., 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Series:Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 2002.
Subjects:
Ramu Sugar Limited.
Sugarcane industry > Papua New Guinea.
Social responsibility of business > Papua New Guinea > Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On avoiding a history of the self-evident and the self-interested
  • What do they (should they) want?
  • Factories in fact and fancy
  • The peopling of a place and the placing of people
  • Clansman, family man, and family-of-man man at RSL
  • The life of expatriates: setting the standards
  • Replacing expatriates with Papua New Guineans
  • On landowners, outgrowers--and just a little respect
  • On the road, Mari style
  • Hewers of wood and drawers of water
  • Conclusion: On listening.