Peasants, Subsistence Ecology, and Development in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Grossman, Lawrence S.

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“…The Tairora data from the Kainantu region (Grossman 1984a) show what happens when cash crops arrive, the unequal distribution of subsistence activities between the sexes is offset by a reverse contribution to cash cropping and waged labour outside the village by men (although it is probable that women were not responsible for so many subsistence activities in pre-cash crop times). A similar reversal has been documented for Huli speakers (Umezaki et al 2002).…”

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What Labour Engenders1: Women and Men, Time and Work in the New Guinea Highlands

Sillitoe¹

2006

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Debates over equality in New Guinea have raged for years. While people may subscribe to egalitarian values, this seems hollow to some observers in the context of relations between women and men, notably the sexual division of labour. Some even talk of men exploiting the labour of women. This paper considers the validity of these claims in the Was valley of the Southern Highlands Province, using data collected in a time-budget survey conducted to document and assess differences between women"s and men"s activities. It also reviews ideas of time expended undertaking any activity, and the relevance of notions of work and labour to people"s daily routines. It questions the propriety of introducing the capitalism"s preoccupation with labour. Differences in the activities of women and men far from evidencing relations of inequality are significant for such stateless political orders in eschewing hierarchical arrangements, where no one exercises control over resources or capital needed by others to secure livelihoods.

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Sillitoe¹

2006

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

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“…In this regard, the Gavien project is similar to the situation in Taita, Kenya where laborers on a sisal estate have continued to produce staple foods for home consumption and apparently have not suffered a decline in nutritional status (Fleuret and Fleuret, 1982). In neither case do we see the common "subsistence malaise", a decrease in subsistence agriculture in favor of NUTRITIONAL STATUS, NEW GUINEA 53 cash cropping and purchase of imported foods, so well articulated by Grossman in describing the highlands of Papua New Guinea (Grossman, 1984). The research presented here illustrates that agricultural development projects based on cash cropping need not decrease nutritional status if both food and income requirements are met.…”

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Effects of resettlement on nutritional status of mothers and children in lowland Papua new Guinea

Shack

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Dewey

1990

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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Nutritional status of three ethnic groups living at Gavien, a rubber resettlement project in lowland Papua New Guinea, was compared with that of people living in the home areas: Grass Country (hunter-gatherers); Wosera (agriculturalists); Middle Sepik (hunter-gatherers with limited agriculture).Anthropometry of mothers (n=115) and children (n=115) was completed during wet and dry seasons. Blood samples were collected to identify anemia and malarial infection.Grass Country children in Gavien were higher in weight-for-age and weight-for-height than their home area counterparts. Wosera children at Gavien were taller than their counterparts. In contrast, Middle Sepik children showed no improvement in Gavien. Hemoglobin and hematocrit were generally lower among mothers and children in the home areas and malarial parasite rates were higher.The group that benefited most from resettlement was agriculturalists, who were crowded at home and had cultivation skills necessary for growing food and cash crops. Resettlement was less beneficial for hunter-gatherer groups unaccustomed to agriculture.

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“…These practices have tried to insulate domestic, particularly smallholding, growers from rapidly fluctuating, then declining, international prices. Insulation has been necessary to stop households in occupation of land retreating from (capitalist) commodity production into non-capitalist forms [Grossman, 1984;Overfield, 1994]. !0 Price subsidies and other state practices also have tried to quell rural disorder and check the movement of unemployed into towns [for another country, Kenya, in which the post-colonial state has tried to use smallholdings as 'a labour sponge' see Livingstone, 1986].…”

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‘Just like working for the dole’: Rural households, export crops and state subsidies in Papua New Guinea

MacWilliam

1996

Journal of Peasant Studies

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Peasants, Subsistence Ecology, and Development in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

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What Labour Engenders1: Women and Men, Time and Work in the New Guinea Highlands

What Labour Engenders1: Women and Men, Time and Work in the New Guinea Highlands

Effects of resettlement on nutritional status of mothers and children in lowland Papua new Guinea

‘Just like working for the dole’: Rural households, export crops and state subsidies in Papua New Guinea

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