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Yali's Question

- Sugar, Culture, and History
Af: Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz Engelsk Hardback

Yali's Question

- Sugar, Culture, and History
Af: Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz Engelsk Hardback
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Yali's Question is the story of a remarkable physical and social creation—Ramu Sugar Limited (RSL), a sugar plantation created in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. As an embodiment of imported industrial production, RSL's smoke-belching, steam-shrieking factory and vast fields of carefully tended sugar cane contrast sharply with the surrounding grassland. RSL not only dominates the landscape, but also shapes those culturally diverse thousands who left their homes to work there. To understand the creation of such a startling place, Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz explore the perspectives of the diverse participants that had a hand in its creation. In examining these views, they also consider those of Yali, a local Papua New Guinean political leader. Significantly, Yali features not only in the story of RSL, but also in Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize winning world history Guns, Germs, and Steel—a history probed through its contrast with RSL's. The authors' disagreement with Diamond stems, not from the generality of his focus and the specificity of theirs, but from a difference in view about how history is made—and from an insistence that those with power be held accountable for affecting history.
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Yali's Question is the story of a remarkable physical and social creation—Ramu Sugar Limited (RSL), a sugar plantation created in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. As an embodiment of imported industrial production, RSL's smoke-belching, steam-shrieking factory and vast fields of carefully tended sugar cane contrast sharply with the surrounding grassland. RSL not only dominates the landscape, but also shapes those culturally diverse thousands who left their homes to work there. To understand the creation of such a startling place, Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz explore the perspectives of the diverse participants that had a hand in its creation. In examining these views, they also consider those of Yali, a local Papua New Guinean political leader. Significantly, Yali features not only in the story of RSL, but also in Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize winning world history Guns, Germs, and Steel—a history probed through its contrast with RSL's. The authors' disagreement with Diamond stems, not from the generality of his focus and the specificity of theirs, but from a difference in view about how history is made—and from an insistence that those with power be held accountable for affecting history.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 360
ISBN-13: 9780226217451
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0226217450
Udg. Dato: 15 nov 2004
Længde: 3mm
Bredde: 16mm
Højde: 24mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 15 nov 2004
Forfatter(e) Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz


Kategori Social- & Kulturantropologi


ISBN-13 9780226217451


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 360


Udgave


Længde 3mm


Bredde 16mm


Højde 24mm


Udg. Dato 15 nov 2004


Oplagsdato 15 nov 2004


Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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