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Yali's Question

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

Yali's Question

- Sugar, Culture, and History
Af: Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz Engelsk Paperback
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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: 9780226217468
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0226217469
Kategori: Social- & Kulturantropologi
Udg. Dato: 15 nov 2004
Længde: 2mm
Bredde: 15mm
Højde: 23mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 15 nov 2004
Forfatter(e): Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz
Forfatter(e) Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz

Kategori Social- & Kulturantropologi

ISBN-13 9780226217468

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 360

Udgave

Længde 2mm

Bredde 15mm

Højde 23mm

Udg. Dato 15 nov 2004

Oplagsdato 15 nov 2004

Forlag The University of Chicago Press