Yali's Question

Name: Yali's Question
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226217468
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Sugar, Culture, and History

Szerző: F. Errington

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: The University of Chicago Press

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"Yali's Question" is the story of a remarkable physical and social creation--Ramu Sugar Limited (RSL...

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Szerző

F. Errington

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2004

oldal

360

EAN

9780226217468

ISBN

0226217469

Enbook ID

04544528

Kiadó

The University of Chicago Press

Súly

444

Méretek

154 x 228 x 23

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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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