Frederick Errington

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Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and HistoryPaperback, 15 November 2004

Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and History
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Part of Series
Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture
Part of Series
Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures (Paperback)
Print Length
360 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
15 Nov 2004
ISBN-10
0226217469
ISBN-13
9780226217468

Description

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.

Product Details

Authors:
Frederick ErringtonDeborah Gewertz
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 November 2004
Dimensions:
22.76 x 16.31 x 2.26 cm
ISBN-10:
0226217469
ISBN-13:
9780226217468
Language:
English
Location:
Chicago, IL
Pages:
360
Weight:
453.59 gm

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