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Feasting for oil palm
Social analysis • 10 • Published In 1982 • Pages: 63-78
By: Newton, Janice.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In the late twentieth century the Northern Province in Papua New Guinea became the focal point of a multi-million dollar program to produce unrefined cooking oil from palm oil trees. This paper describes the structural and subjective features of the so-called Oil Palm Scheme as it pertains to the villagers of Koropata in the Northern Province. The study '…puts oil palm in the context of a series of failed cash crops and suggests its possible influences on the individualisation of land tenure. The conceptions of Koropatans concerning the proposition for radical change are considered but the central point of the paper is the changing organisation of production within the village economy' (p. 63).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Economic planning and development
- Arboriculture
- Miscellaneous food processing and packing industries
- Production and supply
- Labor and leisure
- Mutual aid
- Clans
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Orokaiva
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1977-1979
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1977-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Koropata 2 Village, Northern Province, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- Janice Newton
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89657469
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Orokaiva (Papua New Guinea people)