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Feasting for oil palm
Social analysis • 10 • Published In 1982 • Pages: 63-78
By: Newton, Janice.
Abstract
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).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2004
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Melanesia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field Date
- 1977-1979
- Coverage Date
- 1977-1979
- Coverage Place
- Koropata 2 Village, Northern Province, Papua New Guinea
- Notes
- Janice Newton
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78)
- LCCN
- 89657469
- LCSH
- Orokaiva (Papua New Guinea people)