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Professor Paul Sillitoe's Outputs (3)

After the 'affluent society' : cost of living in the Papua New Guinea highlands according to time and energy expenditure- income (2002)
Journal Article
Sillitoe, P. (2002). After the 'affluent society' : cost of living in the Papua New Guinea highlands according to time and energy expenditure- income. Journal of Biosocial Science, 34(4), 433-461. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932002004339

What is the cost of living in the Papua New Guinea highlands? An answer is sought using a time and energy accounting approach. The subsistence regime of Wola-speaking highlanders, the subjects of this investigation, comprises three components. The pr... Read More about After the 'affluent society' : cost of living in the Papua New Guinea highlands according to time and energy expenditure- income.

Horticulture in Papua New Guinea: Case Studies from the Southern and Western Highlands (2002)
Book
Sillitoe, P., Stewart, P., & Strathern, A. (2002). Horticulture in Papua New Guinea: Case Studies from the Southern and Western Highlands. University of Pittsburgh

This monograph provides a range of materials on subsistence gardening practices in different parts of the highlands region of Papua New Guinea. It consists of one main case study executed in considerable depth of detail on a single people, the Wola,... Read More about Horticulture in Papua New Guinea: Case Studies from the Southern and Western Highlands.